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InternetNews
September 8, 2005
Roy Mark |
Feds Sue Realtors Over Internet Listings The Department of Justice sued the National Association of Realtors today, charging it with engaging in anti-competitive behavior against online home brokers.   |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Brokers Fear Arbitration... With arbitration cases on the rise, many brokers are worried about the prospect of being dragged through a legal process that, because of the current environment, some believe is heavily slanted toward the client. |
InternetNews
November 29, 2006
Roy Mark |
Court Greenlights DOJ Case Against Realtors District court allows the Department of Justice to proceed with antitrust suit against National Association of Realtors. |
Registered Rep.
December 16, 2005
Halah Touryalai |
Former Pru Broker Penalized for Abusive Trading Three years after the SEC charged five Boston-based Prudential Securities brokers for abusive mutual fund trading, one of the accused is being temporarily barred from association with any broker/dealer or investment advisor. |
Registered Rep.
May 28, 2009
Kristen French |
Former Brookstreet Brokers Hit With Fraud Charges Almost two years after their firm imploded, 16 brokers from Brookstreet Securities may have come to justice. |
Registered Rep.
October 14, 2010
Kristen French |
Merrill Brokers Had "Good Reason" To Leave, And Got $1.2 ml For It Two former Merrill brokers won $1.167 million in an arbitration award from Merrill Lynch for deferred compensation benefits |
Registered Rep.
September 14, 2005
Kristen French |
Overtime Pay, Chargebacks Under Fire; Morgan Stanley Latest Firm in Lawyers' Sights A $450 million class-action lawsuit filed in New York against Morgan Stanley on Friday could have major implications for brokerages' pay practices in the state. |
Registered Rep.
November 5, 2003
Churchill & Gaffen |
Pru Market-Timing Charges Widen The investigation into mutual fund trading abuses is widening, with the release of a complaint filed by the Massachusetts Securities Division against brokers who formerly worked in Prudential Securities' hub office in Boston. |
Registered Rep.
November 30, 2005
Kristen French |
Wachovia Shaves Payout, Levels Charges on In-House and Outside SMAs After simplifying it's payout structure earlier this year, Wachovia Securities announced that it would make some more tweaks in 2006 and raise ticket charges on some in-house money-management products to match those of third-party products. |
Registered Rep.
November 29, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Merrill Lynch to Pay National Overtime Settlement The financial firm has decided to consolidate the numerous overtime lawsuits that have been filed against the firm and settle nationally with its brokers. |
Registered Rep.
November 12, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
UBS PaineWebber to Hire 500 Brokers UBS PaineWebber Chairman Joseph Grano announced that the firm is going to hire up to 500 brokers during the next year. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Morgan Stanley Boosts Pay for Fee Business Morgan Stanley unveiled a new compensation plan for brokers that rewards fee-based business and penalizes transactional business. |
Registered Rep.
January 17, 2003
Rick Weinberg |
Pru Tells Admin Managers To Dump Books Prudential Securities informed all of its administrative managers at the beginning of the year that if they were also producing brokers, they were no longer going to be paid commissions, according to sources. |
The Motley Fool
June 15, 2010 |
One Way to Profit From Higher Interest Rates The good news for brokers is that many have been adding new accounts throughout the recession, which means that once interest rates rise again, they could be bringing in even more interest income than before. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Bonus Bait Morgan Stanley is planning to offer bonuses to brokers who expand their production in 2006. |
BusinessWeek
April 18, 2005
Timothy J. Mullaney |
Real Estate's Turf War Heats Up How old-line real estate agents are undermining advances by online discount brokers. |
Registered Rep.
December 11, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
PaineWebber Cuts Bonuses, Expense Accounts Brokers at UBS PaineWebber received a double hit of bad news this week in this tough time for brokerages. Not only were they informed that the bonuses they receive for bringing in new assets were being cut, but expense accounts are being trimmed as well. |
Registered Rep.
April 5, 2006
John Churchill |
UBS Wins Prominent Black Rep From Smith Barney In what can be considered a coup of sorts for the firm, UBS hired a prominent black Smith Barney broker this past winter -- while it was under fire from a lawsuit brought by former brokers alleging a pattern and practice of racial discrimination. |
Registered Rep.
April 29, 2008 |
Citi Hedge Fund Blow Up Hurts Clients--And Sends Advisors Packing While Smith Barney tries its darnedest to hold on to the money of its wealthy clients, it's also having a hard time keeping some of its best brokers. |
Registered Rep.
September 19, 2006
John Churchill |
Merrill's O'Neal to Be Deposed for Discrimination Suit Stanley O'Neal, chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch, will be deposed as part of the discovery phase in a race-discrimination suit filed by one of the firm's black brokers. |
Registered Rep.
August 12, 2005
Kristen French |
Morgan Pink-Slips Brokers, Clients Reassigned New Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack made his first big move on Morgan's rank-and-file this week, instructing branch managers to dismiss approximately 1,000 brokers. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Ready to Punch a Time Clock Merrill Lynch paid $37 million to settle claims that it owes thousands of former brokers overtime pay. Now, class-action attorneys smell blood. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2006
Mindy Diamond |
On the Rebound Big firms are sending low-producing brokers messages that they are no longer as wanted as they once were. Brokers who see the handwriting on the wall, may have better options if they jump to another firm before being pushed. |
Managed Care
May 2000
John Carroll |
Like Stock Brokers, Are Health Care's Middlemen Losing Influence? Those who make deals between buyers and insurers are used to perks and tidy commissions. The Internet and defined contributions may threaten that. |
Registered Rep.
January 27, 2012
Kristen French |
Due Diligence: FINRA's Merrill Fine is a Tap on the Wrist This week, FINRA fined Merrill Lynch $1 million for making it hard for former brokers of the firm to fight back in bonus disputes. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Race Discrimination Cloud Hangs Over Good Year For Merrill Lynch and UBS, allegations of widespread racial discrimination put a damper on an otherwise stellar year for the firms. Both wirehouses were named in separate lawsuits seeking class-action status raised by black brokers who allege a pattern of discrimination at the two firms. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Nov/Dec 2002
Gretchen Pienta |
Remote Control Many commercial real estate company owners have embraced the virtual-office concept to lower operating costs, which presents a management challenge: keeping track of brokers and sales associates. |
InternetNews
August 24, 2006
Roy Mark |
AT&T After 'John Doe' Data Brokers New legal tactics aim to curb data brokers gaining unauthorized access to confidential phone records. |
Registered Rep.
December 22, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Spitzer Wants More Settlement Dollars for New York UBS Reps New York Attorney General and Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer is asking a Northern California court to disapprove the settlement terms of an overtime suit against UBS. |
Registered Rep.
April 27, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
Judge Says Citi Brokers Must Repay Bonuses; Appeal Comes Next Former Citigroup brokers, who wanted courts to dismiss debts the firm said they owed on loans awarded when they were hired, were turned down by a district court judge. But they are planning to appeal that decision. |
Registered Rep.
January 13, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
Citi Files Motion To Dismiss In Bonus Pay Class Action The original lawsuit was brought on behalf of 6 former Citigroup brokers who allege that the payback terms on their upfront bonuses violate contract law, and that they do not owe the firm any money. |
The Motley Fool
April 13, 2005
Selena Maranjian |
Looking for Free Trades Savvy investors are finding ultra-low-cost brokerages. |
Registered Rep.
February 22, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Brokers Headed for Sweep in Overtime Pay Cases? Stockbrokers have won their second big overtime pay case against Wall Street firms and this may only be the beginning of a rout that could cost brokerage houses many millions of dollars more. |
Investment Advisor
December 2009
Kathleen M. McBride |
B/D Briefing: Surprise Broker Sentiment Most appear to support a fiduciary standard. |
National Real Estate Investor
December 1, 2004
Stan Luxenberg |
Recovery Remains in Infancy Stage With employment growing, office markets are slowly improving around the country. |
Registered Rep.
August 15, 2005
Kevin Burke |
SEC Nabs Brokers for Pirating Squawk Box Info The SEC has charged four brokers and a daytrader with cheating investors through a fraudulent scheme to eavesdrop on confidential order flow information, enabling them to "trade ahead" of large orders at more favorable prices. |
BusinessWeek
August 30, 2004
Amy Borrus |
Brokers Aren't Advisers The line between brokers and advisers was clear for decades. But in 1999, the Securities & Exchange Commission blurred that line. Now, to protect investors, the SEC must redraw a clear line. |
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2004
Will Leitch |
The Quick and the Dead Bank of America, which inherited Quick as part of its acquisition of FleetBoston in October 2003, announced it is folding the discount brokerage into its Banc of America Securities unit. |
Registered Rep.
November 3, 2004 |
Broker or Advisor---Who Knows the Difference? More than half of American investors look to brokers for more than just transactional assistance, according to new research, which also finds that investors don't understand the differences between brokers and registered investment advisors. |
Investment Advisor
March 2006
Kathleen M. McBride |
Return of the Broker? Full-service brokers are regaining favor among affluent investors, according to recent study. However, it looks like they still have a way to go keep clients satisfied. |
Registered Rep.
August 10, 2005
Kristen French |
Sources: Morgan Cuts Slated for Thursday Morgan Stanley's human resources department created a performance-based formula for selecting the 1000 people to let go. |
BusinessWeek
February 7, 2005
Dean Foust |
BofA's Happy Surprise Consumer chief McGee's sweeping makeover of Fleet's branches is a success |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2004 |
Testing...Testing The Certified Financial Planner designation is becoming more popular. More brokers are taking the test and, as with many tests, those who fail it tend to have trouble the second time around as well. |
Registered Rep.
February 2, 2006
Kristen French |
Brokers Learning to Play by New Rules It's no longer business as usual on Wall Street. Starting yesterday, broker/dealers must follow a new SEC rule that requires them to disclose at certain times that they may not be acting in their clients' best interest. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2004
Mindy Diamond |
Prospects Grim for Wirehouse Brokers with Hybrid Books of Business Hybrid brokers -- those with both retail and midmarket institutional accounts-- at wirehouses might soon be a thing of the past, but that doesn't mean those with this business model have no options. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2005
Mindy Diamond |
Don't Be Dazzled by Prestige Names But just as Harvard is not the best place for every high school valedictorian, private client groups at Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan are not always the best places for an advisor focused on ultra-high-net-worth clients. |
Registered Rep.
September 25, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
The Axe Falls at DB Alex. Brown Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown yesterday began laying off employees. |
National Real Estate Investor
November 26, 2003
Parke Chapman |
Strong October Hotel Sales Fuel Optimism For Sector October hotel sales outpaced all previous months this year by more than 10%. |
Registered Rep.
November 18, 2005
Kristen French |
Smith Barney Cuts Pay for Smaller Brokers The new pay scale was announced to brokers internally in October and will take effect in January. |
Registered Rep.
January 9, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Wachovia Alters Production Payout Wachovia Securities has altered its monthly production bonus payout for 2003, moving up the monthly production level needed in order for brokers to avoid being penalized for monthly payouts. |
