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UN urges world to eat more insects to fight hunger
By Staff WriterYummy: pizza toppings that once hopped, flew, slithered or crawled.
May 09, 2013
Best Full-Service Investment Firms Ranked by Investors: J.D. Power—2013The satisfaction scores of some BDs is lower than might be expected based on reported performance alone, according to J.D. Power.
May 09, 2013
Advisors More Likely to Switch Firms With Family’s ApprovalMemo to recruiters: A focus on the financial advantages of switching firms may ultimately be less effective than demonstrating how a move might improve the advisors work-life balance.
May 09, 2013
Video: LeRoy Carhart says he’ll perform “purely elective” abortions on healthy viable babies in MarylandHe says he draws the line at 24 weeks but was caught on camera saying something completely different.
May 08, 2013
Is Schwab’s Arbitration Win Really a Loss?There's much backlash in Washington over Schwab's successful rebuttal of a FINRA challenge to its expanded mandatory arbitration clause.
May 07, 2013
Advisor headcount to decline through 2016A study pegs the number of advisors in 2016 at 298,000, down from an estimated 309,000 at year-end 2012.
May 07, 2013
Middle-Age White Guys Need Not Apply: AIG’s Advisor Group Diversifies RecruitmentThe traditional image of the wirehouse-trained advisor serving strictly HNW white males is giving way as women challenge assumptions about who the average investor is.
May 06, 2013
Advisor Group Unveils Initiative to Help Women Advisors Grow Their PracticeThe AIG-owned Advisor Group is putting its power behind an initiative to help women advisors grow their business in an admittedly "male-dominated industry."