Arete Wealth Advisors

Arete Wealth Advisors as of Dec. 31, 2013

Portfolio Holdings for Arete Wealth Advisors

Arete Wealth Advisors holds 98 positions in its portfolio as reported in the December 2013 quarterly 13F filing

Company (Ticker) Portfolio Weight Valued At Change in Shares Share Count Share Price
Bank of America Corporation (BAC) 11.6 $12M 758k 15.57
Mbia (MBI) 8.7 $8.8M 735k 11.94
American International (AIG) 7.6 $7.7M 151k 51.05
Apple (AAPL) 4.4 $4.5M 8.0k 558.46
SandRidge Energy 3.5 $3.6M 587k 6.07
Pimco Etf Tr 0-5 high yield (HYS) 3.3 $3.3M 31k 106.36
American Intl Group 3.0 $3.1M 152k 20.25
Chesapeake Energy Corporation 2.3 $2.4M 87k 27.14
PowerShares DB Agriculture Fund 2.0 $2.0M 82k 24.26
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) 1.9 $1.9M 16k 118.55
Advent Claymore Convertible Sec & Inc (AVK) 1.8 $1.8M 98k 18.53
Bank Of America Corporation warrant 1.8 $1.8M 278k 6.47
Intel Corporation (INTC) 1.7 $1.7M 66k 25.96
Cisco Systems (CSCO) 1.6 $1.7M 75k 22.43
Vanguard Large-Cap ETF (VV) 1.6 $1.7M 20k 84.81
Jp Morgan Alerian Mlp Index (AMJ) 1.6 $1.6M 35k 46.34
KKR Financial Holdings 1.5 $1.5M 125k 12.19
Barclays Bank Plc 8.125% Non C p 1.4 $1.4M 57k 25.37
Encana Corp 1.3 $1.3M 72k 18.04
BlackRock Corporate High Yield Fund VI (HYT) 1.1 $1.1M 87k 12.17
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) 1.0 $1.1M 28k 37.42
iShares S&P SmallCap 600 Index (IJR) 0.9 $955k 8.7k 109.17
Claymore Exchange-traded Fd gugg spinoff etf 0.9 $913k 20k 45.03
Barrick Gold Corp (GOLD) 0.9 $906k 51k 17.63
ETFS Physical Palladium Shares 0.9 $890k 13k 69.61
SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield B 0.9 $873k 22k 40.54
Vanguard Small-Cap ETF (VB) 0.8 $847k 7.7k 109.99
Wpx Energy 0.8 $828k 41k 20.37
Spdr S&p 500 Etf (SPY) 0.8 $798k 4.3k 184.68
Levy Acquisition Corp Unit 1 0 0.8 $790k 79k 10.01
SPDR S&P MidCap 400 ETF (MDY) 0.8 $782k 3.2k 244.15
BP (BP) 0.8 $756k 16k 48.64
Globus Med Inc cl a (GMED) 0.7 $747k 37k 20.19
Cheniere Energy (LNG) 0.7 $723k 17k 43.14
iShares S&P MidCap 400 Index (IJH) 0.7 $715k 5.3k 133.85
EXCO Resources 0.7 $705k 133k 5.31
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) 0.7 $712k 4.00 178000.00
iShares S&P 500 Growth Index (IVW) 0.7 $711k 7.2k 98.75
Casey's General Stores (CASY) 0.7 $700k 10k 70.28
iShares S&P SmallCap 600 Growth (IJT) 0.7 $703k 5.9k 118.55
iShares MSCI EAFE Value Index (EFV) 0.7 $692k 12k 57.24
Heartland Express (HTLD) 0.7 $656k 33k 19.61
Global X Fds glb x ftse nor (GURU) 0.7 $656k 26k 25.60
Columbia Ppty Tr 0.6 $615k 25k 24.72
Gnc Holdings Inc Cl A 0.6 $603k 10k 58.44
Novagold Resources Inc Cad (NG) 0.6 $573k 225k 2.54
iShares Barclays TIPS Bond Fund (TIP) 0.6 $567k 5.2k 109.93
Leucadia National 0.6 $557k 20k 28.35
Retail Properties Of America 0.5 $544k 43k 12.68
Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM) 0.5 $513k 5.1k 101.00
Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond ETF (BIV) 0.5 $495k 6.1k 81.64
Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF (BSV) 0.5 $492k 6.2k 80.00
iShares S&P Global Technology Sect. (IXN) 0.5 $497k 6.0k 83.31
iShares S&P Global Healthcare Sect. (IXJ) 0.5 $491k 5.7k 86.10
Vanguard FTSE All-World ex-US ETF (VEU) 0.5 $477k 9.4k 50.73
iShares S&P Global Financials Sect. (IXG) 0.5 $478k 8.5k 56.18
International Business Machines (IBM) 0.5 $463k 2.5k 187.68
iShares Lehman Aggregate Bond (AGG) 0.4 $451k 4.2k 106.37
SPDR Dow Jones Global Real Estate (RWO) 0.4 $441k 11k 41.57
Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Buy-Write (ETW) 0.4 $433k 36k 12.01
Spirit Realty reit 0.4 $434k 44k 9.83
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) 0.4 $408k 7.0k 58.34
General Electric Company 0.4 $393k 14k 27.93
Nuveen Qual Preferred Inc. Fund III 0.4 $383k 49k 7.85
Celgene Corporation 0.4 $374k 2.2k 170.15
At&t (T) 0.3 $356k 10k 35.16
Ford Motor Company (F) 0.3 $351k 23k 15.39
Western Asset Emerging Mrkts Dbt Fnd (EMD) 0.3 $355k 21k 17.21
Caterpillar (CAT) 0.3 $334k 3.7k 90.56
Verizon Communications (VZ) 0.3 $316k 6.4k 49.18
Danaher Corporation (DHR) 0.3 $311k 4.0k 77.21
iShares Barclays Inter Crd Bd Fund ETF) (IGIB) 0.3 $314k 2.9k 107.87
Market Vectors Etf Tr mktvec mornstr 0.3 $314k 11k 28.85
U.S. Bancorp (USB) 0.3 $296k 7.3k 40.37
Exone 0.3 $292k 4.8k 60.52
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Indx (EEM) 0.3 $264k 6.3k 41.75
Credit Suisse AM Inc Fund (CIK) 0.3 $267k 75k 3.56
Healthcare Tr Amer Inc cl a 0.3 $260k 26k 9.84
SPDR KBW Regional Banking (KRE) 0.2 $257k 6.3k 40.66
Annaly Capital Management 0.2 $248k 25k 10.04
Wells Fargo Adv Inc Opport Fund (EAD) 0.2 $243k 26k 9.24
Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) 0.2 $237k 5.2k 45.34
ConocoPhillips (COP) 0.2 $232k 3.3k 70.60
Technology SPDR (XLK) 0.2 $230k 6.4k 35.68
Summit Hotel Properties (INN) 0.2 $232k 26k 8.98
Cole Real Estate Invts 0.2 $232k 17k 13.98
Visa (V) 0.2 $218k 980.00 222.45
Abraxas Petroleum 0.2 $218k 67k 3.26
Vanguard European ETF (VGK) 0.2 $226k 3.8k 58.79
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (PMT) 0.2 $213k 9.3k 23.02
iShares MSCI Canada Index (EWC) 0.2 $211k 7.2k 29.19
McDonald's Corporation (MCD) 0.2 $207k 2.2k 96.28
Standard Pacific 0.2 $166k 18k 9.05
Invesco Van Kampen Dyn Cr Opp Fund 0.2 $163k 13k 12.93
Salem Communications (SALM) 0.1 $148k 17k 8.70
Sunopta (STKL) 0.1 $137k 14k 9.89
American Apparel 0.1 $99k 81k 1.23
Timberline Res Corp 0.0 $2.0k 10k 0.20