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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

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  As Academic Research Shows, Disclosure Fails to Protect Investors From Advisors’ Conflicts

  By Knut A. Rostad  |  September 22, 2011

  Just listen to Yale Management Professor Daylian Cain's sobering view: “Conflicts of interest are a cancer on objectivity. Even well-meaning advisors often cannot overcome a conflict and give objective advice."

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  Personal Spending Surges Even as Confidence Sinks: News Analysis

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  August 29, 2011

  What matters more: consumers’ actual spending or an intangible general mood based on survey data?

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  New Institute to Educate, Advocate on Fiduciary Standard

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  August 23, 2011

  Led by Knut Rostad, a group of advisors and industry leaders form a permanent fiduciary education, research and advocacy think tank.

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  Shiller Warns of Double-Dip Home Price Drop, ‘New Recession’

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  June 9, 2011

  The housing market is in for more losses, and that the bubble that preceded its unprecedented drop was "unique in U.S. history," Robert Shiller, Yale professor of economics and author of "Irrational Exuberance," said Thursday at Standard & Poor’s Housing Summit 2011: Boom, Bust and Beyond on Thursday.

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  Hedge Funds, Mavens of Risk, Grab Newest Hot Investment: Farmland

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 19, 2011

  From staid economists to hedge fund socialites, farmland is today's must-have alternative investment. Yet higher rental rates are keeping a lid on P/E ratios.

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  Yale’s Robert Shiller Says Confidence Crisis Hampers Economy: IMCA Conference

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 16, 2011

  Trying to explain the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, Shiller — best known as co-creator of the Case-Shiller Home Price Index — told an audience of some 2,000 financial advisors meeting in Las Vegas that a lack of confidence lies at the root of current economic weakness.

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  The Myth of Growth

  By Alexei Bayer  |  October 1, 2010

  Over the past two years, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has been one of the most vocal and noticeable advocates...

• Reawakening the Dragon

  By Kenneth Silber, Research  |  August 1, 2010

  China's stock market was born in the 19th century, abolished and reborn in the 20th century and in the first decade of the 21st has...