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Byline: Charles Paikert

NEW YORK - Financial planners and advisers in New Orleans and on the Gulf Coast are beginning to recover from the devastating effects of last year's hurricanes.

"We're on the road back,'' said Ron Chapoton, owner of an eponymous Kenner, La., financial planning firm.

"I wasn't able to get back into my office for three weeks after the storm and had no business at all for five weeks,'' he said. "Things got better in November, and December was fairly normal.''

Guy Guinot, branch manager for Chalmette, La.-based fina

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