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  Milevsky: What Is Your Financial Legacy – Today?

  By Moshe A. Milevsky  |  May 24, 2012

  In the beginning, life insurance was perceived as just another gamble, or a game of chance, involving three parties.

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  A Strategy for Affording College

  By Kent Smetters  |  April 25, 2012

  Faced with massive budget deficits, state legislators across the country are looking to chop college education funding to fill the gaps.

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  Top 20 Colleges in Fundraising: Who’s Best at Tapping Alumni?

  By Michael S. Fischer  |  March 8, 2012

  U.S. colleges raised $30.3 billion in 2011, an increase of 8.2% over a year earlier, according to the annual Voluntary Support of Education survey by the Council for Aid to Education.

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  Taxes & Inequality: Shiller’s Plan to Fix Tax Code

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  March 7, 2012

  Yale economist Robert Shiller says he and a colleague have studied “inequality indexation” with the objective of showing how more complex systems of tax rates might work.

• The Client. The Client. The Client.

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  March 1, 2012

  The last words of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur’s farewell speech at West Point went like this: “…when I cross the river, my last conscious thoughts will be of the Corps, the Corps, the Corps.”

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  Ivy League All-Star Investment Team: At Point Guard, Jeremy Lin

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  February 16, 2012

  Consider: If advisors act as asset allocation point guards for their clients, which Ivy Leaguers would you want on your team?

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  Why Schapiro’s ‘Business-Model Neutral’ Fiduciary Approach Shouldn’t Be News

  By Knut A. Rostad  |  December 12, 2011

  Despite the ruckus over SEC Chairman Schapiro's comments on a 'business-model neutral' fiduciary standard, it shouldn't be a big deal if SEC rule-making remains true to Dodd-Frank and the plain meaning of its plain language.

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  Former FrontPoint Hedge Fund Manager Gets 5 Years for Insider Trading

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  November 18, 2011

  On Friday, Dr. Joseph 'Chip' Skowron, former FrontPoint Partners hedge fund manager, got the bad news: he was sentenced to five years in prison for his part in an insider trading scheme. He also was fined and ordered to pay restitution.

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  Top 10 Terrible Predictions About Economy

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  November 11, 2011

  On 11/11/11, while the world still exists despite some predictions otherwise, a review by AdvisorOne of 10 terrible predictions about the markets and the economy.

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  Top 10 Richest Colleges for 2011: The Biggest Endowments

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  October 24, 2011

  Some surprises on the endowment front, and some non-surprises. Ivy League schools dominate the list with Harvard's haul nearly double its arch-rival's