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Do your clients really need long-term care insurance?

Plus: Hedge funds load up on GM stock, Greenspan calls Bitcoin a bubble, JPMorgan confirms cardholders were hacked, and Britain gets bullish

By Jeff Benjamin

Dec 5, 2013 @ 8:30 am (Updated 9:00 am) EST

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Do your clients really need long-term care insurance, or is it just an easy and profitable sale? A skeptic's view
More than 450 hedge funds bought shares of GM during the third quarter. Stock price expected to jump 40% in 12-to-18 months
Digging deep for the best-stocks in the best sectors. 70% of conglomerate stocks trading near 52-week highs
Former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan is raining on the Bitcoin parade, calling it a bubble without any intrinsic currency value. Virtual money isn't currency
JPMorgan says the personal information of nearly half a million customers might have been hacked. Web site was breached in September
Britain's new growth projections make it one of the world's fastest-growing advanced economies. But the U.K. economy is still smaller than it was before the financial crisis

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Jeff Benjamin covers investment strategies in his award-winning column, Investment Insights, and also dives deep into the minds of leading portfolio managers in his regular column, Portfolio Manager Perspectives.

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