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T. Rowe notes that most emerging market countries are politically stable. Barclays predicts a global round of deficit-cutting and notes that demand for oil continues to soar. A Rogers Casey analysis finds that “best ideas” portfolios aren’t worth the extra risk. Keefe, Bruyette & Woods notes an increase in banks that exceeded estimates this quarter. Vanguard sees the U.S. recovery continuing.

Total client focus is the key to success as a fee-only financial advisor, according to Irwin Gross, a wealth coach and one of the founders of Family Wealth Partners, a firm in Weston, Fla.

Exchange-traded funds are likely to grab a “significant” share of the 401(k) market in coming years, according to Skip Schweiss, president of TD Ameritrade Trust Co.

Stifel Nicolaus has now added 46 new offices since 2007 as it pushes for a greater presence in the Western U.S.

Eighty-five percent of buy-side firms are unprepared for regulatory changes, a survey by MoneyMate, a data management firm, found.

The Egyptian stock market shut down Jan. 27, with street protests leading eventually to the overthrow of the government led for more than three decades by Hosni Mubarak. The question? When would the market re-open? And what would happen to the securities that American and other foreign institutions thought they owned?

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Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has revamped the leadership structure for its wealth management business, according to an internal memo sent by the firm's Global Wealth Management President Greg Fleming.

If asset managers want to reach and appear relevant to the 51 million Generation X and 80 million Generation Y populations, they must actively post "remarkable and fresh content" on the three biggest social media outlets: LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. No question about it. That was the message from Barbara Kotlyar, senior marketing manager of data aggregator ByAllAccounts, and Loic Jeanjean, director of web marketing at financial services Internet design firm Advisor Websites, during a recent Web seminar, "Attracting Gen X & Y Clients With Social Media."

FINRA has fined Jefferies & Co. $1.5 million, ordered the investment bank to repay $425,000 in ill-gotten commissions and fees and suspended a pair of its brokers for failing to disclose additional compensation to institutional clients and other conflicts of interest related to shady sales of auction rate securities between August 2007 and March 2008.