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Financial Advisor November 2003 Marla Brill	Advisors Divided Over Fund Scandals Some think they are isolated cases; others say their faith is being tested.
BusinessWeek November 10, 2003 Dwyer & Borrus	The Coming Mutual-Fund Reforms As mutual-fund abuses mount, regulators and lawmakers promise tough new rules.
CIO July 1, 2004 Elana Varon	Mutual Benefits To regain investor confidence and improve the bottom line, the mutual fund industry needs to integrate transactions up and down the supply chain.
Registered Rep. November 3, 2003 Will Leitch	Fund Scandal Implicates Stockbrokers The mutual fund trading scandals headlines seemed to implicate mutual fund family executives and hedge funds -- everybody but individual retail brokers and brokerage management. But a new survey by the SEC charges brokers with abusive trading of mutual funds.
BusinessWeek November 10, 2003 Jeffrey M. Laderman	Mutual Funds: What To Do Now Wondering how to cope with the growing scandal? Here are some answers.
Entrepreneur January 2004 Scott Bernard Nelson	Under Fire Is it still possible to invest without getting burned?
BusinessWeek September 22, 2003 Anne Tergesen	How Traders Play the Timing Game Finance professor Jason Greene explains why this technique hurts buy-and-hold fund investors and how to protect yourself
Registered Rep. August 8, 2005 Stan Luxenberg	CIBC and the Murky Waters of Mutual Fund Enforcement When the mutual fund scandals broke in September 2003, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and other politicians described the misdeeds in black-and-white terms. Now, two years into the legal actions, the saga has begun to appear murkier.
Registered Rep. December 2, 2003 Will Leitch	Spitzer, OCC Issue Corporate Death Penalty The news came right before the Thanksgiving holiday, so you might have missed it. But let there be no doubt: The mutual fund investigations have now gone nuclear.
HBS Working Knowledge December 1, 2003	Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund? What is the answer to allegedly poor mutual fund governance practices? Can mutual fund directors, often responsible for dozens of funds in a fund family, be expected to exercise adequate oversight? Or must practices be corrected through added regulation? Or is the problem deeper than this?
BusinessWeek December 22, 2003 Amy Borrus	Funds: Leaving Little Guys Out In The Cold The SEC's cleanup of mutual funds could shortchange small investors.
Knowledge@Wharton April 9, 2003	John C. Bogle's Advice: Live Long and Prosper, on Index Funds In a perilous climate, what does one of the country's best-known stock market experts advise investors to do? Just stay the course, says John C. Bogle, founder and retired chairman and CEO of The Vanguard Group.
BusinessWeek March 8, 2004 Anne Tergesen	Revealing Redemption Rates Worried that market timers are monkeying with your mutual fund? Here's one way to check for red flags
Registered Rep. July 30, 2003 Will Leitch	SIA Says "Me Too" on Sales Fee Investigations Amid the brewing investigations into mutual fund sales practices, the Securities Industry Association came out last week in support of the new Joint NASD/Industry Task Force.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2006 Stan Luxenberg	To Define a Theft For all the uncertainties, the SEC continues battling the mutual fund market-timing problem. After the scandal broke, the regulator promised tough moves to stop the questionable trading. But so far, the pace of change has been slow.
BusinessWeek November 17, 2003 Borrus & Dwyer	Funds Need A Radical New Design Recent mutual fund scandals show that fund boards do a poor job of protecting investors. A look at some proposals for restructuring the industry.
BusinessWeek December 1, 2003 Borrus & Dwyer	The Critical Battle For Fund Reform Big investors, Congress, the SEC -- they're all swooping in to curb widespread abuses in the mutual-fund industry.
The Motley Fool March 22, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman	Spitzer Rides Again Chalk another one up to General Eliot Spitzer and his war on bad funds.
BusinessWeek June 26, 2006 Lauren Young	Mutual Funds: Back In Action Sure, the markets are jittery, but mutual funds are doing a better job for investors since the dot-com smashup. Long-term returns are up, fees are down, and, despite ETFs and hedge funds, money is rolling in.
Registered Rep. November 7, 2003 David A. Geracioti	SEC Chief "Distressed" at "Wrongdoing" in Industry SEC Chairman William Donaldson's favorite word is distressed -- at least that was true during both his speech to the Securities Industry Association annual meeting and the press briefing that followed.
Registered Rep. September 1, 2005 Stan Luxenberg	Gray Matter When the mutual fund scandals broke in September 2003, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and other politicians described the misdeeds in black-and-white terms. Now, two years into the legal actions, the matter is getting murkier.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2005 Stan Luxenberg	A Benign Disaster? An academic, hired by Putnam to calculate losses attributable to market-timing and excessive trading, reckons the number is $4.4 million, not the $110 million Putnam agreed to pay the SEC and Massachusetts regulators.. And that includes interest.
The Motley Fool December 31, 2003	Choose the Right Broker What should you consider when comparing brokerages?
Financial Planning April 1, 2005	News Digest SEC Investment Chief Heads to Exit... Compliance: Fund Boards Gain Control over Timing Curbs... Companies: American Funds Charged for Kickbacks... Fidelity Boosts Fund Sales... etc.
Knowledge@Wharton December 18, 2002	You Could Have Shorted Dot-coms; You Just Didn't Why did common sense, sound analysis or betting against the trend fail to curb the enthusiasm in this case?
CFO December 1, 2003 Linda Corman	Subject to Failure Recent scandals in the mutual-fund industry leave employers questioning the security of their plans.
Entrepreneur February 2004 Scott Bernard Nelson	Good Funds Gone Bad Should you dump shares of fund companies implicated in scandals?
Financial Advisor April 2004 Tracey Longo	Wanted: Real Disclosure Rules on brokers compensation disclosure are changing---but slowly.
Registered Rep. December 9, 2003 Will Leitch	Raymond James Audits Itself In the wake of last week's news that regulators have recommended "enforcement action" against Raymond James Financial for failure to offer clients breakpoints, the Florida-based brokerage has called for an all-hands-on-deck audit of its mutual fund trading.
Registered Rep. August 1, 2004 Will Leitch	The Reformation When the scandal craze that has gripped the securities industry first began two years ago, few in the industry recognized how deep it might go.
Registered Rep. July 1, 2004 Will Leitch	The End of the World as We Know It? Is the traditional model for securities houses --- investment banking, research, asset management, retail brokerage all coexisting under one roof --- more trouble than it's worth?
Wall Street & Technology March 2, 2004 Jessica Pallay	Give Me a Break Breakpoints may give investors a break, but Wall Street's CIOs are working overtime to comply with regulators' wishes.
Registered Rep. January 12, 2006 John Churchill	UBS Dinged $50 Million for Market Timing New York Stock Exchange Regulation, along with the New Jersey Bureau of Securities, today announced that UBS Financial Services was fined $49.5 million for failure to supervise the deceptive market timing activities of its brokers.
Wall Street & Technology June 4, 2004 Jessica Pallay	Fund Fixes Mutual funds are taking action to prepare for potential regulations on market timing, but there aren't any easy answers.
The Motley Fool April 16, 2004 Whitney Tilson	Funds' Dirty Little Secrets Discover more ways hedge funds and mutual funds inflate their profits at the expense of investors.
Registered Rep. November 12, 2003	Morgan Stanley Launches Conflict-of-Interest Probe Morgan Stanley has announced it is conducting an in-house conflict-of-interest probe.
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004	The Mutual-Fund Scandals Leaving the little guy in the dark made for some nice payoffs, but the comeuppance stands to be even heftier as funds face legal actions.
Wall Street & Technology October 27, 2003	Fair or Foul? Industry allegations of market timing have mutual funds clamoring to get into the fair-valuation game.
The Motley Fool April 6, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman	Surviving the Fund Scandal Times are tough for fund investors, but they're about to get better. An unfolding mutual fund scandal is paving the way for serious reform.
Registered Rep. April 8, 2004 Joan Warner	Trouble In The House That Purcell Built? After suffering through a cruel bear market, Morgan Stanley has come under regulatory scrutiny and legal fire for practices in several key businesses in the past two years, including mutual fund sales.
Financial Advisor February 2004 Tracey Longo	Facing The Confidence Crisis How you can help clients deal with the mutual fund scandals.
The Motley Fool July 6, 2005 Tom Taulli	Donaldson's Last Stand William Donaldson made his mark on the SEC -- up until his last day in office. Interestingly, even the U.S. Court of Appeals had concerns about the new mutual fund regulations.
BusinessWeek June 28, 2004 Emily Thornton	Mutual Funds: The Cost Of Full Disclosure With Securities & Exchange Commission Chairman William H. Donaldson pushing for new rules aimed at providing greater safeguards for mutual-fund investors, brokerages worry that implementing them will cost billions of dollars.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2006 Stan Luxenberg	Payback Time Still As punishment for the market-timing scandals, the SEC and other enforcers collected fines from 20 fund companies. Four fund companies have filed plans with the SEC to distribute the cash to shareholders. But so far the money sits waiting until the plans are approved.
The Motley Fool May 31, 2005 Selena Maranjian	Think Twice About Chinese Brokerages America's brokerages offer more protection for investors.
BusinessWeek January 19, 2004 Borrus & Dwyer	How To Crack Down On Mutual-Fund Fees The SEC should require uniform cost disclosure.
Registered Rep. August 1, 2003	Ten To Watch 2003 The members of our "Ten to Watch" list are among those saddled with having to manage in this tough environment. What makes this group different is that each member has proven influential enough to play some role in creating the securities industry's environment for the year to come.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2004 Ilana Polyak	Trading Stocks Without the Chatty Cathys Mutual funds have hidden expenses because their large trades can move a stock's price before the transaction is complete. Intermediaries like Liquidnet seek to eliminate the problem.