Cutting back
The Advisor Group, the IBD owned by AIG, laid off employees this week. Sources outside the company said the lion's share of the layoffs came from Woodbury Financial Services.
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Ameriprise and four other IBDs agreed to pay fines and restitution in a deal with Massachusetts securities cop William Galvin. The state's action is the latest in a series of crackdowns on the sale of nontraded REITs.
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It's good times in the nontraded REIT industry. The lastest sign: ARCP boss Nick Schorsch plans to stage yet another 'liquidity' event — this time, taking a REIT brokerage public.
New normal is morphing, Pimco's El-Erian says
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The global economy is muddling along a road that will give way to one of three stark alternatives, he contends
So where are all the revolutionary new investment theories?
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Not even Gross, Gundlach immune to bond gloom
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Investors, beware: housing market still has cracks
1,449 views | May 22, 2013
Investors should take note: the housing market still has its issues, notably rising mortgage delinquency rates for some homebuyers.
Fidelity: Bond fears overblown
1,414 views | May 23, 2013
Rates are rising but there's no big catalyst to drive big losses.

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