Market & Economy

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Financial Advisor September 2012 Evan Simonoff	Marx, Lenin And Hoover Two serious thinkers -- online newsletter editor John Mauldin and DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach offer their perspectives on what's wrong around the world at the third annual Innovative Alternative Strategies conference in Denver.
Financial Advisor September 2012 Nick Murray	Mister Dow 5,000 Strikes Again! Mr. William Gross is not the first high-profile person to herald the death of equities; he will not be the last. Such pronouncements are always wrong, and much more often than not they actually signal the imminence of an era of excellent returns.
Financial Advisor September 2012 Mitch Anthony	Less Is More That philosophy is taking hold in our culture and may make people happier. The bigger, better, more ideology played no small part in getting our economy to this place, and I suspect it will be a more contented and realistic ideology that will bring us back to solid footing.
Financial Planning September 1, 2012	Retirement Advisor Confidence Index: New Index Tracks Advisory Sector The Retirement Advisor Confidence Index is a monthly barometer of business conditions for the wealth management sector. The initial reading of 48.7% shows a modest contraction in business activity
On Wall Street September 1, 2012 Elizabeth Wine	Predicting the Presidential Election with the Rise in the S&P 500 With a few months to go in the presidential campaign, pundits are poring over every scrap of new economic data-notably, unemployment-for a clue as to whether President Barack Obama will be reelected. But the best predictor, many say, is the stock market.
On Wall Street September 1, 2012 Matthew Lemieux	Market Uncertainty Drives Investors Toward Index-Based Equity Funds European sovereign debt concerns and the U.S. debt-ceiling debacle spurred market volatility, pushing investors toward index-based equity funds.
On Wall Street September 1, 2012 John Diehl	New Insight Can Help Dividend-Oriented Investors Make Better Decisions Political wrangling over the so-called fiscal cliff, the potential expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts coupled with sharp reductions in federal spending, has stimulated many a conversation about the resulting financial planning implications.
Financial Planning September 1, 2012 Frank O'Connor	Variable Annuity Issuers Go Back to Basics After the Financial Crisis After the economic crisis, VA issuers go back to the basics, designing new products intended to avoid volatility and basis risk.
Financial Planning September 1, 2012 Craig L. Israelsen	Should Investors Avoid Fixed Income Securities When Interest Rates Rise? Why not test the conventional wisdom that investors should avoid fixed-income securities when interest rates rise?
Registered Rep. August 29, 2012 David Geracioti	Editor's Letter: A Contrarian Changes His Mind Malthus predicted death from starvation because of a want of food. Farms are fewer, but food is abundant. To me, there is no such thing as a limited resource. As one money manager told me, the time to invest is when you won't want to.
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