<b>The Takeaway:</b> Wall Street re-friends Facebook

Portfolio

And now everybody loves Facebook again.  (MoneyBeat)

EMC joins the buyback explosion.  (TechTrader)

Who says we don’t do R&D anymore – Repurchases and Dividends, baby!  (The Reformed Broker)

The Biz

There are things that you can control about your practice and things that you can’t. What would like to focus on?  (The Big Picture)

Slideshow: SMAs of the year 2013.  (AdvisorOne)

Morgan Stanley goes after top producers who jumped to Stifel. It’s on now.  (WealthManagement)

Jamie D drops a blog post on LinkedIn about where the U.S. is competitively.  (LinkedIn)

Outliers

Former hedge funder tells all – cocaine, prostitutes, secret apartment hideaways and other alpha-creating activities.  (New York Post)

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