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Why sudden wealth at Facebook is gushing into a $17-billion RIA and triggered a merger of two DFA giants

Buckingham Asset Management won a single Facebook employee and now it's all hands on deck as eight teams see prospects -- often til 2 a.m.

Author Lisa Shidler September 11, 2012 at 3:15 AM
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Joe Goldberg: [A Facebook employee] told me, 'I've met with Goldman, Merrill and Morgan and no one has given me a reason to pay them a dime.'


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