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Issue Date: February 12, 2012

News

Will Facebook 'friend' IPO market?

By Andrew Osterland

Like other hot technology companies that have gone public before it, Facebook may give the IPO market a much-needed boost. The giant social network, which was founded in a Harvard dorm room in 2004, said Feb. 1 that it will offer $5 billion worth of shares to the public in the near

technology

Finra is expected to issue investor alert on nontraded BDCs

By Bruce Kelly

Securities regulators are taking a close and careful look at a fast-growing alternative investment known as a nontraded business development company. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. could issue a nontraded BDC investor alert notice by the end of next month,

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)

Nally promises to continue RIA advocacy efforts at TD

By Dan Jamieson

It was a baton pass that saddened many financial advisers and irked others because of its timing. TD Ameritrade said last week that Tom Bradley, the much admired head of its institutional business, would be leaving that position to take the reins of the company's retail-brokerage

Public colleges may be the ticket, advisers tell clients

Reforms would hurt money funds, critics charge

Seeking out yield in a no-yield world

U.C. students propose a 20-year tuition plan

Capital Analysts bought by Lincoln Investment Planning

Cheaper mortgages offer planning opportunity

LPL is gunning for hotshot reps

Merrill team jumps ship, signs with Focus Financial

Clients with Alzheimer's pose 'scary' legal risks

Local banks go big, stay small to win clients

James Gorman: Market doesn't "understand' Smith Barney deal

Berkowitz's Fairholme Fund back on top to start the year

Saving retirement saving

B-Ds just say "go' to Obama

White's "hot' pitch

Editorial

SEC must go slow on money fund reform

A week after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said that prudent savers could expect no relief from the Fed's low-interest-rate policy until at least 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission is threatening to make things even tougher for savers.The SEC is planning to propose