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Investment Advisor November 2009 Melanie Waddell |
SEC Sets Out Strategic Plan The Securities and Exchange Commission publishes its Draft Strategic Plan outlining the Commission's strategic goals for 2010 through 2015. |
Investment Advisor September 2009 Melanie Waddell |
Alternative Uptick Rule The SEC is seeking public comment on an alternative approach to short-selling price test restrictions. |
The Motley Fool October 15, 2010 Bill Barker |
Why We Oppose 12b-1 Fees This little sales charge doesn't benefit existing shareholders, is insufficiently transparent, and the SEC has a new proposal to limit that fee. |
Investment Advisor September 2010 Melanie Waddell |
Washington Watch: Industry Heeds SEC's Call for Comments SEC flooded with comments on fiduciary standard; 'fiduciary forum' on September 24. |
Registered Rep. January 9, 2007 John Churchill |
To Hedge Gets Harder The SEC proposed a rule in December that would raise the net worth requirements of investors in hedge funds to $2.5 million from $1 million, not including the value of one's home. |
Investment Advisor August 2010 Melanie Waddell |
Advice to the SEC When it comes to the fiduciary standard, Capital Analysts President and CEO Matt Lynch says advisors "want to be sure the SEC seeks and gathers input from the industry as to how to implement these important changes." |
Financial Advisor May 2004 Alan Lavine |
Dramatic Changes Loom For Mutual Fund, Annuities Sales Proposed disclosure rules could hurt level-load sales. |
Registered Rep. February 18, 2004 John Churchill |
SEC Puts Forth Mutual Fund Rules Proposals The SEC has put forth three proposals that could drastically change the way mutual funds are sold. |
Investment Advisor October 2010 Melanie Waddell |
Dissecting the FSI's Position on Fiduciary As a new study finds investors still confused, Financial Services Institute president Dale Brown presents the independent broker/dealer perspective. |
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. |
Investment Advisor March 1, 2011 Melanie Waddell |
SEC Fiduciary Rule May Hit by Summer Despite the advisory industry's hopes that the Securities and Exchange Commission would get a quick start on writing a rule to put brokers under the same fiduciary standard as advisors, it looks as though a rulemaking could come by summer. |
Investment Advisor April 2008 Melanie Waddell |
It's About Time Investment industry executives agree that the SEC's proposed short-form mutual fund prospectus is long overdue. |
Investment Advisor June 1, 2011 Melanie Waddell |
Schapiro Says SEC to Focus in July on Fiduciary, 12b-1 The Commission will look at fund regulation "in tandem" with RIA/BD reform. |
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. |
Financial Advisor April 2004 Tracey Longo |
Wanted: Real Disclosure Rules on brokers compensation disclosure are changing---but slowly. |
The Motley Fool April 2, 2004 Shannon Zimmerman |
SEC: Toothless No More? Is the SEC getting serious about fund industry reform? |
Financial Advisor October 2012 |
Stalled: Tougher Fiduciary Standard For Brokers Even with Wall Street and consumer advocates allied in pushing for it, a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposal to raise standards for brokers advising retail investors has run aground. |
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. |
Information Today August 21, 2008 |
SEC Announces a New IDEA--The Successor to EDGAR Based on a completely new architecture being built from the ground up, it will at first supplement and then eventually replace the EDGAR system. |
The Motley Fool March 10, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Barring Bad Board Directors The SEC is cracking down, but enforcement is a problem. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2005 James A. Barnash |
Why We're Suing The FPA president explains the lawsuit over the SEC's broker-dealer rule that exempted certain broker-dealers from disclosure standards that apply to investment advisers and most financial planners. |
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. |
Financial Advisor October 2004 Evan Simonoff |
Editor's Note Back in July when the Financial Planning Association filed a lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission, many advisors could be forgiven for wondering if the FPA was losing its grip on reality. |
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? |
Registered Rep. December 1, 2005 Andrew Osterland |
Brokering Advice The essential difference between brokers and registered advisors, say financial planners, is fiduciary duty. The notion that b/ds have a lighter burden of regulation than registered advisors, however, is something the securities industry vigorously disputes. |
BusinessWeek April 11, 2005 Toddi Gutner |
Broker Or Adviser? Be forewarned: If yours is employed by a brokerage, your interests come second |
Registered Rep. April 1, 2008 Halah Touryalai |
Clients in Your Pockets Playing hopscotch from one firm to another, without losing all of your clients, may soon get a little easier. That is, if the SEC's proposed amendment to privacy policy rules, also known as Regulation S-P, is approved. |
The Motley Fool August 27, 2010 Selena Maranjian |
Don't Let Wall Street Win This Fight You can help the SEC benefit millions of individual investors. |
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. 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. 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. June 24, 2009 John Churchill |
SEC Says Time To Tighten Rules On Money Market Funds After one of the oldest and largest money market funds suffered such severe redemptions that the net asset value of its shares fell below $1, the SEC is proposing structural and regulatory changes for money markets |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2008 |
Plain English: The Cost of Compliance The SEC voted in February to propose changes to the structure of the Form ADV, the disclosure document that all investment advisors must complete. |
Registered Rep. February 23, 2007 Halah Touryalai |
Retail Hedge Fund Investors to the SEC: Buzz Off The SEC thinks it needs to do more to protect wealthy retail investors from the secretive world of hedge funds. But many wealthy investors say they can take care of themselves. |
Investment Advisor June 2008 Melanie Waddell |
A Long, Hot Regulatory Summer Rules from the SEC on credit ratings agencies, 12b-1, soft dollars, and hedge funds |
Registered Rep. April 1, 2005 |
Ratting on Regulators Don't like the way that SEC investigator treated you while rifling through your files? Well, now you can report him. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Nov/Dec 2013 Taylor & Trowbridge |
Group Investing Update Changes to securities laws may change your business model. |
Investment Advisor February 1, 2011 Melanie Waddell |
2011: The Year the Advisors' Playing Field Fundamentally Changes All eyes this year will be focused on the exchanges that will ensue between lawmakers and the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding putting brokers under a fiduciary mandate and appointing a self-regulatory organization. |
Bank Systems & Technology July 5, 2004 Ivan Schneider |
SEC to Banks: Selling Securities? Get a License Industry convergence slowed by multiple regulators and accounting system limitations. |
The Motley Fool June 15, 2005 Selena Maranjian |
Beware of Brokers With Agendas Is your broker recommending a fund that serves you -- or him? Here's a conflict of interest you really need to be aware of -- because it may involve your broker and your portfolio. |
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. |
Registered Rep. August 30, 2005 John Churchill |
Retaining Those Pesky Emails Morgan Stanley is in for what could be a $10 million fine from the SEC for failing to retain emails, according to a report. |
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 26, 2005 Kristen French |
A Pawn Takes the Queen Charles Elliott scores one for the "little guy," and proves that sometimes it pays for a broker to take on securities regulators, despite their financial and legal heft. |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 John Churchill |
Market-Timer Banned and Fined Theodore Sihpol III, a former broker at Banc of America Securities (BAS), and poster boy for the market-timing scandals -- and the first target of Spitzer to say no to a plea offer -- has settled with the SEC. |
CFO March 1, 2003 Tim Reason |
Two Weeks in January The SEC put much of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act into effect by passing a slew of new rules. Here's what was proposed and what was disposed. |
The Motley Fool November 1, 2005 |
Selective Disclosure, Explained The SEC instituted a "Fair Disclosure" rule that prohibited public companies from alerting analysts and major investors to important changes before disclosing that information to the general public. So what has happened since the rule went into effect? |
Bank Systems & Technology June 17, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Levitt Applauds Regulatory Reforms, but Says Accounting Standards Ignored Former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt says the Obama plan for regulatory overhaul achieves good balance, but still must address other problems. |
Registered Rep. February 1, 2005 John Churchill |
A Monster Issue Will the SEC withdraw the Broker-Dealer Exemption, causing reps to back away from adviser status? If so, the impact could cause substantial disruption in the markets. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2006 Marshall Eckblad |
Chalk One Up for RIAs According to a recent survey, a majority of investors believe stockbrokers and investment advisers owe the same fiduciary responsibilities to their clients. |