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Financial Planning November 1, 2010 Marion Asnes	The Influencers Please join me in a heartfelt congratulations to all of our 2010 Financial Planning Influencer Award winners. We hope to award you next year.
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Investment Advisor August 2007 Bob Clark	Genius, Pure Genius Fake studies with unsound data and faulty conclusions put people who are trying to do the right thing on the wrong track. The problem is that for over a hundred years, the financial services industry has gotten away with a fraud: acting like "advisors" but being compensated as salespeople.
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