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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.
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.
Financial Advisor April 2004 Tracey Longo	Wanted: Real Disclosure Rules on brokers compensation disclosure are changing---but slowly.
Registered Rep. February 27, 2004 David A. Gaffen	Regulators, Industry Still Divided On Mutual Funds David Brown, bureau chief of investment protection in the New York Attorney General's office, said insurance companies who sold mutual funds wrapped in variable annuities, along with banks and law firms, may end up becoming targets of Eliot Spitzer's ire in coming months.
The Motley Fool April 2, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman	SEC: Toothless No More? Is the SEC getting serious about fund industry reform?
Registered Rep. November 11, 2005 David A. Geracioti	Cox to SIA: No Regulatory Rollback When William Donaldson stepped down as SEC chairman, the perception was that the reform movement had also left the building. But Christopher Cox's first speech to the Securities Industry Association was to the contrary.
Registered Rep. November 7, 2002	SIA Conference: Let's Get Confident! Rudy says: I won't take SEC helm if asked. It's official: It's a time for "building investor confidence." That's the theme of this year's Securities Industry Association gabfest, held at the tony Boca Raton Resort & Club in Boca Raton, Fla. Never mind that SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt resigned two days ago. Think positively.
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. 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.
Registered Rep. May 21, 2004 Will Leitch	Roye Blasts Revenue Sharing at ICI Conference; Strong Settles The SEC's director of its investment management division delivered perhaps his strongest remarks yet on mutual fund malfeasance.
The Motley Fool May 20, 2004 Tim Beyers	American Express Unit in Scandal The broker could be a target of a regulatory inquiry into mutual funds revenue-sharing. How can you tell if your own broker or advisor has a conflict of interest?
Knowledge@Wharton September 24, 2003	Mutual Fund Scandals: Once Again, Individual Investors Are the Losers Is the mutual fund industry going to become mired in the kind of scandal that has afflicted so many public companies over the past few years?
Registered Rep. June 2, 2004 Will Leitch	SEC Passes Breakpoint Amendment---With an `Ethics' Twist The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued its long-awaited amendments on breakpoints (sales-charge discounts on mutual funds), and the end result of months of deliberations surprised no one.
Registered Rep. February 22, 2005 Will Leitch	SEC's Roye Out as Mutual Fund Head In a move that casts doubt on the future of mutual fund regulation, the SEC has announced that its chief mutual funds legislator, Paul Roye, will step down, effective immediately.
Registered Rep. February 1, 2003 Will Leitch	NASD Investigates Potential Breakpoint Violations The confusing slew of regulations that have followed on the heels of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has tapped a strange feeling in brokers: the fear of violating securities rules unwittingly. A recent investigation by the NASD shows their worries are not unfounded.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2005	Blotter Regulate Thyself, NASD... Class is in Session... He Looked Bigger on TV...
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. 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. June 1, 2005 John Churchill	SEC to Lose Its Head Some say the departure of SEC Chairman William Donaldson, appointed by President George W. Bush to help restore confidence in scandal-ridden markets, can't result in anything positive for the Commission's agenda in the near future.
Registered Rep. March 24, 2005 Kristen French	Mutual Fund Enforcement Picks Up Steam On March 23, the SEC and NASD handed out fines in mutual fund-related punishments totaling more than $80 million to five firms. And that is likely just the beginning of a coming avalanche of similar regulatory actions, legal experts say.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2004 David A. Gaffen	Quietly Active The annual Securities Industry Association conference exuded an odd serenity, at least until the speakers invoked the name of Eliot Spitzer.
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 Dwyer & Thornton	Mutual Funds Feel The Heat Did they feed information to hedge funds, brokers, and others?
Registered Rep. April 1, 2005 Luxenberg & French	A Pile of Reasons Regulators and broker/dealer management have gone overboard with mutual fund disclosure. Take the case of the B-share class of mutual funds.
The Motley Fool December 1, 2004 Tim Beyers	Carnival of the Ignorant The NYSE faces down brokers who didn't provide basic information to thousands of IPO investors. But refunds? Sorry, folks, but when you invest, you take a risk.
Registered Rep. November 18, 2003 Will Leitch	Senate Committee Hears Testimony about Fund Industry Each day seems to bring more news from the mutual fund industry. And industry reform is in the air. The climate is such that on Capitol Hill today even the mutual fund industry's lobbying group had to eat some crow.
Entrepreneur January 2004 Scott Bernard Nelson	Under Fire Is it still possible to invest without getting burned?
Financial Advisor May 2004 Alan Lavine	Dramatic Changes Loom For Mutual Fund, Annuities Sales Proposed disclosure rules could hurt level-load sales.
The Motley Fool July 15, 2004 Tim Beyers	SEC Hedges on Funds The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), in a hotly contested battle, chose to force more regulation on the fund industry. A new rule requires hedge funds to register.
Registered Rep. September 1, 2005 Karen Donovan	Under Siege Executives of broker/dealer firms are not exaggerating when they say it seems like regulators are locked into a competitive battle to collect the most pelts on Wall Street.
Registered Rep. June 1, 2004 Will Leitch	Accused A recent mutual fund scandal at Edward Jones causes a temporary hiccup in the firm's reputation.
Registered Rep. June 3, 2003 Will Leitch	Brokerage Chiefs in Spitzer's Sights When New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced the $1.4 billion settlement of the securities conflict of interest case in April, his office warned that it was "the beginning, not the end." Wirehouses are finding out, in a big way, that he wasn't kidding.
Registered Rep. April 7, 2005 Kristen French	NASD Advocates More Disclosure, Less Paper Broker/dealers and their reps may get a big break on point-of-sale disclosure if the Securities and Exchange Commission heeds recent NASD advice.
BusinessWeek July 28, 2003 Borrus & McNamee	States vs. the SEC: What's All the Shouting for? On the surface, it looks like the fragile alliance between state and federal securities cops is crumbling. There's more -- and less -- going on here than meets the eye.
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.
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.
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. August 10, 2004 John Churchill	Hidden Market-Timers A new study of mutual fund firms' enforcement capabilities affirms what many in the industry have known for some time---that omnibus accounting practices by fund intermediaries make catching timers virtually impossible.
Registered Rep. January 8, 2003 Will Leitch	NASD: Firms Are Overcharging Clients The NASD, acting on a tip acquired during an investigation, has sent several brokerage firms word that it has discovered brokers are not providing earned discounts to mutual fund investors, therefore overcharging them.
The Motley Fool June 25, 2004 Tim Beyers	Fund Independence Day Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission turned up the heat on the mutual fund industry by requiring that funds maintain a board of trustees that is at least 75% independent from management.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2005 Kristen French	Scandal Scorecard: Mutual Funds on Top With the SEC and NASD recently levying more than $80 million in fines to five firms (for transgressions related to revenue sharing and B shares), mutual fund sales practices officially sit on the front burner.
BusinessWeek February 28, 2005 Amy Borrus	Donaldson's Balancing Act The SEC chairman plans further reforms -- mixed with business-friendly flexibility.
The Motley Fool June 20, 2005 S.J. Caplan	7 Reasons to Bid Donaldson a Fond Adieu Investors should appreciate what was accomplished in the SEC chairman's tenure.
Registered Rep. February 17, 2005 John Churchill	NASD Charges American Funds with Directed Brokerage Violation Saying it's just as impermissible to make directed brokerage payments as it is to receive them, the NASD charged American Funds---one of the country's most reputable asset managers---with paying kickbacks to brokerages for selling its funds.
Investment Advisor January 2007 Kara Stapleton	News & Products Bank of New York and Mellon Financial Corporation announced plans to merge... The brokerage firm Jefferies & Co. will pay $9.7 million to settle SEC charges... New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has sued UBS... etc.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2006 Kevin Burke	Herd Mentality Instead of being the value-adders they're supposed to be, brokers seem to be following the larger herd of investors. A recent survey shows about two-thirds of brokers invest more than half of the asset they manage with a single mutual fund family.
Registered Rep. September 9, 2005 Stan Luxenberg	Imagine 50 Eliot Spitzers When are mutual fund companies charging too much in advisory fees? What constitutes proper disclosure of revenue sharing? And which governmental authority has jurisdiction over these issues?
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.
Registered Rep. April 8, 2005 John Churchill	`Merrill Rule' Debate Not Over The SEC unanimously voted to allow Series 7 holders, or registered reps, to position themselves as financial advisors -- with certain caveats. But once again the SEC seemed to hedge its bet. So the debate rages on.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 Barry Rehfeld	Another Tough Top Cop? When President Bush tapped Christopher Cox to replace William Donaldson, it looked like Bush was swapping an aggressive reformer for a kinder, gentler regulator. Yet since he took over as SEC chairman, Cox has shown that he is not the anti-Donaldson.
Financial Advisor January 2004 Jay Gould	Washed Up On The Banks Of Denial The SEC has changed its policies regarding anti-fraud consent injunctions. How should investment advisors react?