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  Week’s Top Portfolio Products: AdvisorShares Launches Sustainable ETF

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  May 25, 2012

  New products introduced over the last week include a new sustainable ETF from AdvisorShares and Philippe Cousteau and a covered bond ETF from ProShares.

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  E.U. Leaders Still Disagree as Crisis Simmers

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  May 25, 2012

  Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany met with resistance at home to her austerity-only position even as Prime Minister Mario Monti of Italy gave a different account of Wednesday’s summit meeting than was offered by the Luxembourg prime minister, Jean-Claude Juncker.

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  Carving Out an Indie Niche; Boosting Client Communication: June Research—Slideshow

  By Editorial Staff  |  May 25, 2012

  The cover story of Research magazine's June issue, "Exploring Independence," looks at how ex-wirehouse advisors are carving out distinctive niches to build successful advisory practices.

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  10 Key Issues to Watch in China’s Future

  By John Sullivan, Advisorone  |  May 24, 2012

  Audience members at the “Best of IMCA” seminar series in Denver were once again reminded that they’ll soon report to their Chinese overlords.

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  CBO Says Fiscal Cliff Looms, but Decisions Not Likely Till Precipice Appears

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 24, 2012

  The CBO makes the point that if Congress cannot find some way to arrest policies that are already set in motion before the new year, the U.S. will lapse back into a recession in 2013.

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  Xi Jinping: The 2012 IA 25 Extended Profile

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  May 24, 2012

  Not familiar with Mr. Xi? You will become so, for Xi Jinping is likely to become the new leader of the country

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  By Alexei Bayer  |  May 24, 2012

  Classical economic theory suggests that consumers and businesses, responding to market signals such as prices and interest rates, collectively spend, save or invest their money in the most efficient manner.

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  Who Writes a 51-Page Client Questionnaire?

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 23, 2012

  The Center for Plain Language honored good communicators with its ClearMark awards, but also extended its booby prize, the WonderMark award, for writing that could utterly confuse a reader.

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  8 Fastest Growing Financial Services Jobs

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  May 23, 2012

  AdvisorOne sifts through data from the BLS to find eight of the fastest growing jobs in this sector from 2010 to 2020.

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  Bull Kiesel, Bear Shilling Clash Over Housing

  By John Sullivan, Advisorone  |  May 23, 2012

  "If housing goes down 20%, I will back up the truck and likely PIMCO will, too," Kiesel says. Shilling predicts "recessionary kinds of things" in the next three to four years.