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Financial Advisor March 2005 Tracey Longo	The Watchdog Inside Your Firm The SEC is making your chief compliance officer a whistleblower. Advisors' success with regulators in 2005 will depend largely on whether they trip themselves up or are able to create a business model that is better aligned with their clients.
Financial Advisor January 2012 Brian Hamburger	Who Will Start The Revolution? Big firms give "Big Brother" nod to social media.
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