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Gallery: Ten Advisors Who Give Back

From helping former slaves in Nepal to putting out fires in Texas, Wealthmanagement.com has selected these ten advisors whose charitable efforts go beyond simply writing a check.

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  • May 13, 2013
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    Q&A: Morgan Stanley’s King of Tweets

    Morgan Stanley wealth advisor Mark Scribner’s Twitter seems to have mastered a social media strategy with nearly 10,000 followers @scribnergroupMS. How does he do it? We dove in for details....More
  • May 10, 2013
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    Money on the Move in May

    A Missouri brokerage expands its reach with new offices in Florida and Alabama, while a Colorado-based banking firm builds out a new brokerage division....More
  • May 8, 2013
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    Druckenmiller Criticizes Fed Easing, says to Short Australian Dollar  

    Stanley Druckenmiller, founder of former hedge fund Duquesne Capital, criticized the U.S. Federal Reserve's monetary policy on Wednesday and recommended betting against the Australian dollar....More
  • May 8, 2013
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    New Book Teaches Children ABCs of Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway  

    Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc invests in dozens of businesses, and a new book tries to explain it all to young readers, from A to Z....More
  • Apr. 29, 2013
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    Aide to the Hearing Impaired: Richard S. Brown

    About two years ago, at a banquet where he received an award for his work on the board of the Minnesota Special Olympics, Richard Brown met the cofounder of the Starkey Hearing Foundation and CEO of Starkey Hearing Technologies....More
  • Apr. 29, 2013
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    A Mother’s Mission: Shelly Church

    As tragic as that was, it inspired her. She organized fundraising walks around her home of Naples, Fla., and ran the local chapter of the American Heart Association....More
  • Apr. 29, 2013
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    Putting Out Fires: Shawn Babendure

    “Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be a firefighter,” says Shawn Babendure. Instead, he became a financial advisor, overseeing $152 million for clients with UBS in The Woodlands, a suburban development north of Houston....More
  • Apr. 29, 2013
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    Charter School Trailblazer: Michael Brown

    Michael Brown grew up in the middle-class town of Paramus, N.J., where the high school graduation rate was about 98 percent and taxpayer dollars funded a high-quality public education system....More
  • Apr. 29, 2013
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    Think Locally, Act Globally: Margaret Graff

    IN a small village a half an hour off the main road in Nepal is where Margaret Graff came face to face with the horror stories. Young women told her of being taken from their families and forced to work for pennies in brothels and circuses in India....More
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