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September 2, 2010

Fiduciary standard's biggest critic? Insurance agents

By Bloomberg

The staunchest opposition to a universal fiduciary standard that would put clients’ interests first isn’t from securities brokers. It’s from insurance agents, comments to the Securities and Exchange Commission show.

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September 2, 2010

Beware of wealthy clients' 'impossible demands': Barclays

By Bloomberg

The world’s richest clients often come with “impossible demands,” push margins down and cause internal conflict with investment banking colleagues, said the vice chairman of Barclays Plc’s wealth management unit.

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September 1, 2010

Advisers up in arms over The Hartford's VA 'exchange' letter

By Darla Mercado

Financial advisers are fuming over a letter The Hartford sent to clients which entices them to swap their variable annuities for a replacement. Why so angry? Advisers say the new VA actually strips away generous guarantees.

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September 1, 2010

One key to being a million-dollar producer? Dumping smaller clients, survey finds

By Lisa Shidler

It may ruin a friendship. It may smack of snobbery. It'll probably come across as cruel, insensitive and heartless. But financial advisers who truly want to build their practices need to dump many of their small clients.

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September 1, 2010

Industry groups weigh in — and then some — on fiduciary provision

By Mark Schoeff Jr.

It appears the SEC will be sorting through its mail for some time.

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September 1, 2010

Five things you didn't know about advisers' use of insurance

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September 1, 2010

New: Investors defrauded out of an estimated $9B in 2010 cases

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September 1, 2010

Stocks start September with 2%-plus surge

By Bloomberg

U.S. stocks rose the most in almost two months as better-than-estimated growth in American and Chinese manufacturing bolstered confidence in the global economic recovery.

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September 1, 2010

Provident Royalties exec pleads guilty in $485M fraud

By Bruce Kelly

One of the owners of the defunct oil and gas dealmaker Provident Royalties LLC has pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud investors in a $485 million scheme that ensnared dozens of independent broker-dealers.

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September 1, 2010

Major U.S. bank cutting fees on checking accounts

By Bloomberg News

Citigroup Inc. will halve the minimum balance on checking accounts with the highest level of service, in a push to get more customers to use the bank for their primary accounts.

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September 1, 2010

Eaton Vance, MainStay likely to skirt a Harrisburg hit

By Jessica Toonkel

Default, dear Brutus, is in Pennsylvania, as capital city will miss payment on bond; Ambac to cover

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September 1, 2010

Jobs: The latest listings in the financial advisory biz

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September 1, 2010

Advisers’ favorite ETF provider is Vanguard: survey

By Jessica Toonkel

The Vanguard Group Inc. has edged out BlackRock Inc.’s iShares as advisers’ most trusted exchange-traded fund provider, according to a survey released by Cogent Research.

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September 1, 2010

Advisers on the Move: Summit snags Wells Fargo rep

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September 1, 2010

IN's Cooper: Interest rates do the limbo rock

By Evan Cooper

Those of us who remember Chubby Checker in his prime (if you're wondering, he's still alive and will be twisting at the Topsfield Fair in Topsfield, Mass., and the Georgia National Fair in Perry, Ga., in October) probably can recall one of his lesser hits, “Limbo Rock.”

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