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It's a big happy family for Hartford Mutual Funds, which announced today five new additions to its team.

3D Asset Management is giving its operations team a boost with a series of promotions.

In the most recent move by a large firm to help planners solve pressing succession issues, Cetera Advisor Networks is now offering its regional directors, s well as other small- to mid-sized broker dealers, the opportunity to sell their businesses to Cetera.

Advisors anticipate some additional tax questions and continued concern for clients in the high net worth bracket.

Sandip Bhagat has resigned as head of Vanguard’s Equity Investment Group, according to a regulatory filing.

Morningstar named its 2012 U.S. Fund Manager of the Year award winners in the allocation, alternatives, domestic stock, international stock, and fixed income categories.

After another year of record low municipal bond interest rates, next year is expected to see a slight increase in yields, according to municipal research analysts.

Flows to muni bond mutual funds, though still negative, recovered much of their lost ground over the previous two weeks.

The RIA sector drastically outpaced the growth rate of the rest of the financial services industry in the past year, growing at 13% versus 1.3%, according to research from Cerulli & Associates. For our annual RIA Leaders report, Financial Planning ran the numbers to look at the 50 fastest-growing fee-only RIA firms for 2012.

William Frels and Mark Henneman, who run the $2.5 billion Mairs & Power Growth Fund, were named domestic stock-fund managers of the year by Morningstar Inc.