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• No Risk of Higher Interest Rates This Year: Pro

  

  Prognostications that there's a bond bubble ready to burst look overstated, said one panelist at the TD Ameritrade conference in San Diego on Friday.

• ‘Great Rotation’ Talk Is Premature: Bond Fund Managers

  

  Even though stock indices are climbing, some analysts say expectations for a "Great Rotation" out of bond funds into equities look premature because economic growth remains sluggish and interest rates remain low.

• Tax Reform Will Be a 'Death Struggle': Alan Simpson

  

  Congress has done the easy part of deficit and debt reduction, but the more difficult decisions on controlling health care costs, reforming the tax code and fixing entitlements still lie ahead, Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles told the TD Ameritrade conference on Friday.

• How to Fix the Debt Problem 

  

  Insight on America's debt crisis, with Erskine Bowles, Campaign to Fix the Debt; Alan Simpson, Campaign to Fix the Debt; and CNBC's John Harwood.

• Tackling the Debt 

  

  Insight on the U.S. fiscal situation and whether sequester will happen, with Erskine Bowles, Campaign to Fix the Debt; Alan Simpson, Campaign to Fix the Debt; and CNBC's John Harwood.

• Malcolm Gladwell: A Generational Tipping Point Is Coming

  

  There's a seismic generational shift underway as more and more of the millennial generation enter the workforce, author Malcolm Gladwell said in a presentation at the TD Ameritrade conference on Thursday.

• Invest in Food, Fuels and Forests as Global Population Grows: Fund Manager

  

  Commodity stocks in the food, timber and infrastructure sectors look attractive for 2013, Mike Underhill, founder and chief investment officer of Capital Innovations, told CNBC at the TDAmeritrade Institutional conference on Thursday. Plus, his equity picks.

• This Could Be a Huge Bull Market: Bernstein

  

  This could be the biggest U.S. bull market of our careers, Richard Bernstein of Richard Bernstein Advisors said at the TDAmeritrade Institutional Conference on Thursday.

• Underhill: Commodities Place to Be This Year 

  

  Mike Underhill, CIO with Capital Innovations, says commodity stocks in a diversified portfolio is a way to gain capital appreciation and an inflation hedge. He also discusses the three Fs: food, forests and fuel.

• US Needs Immigration Reform to Stay No. 1 : Condi Rice

  

  The challenge to U.S. global leadership will not come from upstart emerging markets like China, but from a "U.S. gone bad," former Secretary of State Condolezza Rice told the TDAmeritrade Institutional conference.

• Have Retail Investors Missed the Boat? 

  

  Fred Tomczyk, TD Ameritrade CEO, explains whether the retail investor is back.

• Retail Investors Moving Back to Stocks: TD Ameritrade CEO

  

  Now that the Dow Jones is flirting with all-time highs, retail investors can still enjoy additional gains, TD Ameritrade executives told the company's annual conference in San Diego on Thursday.