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Financial Advisor
June 2004
Tracey Longo |
Compliance Overload A white-hot regulatory agenda is bedeviling independent broker-dealers in the U.S.   |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2005
Juliette Fairley |
FP50: Angst Over Compliance As financial advisory firms struggle to manage a raft of new regulations, they are banding together to rein in the rule-makers. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
Christopher O'Leary |
A Crusade Against Indies? Regardless of whether going independent means a more regulatory scrutiny or not, advisors thinking of going out on their own need to understand just how much work such a move will entail in terms of keeping up with the ever-changing world of regulations. |
Financial Advisor
September 2005
Bruce W. Fraser |
How To Survive The SEC Assault Advisors cite a new, more demanding compliance environment. Despite the extra financial and time burden, many advisors feel much better about their businesses, having gone through the compliance process. |
Financial Advisor
June 2006
Tracey Longo |
Is Any Stone Unturned? Is the NASD's regulatory clampdown over? Major changes are in place at the sales force level. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2009
Paul Menchaca |
Oh, the Drama The broker-dealers who spoke to Financial Planning in this year's annual survey are busy negotiating the downturn by improving their infrastructure, expanding through recruitment and eyeing an economic rebound. |
Financial Advisor
April 2004
Tracey Longo |
Wanted: Real Disclosure Rules on brokers compensation disclosure are changing---but slowly. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2004
Anne Field |
The Weight of Words It's a paradox confronting brokers all over the country: In a business climate that calls for ever-increasing advisor-client intimacy, financial professionals are measuring their words more carefully than ever. |
Financial Advisor
November 2010
David Lawrence |
Back In The Fold? Will the new regulations force independents to return to broker-dealers? |
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2004
David A. Gaffen |
The Great Compliance Witch Hunt! Many clean brokers jump firms, only to discover their old broker/dealer besmirched their U4s. In a business where client realtionships are at stake, things can get ugly very quickly. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2006
Susan Konig |
A Big Trade Off? For advisors looking for further independence through a registered investment advisory firm, compliance burdens can increase. Reps working under an independent b/d's umbrella RIA, also known as "dually registered" advisors, must comply with both NASD and SEC rules. |
Financial Advisor
March 2011
Jeff Schlegel |
Is Uniformity Possible? Broker-dealers expect some changes if a new fiduciary standard is adopted. |
Registered Rep.
March 2, 2006
John Churchill |
NASD Promotes Its Online Education Program Called the E-learning Exchange, the NASD created the online education tool for reps and firms last May in order to help securities firms head off compliance and regulatory problems before they start. |
Financial Advisor
May 2004
Alan Lavine |
Dramatic Changes Loom For Mutual Fund, Annuities Sales Proposed disclosure rules could hurt level-load sales. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2006
Joan Warner |
FP50: Where the Growth Is With their market share growing 20% a year and the boomer generation's accumulated treasure to deploy, independent broker-dealers are on a prosperous path. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2007
Donald Jay Korn |
FP50: Pressure Points It's a great time to be in financial services. But broker-dealers' challenges are growing as fast as their opportunities. |
Financial Advisor
January 2006
Tracey Longo |
Working Smarter, Not Harder As more independent broker-dealers set themselves up as strategic outsourcing partners, they are finding bigger and better firms driven to their door by stagnant or shrinking profit margins and the accelerating compliance melee. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2010
Brian Hamburger |
Regulation Season A look forward at the real effects of regulatory change - and they could be as unattractive as they are expensive. |
Investment Advisor
August 2008
Thomas D. Giachetti |
The Three Troubling Themes How to combat compliance misunderstanding and misdirection. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2007
Marshall Eckblad |
FP50: Behind the Numbers Revenues among the top 50 broker-dealers soared, costs fell and reps took home more money than ever. But the biggest winners in this year's survey were fee-based products. |
Investment Advisor
January 2006
Kathleen M. McBride |
Balancing Act The broker/dealer model is changing, spurred by business and regulatory pressures, and reps may stop talking to their clients. |
Financial Advisor
August 2012
Karen DeMasters |
The Great Migration Though they aren't moving as fast as they were a few years ago, advisors are still in play for independent broker-dealers. |
Financial Advisor
December 2009
Eric Rasmussen |
Big Guys Fight Back Broker-dealers try to find their bearings in 2010 as their antagonists push back. |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2008
Jeanne Lee |
Regulatory Roundup With regulatory agencies under political pressure to take a tougher stance on investor protections, financial advisors need to stay abreast of a number of proposed rule changes that could come online in 2008. |
Wall Street & Technology
August 27, 2004
Jessica Pallay |
Building the Right Team With no sign of waning regulations, compliance officers remain essential to the architecture of the securities industry. |
Financial Advisor
April 2004
David J. Drucker |
Living With The Rules How to keep the SEC happy without going out of business. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2010
Paul Menchaca |
Survivor Island Firms that endured the worst of the financial crisis and lived to tell about it. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2012
Jennifer Woods Burke |
Gotcha! Audits Get Tougher This year, the SEC and FINRA launched a webinar for firms detailing their expectations and reaffirming that whether a firm is large or small, regulators expect the same level of diligence when it comes to audits. |
Investment Advisor
June 2006
Kathleen M. McBride |
Stretched For broker/dealers who are already stressed, dually registered advisors are a challenge being met in varied ways. |
Financial Advisor
March 2005
Tracey Longo |
The Watchdog Inside Your Firm The SEC is making your chief compliance officer a whistleblower. Advisors' success with regulators in 2005 will depend largely on whether they trip themselves up or are able to create a business model that is better aligned with their clients. |
Wall Street & Technology
March 1, 2004 |
Getting Management on Board With Compliance Compliance and litigation readiness have blasted up the priority list of top management. Leading financial institutions have appointed general counsel into top management roles. Boards of directors are reviewing and approving technology solutions. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2005
Black & Liptow |
FP50: The Rising Tide Among the 50 largest independent financial advisory firms--this year's FP50--revenues and assets under management were up, and losses were down. The leaders are holding their top slots, while many newbies are growing at a dramatic clip. |
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. |
Financial Advisor
March 2012
Eric Rasmussen |
Swimming In Shallow Water Broker-dealers face a stagnant rep pool, shrinking margins and the choke hold of regulators. But it's been a boon to the biggest consolidators. |
Registered Rep.
April 15, 2015
Megan Leonhardt |
Regulators Concerned B/Ds Recommending Unsuitable Products to Seniors With seniors more dependent than ever on their investments for retirement, regulators have found a number of broker/dealers may have recommended unsuitable products and not adequately disclosed risks. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2007
John J. Bowen |
Policing Your Practice If you build an effective compliance system, your firm will be more appealing to both clients and buyers. Here's how to build a great compliance system. |
Investment Advisor
December 2006
Kathleen M. McBride |
Three-Part Harmony Financial advisors, sing along as the SEC is set to look at proposals for regulatory rules that have been harmonized in an attempt to eliminate, or greatly reduce, conflicts, duplication, and confusion, in a new hybrid set of rules. |
Investment Advisor
October 2008
Bob Clark |
The Real Deal MarketCounsel is focused on taking the independent advisory model to the next level. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2006
Jane Worthington |
Accounting for Compliance Instead of viewing compliance as a necessary evil, financial advisors should see it as a cost of doing business and learn how to quantify that cost. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
Lauren Barack |
Will Reform Drive Brokers From 529 Sales? Emerging from 529 college savings plan hearings is a proposal for new disclosure guidelines aimed at giving consumers more knowledge about various plan choices at the point of sale. However, these guidelines may drive reps and financial advisors out of the 529 business. |
Financial Advisor
June 2011
David Lawrence |
A New Dawn More firms may merge or form strategic alliances in the wake of new rules that require small advisors to switch regulators. |
Wall Street & Technology
May 30, 2007
Melanie Rodier |
Market for Wealth Management Compliance Systems Set to Jump 15% by 2011 Investment advisors are expected to spend the most on technology as they are among the fastest growing and most regulated group of advisors. But hedge funds are also likely to increase IT spending. |
Investment Advisor
April 2007
Kara P. Stapleton |
A Compliance Culture Recent NASD actions have led to increased compliance efforts on the part of many independent broker-dealers. |
Investment Advisor
June 2007
Kathleen M. McBride |
Interesting Times Independent broker/dealers find opportunity in the face of changing winds. |
Bank Director
2nd Quarter 2010
Jack Milligan |
Knee Deep in Regulation As part of the fallout from the latest financial crisis, bankers are wading through new layers of regulation while scanning for clearer skies ahead. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2010
Trone & Harvey |
The New Rules of the Road The following four regulatory reforms will likely have the most impact on the financial services industry over the next 24 months. Here's a short synopsis of what they will require. |
Investment Advisor
February 1, 2011
John Sullivan |
FSI OneVoice 2011: FINRA CEO Ketchum Defines Fiduciary as It Applies to BDs, Advisors The Financial Services Institute's OneVoice 2011 conference kicked off in Phoenix Monday night with a question-and-answer session with Richard G. Ketchum, chairman and CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. |
Investment Advisor
April 21, 2011
John Sullivan |
Commonwealth Financial to Allow Rep Access to Social Media Beginning in early June of 2011, it would allow its advisors to use social media, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and blogs. |
Investment Advisor
April 1, 2011
Jonathan Henschen |
Making the Case for Midsized Broker-Dealers Between financial viability and less cumbersome compliance burdens, midsized BDs have a lot going for them |
