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Registered Rep.
December 21, 2004
Will Leitch |
Ed Jones Agrees to Pay $75 Million in Revenue-Sharing Case Edward Jones has agreed to a $75 million settlement with the SEC, the NASD and the New York Stock Exchange as punishment for failing to disclose to clients information about the firm's revenue-sharing arrangements with mutual funds.   |
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? |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2008
Andrew Ackerman |
In First, Mass. Sues UBS In the first state-level lawsuit against an investment firm over auction-rate securities, Massachusetts has filed securities fraud charges against UBS for selling retail investors auction-rate paper as "liquid, safe, money-market" instruments even though the defendants knew it was not. |
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.
March 17, 2011
Diana Britton |
Securities America Faces Settlement Hearing Friday; Legal Liabilities Up in the Air Securities America will face a federal court judge to decide whether the independent broker/dealer gets preliminary approval for a $21 million settlement agreement related to private placements sold by the company. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Overtime Settlements Stacking Up Citigroup agreed in mid-May to pay a record $98 million to past and present advisors to settle their overtime-pay claims. It's the fourth major financial firm to settle a class-action suit regarding overtime pay within the past 10 months. |
Registered Rep.
March 3, 2006
Halah Tourylai |
Third Wirehouse Coughs Up Millions In Overtime Cases Yesterday, Morgan Stanley became the third wirehouse, after Merrill Lynch and UBS, to settle class action suits with California brokers over overtime pay in the past seven months -- the second in three weeks. |
Registered Rep.
December 12, 2006
John Churchill |
Spitzer: Thousands of UBS Clients Raped by Wraps The New York Attorney General's Office announced today that it is suing UBS Financial Services for allegedly defrauding thousands of customers through its InsightOne fee-based brokerage program. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2005
Kristen French |
The New New Thing at AEFA Since launching its unique three-tier career-track system in 2000, the company has regularly tweaked payouts, fees, incentives and training and affiliation options. Now, the recently announced spinoff from American Express may force it to rethink itself once again. |
Registered Rep.
September 10, 2008 |
Bank of America to Buy Its ARs Back The nation's second-largest bank by assets settled an investigation by Massachusetts regulators, agreeing to buy back $4.5 billion worth of the securities. |
Registered Rep.
February 9, 2006
John Churchill |
Pro Or Hourly Wage Earner? UBS Pays $89 Million to Settle Overtime Suits The settlement resolves claims that UBS incorrectly classified financial advisors and financial advisor trainees as exempt from overtime pay under federal and U.S. state laws. |
Registered Rep.
October 24, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Ameriprise Branches Face Potential Fines for Fake Financial Plans Ameriprise Financial Services has long been accused of possessing a culture that's more concerned with sales commissions than compliance. |
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.
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. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Everybody Wants Their Overtime UBS said it has agreed to pay $89 million to settle class-action wage and hours claims of reps filed this past summer in several federal courts. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2004
Joan Warner |
The Great Experiment In an effort to hang on to its best producers and lure a fresh crop, American Express Financial Advisors launched triple career tracks for its reps. |
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. |
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.
April 6, 2004
Will Leitch |
SEC Investigates Edward Jones' Fund Sales Edward Jones--a firm that hasn't attracted much regulatory scrutiny over the years--has been under considerable fire of late, thanks mainly to previously undisclosed revenue-sharing arrangements. |
Registered Rep.
May 22, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Brokers Ring Up Another Big Overtime-Pay Settlement Citigroup has agreed to pay a up to $98 million, a record-breaking figure, to past and present advisors to settle their overtime-pay claims. |
Registered Rep.
February 18, 2009
John Churchill |
UBS Nailed With $780 Million Fine, Admits To Aiding Tax Dodge Clients The U.S. government has taken its pound of flesh from UBS today. According to a Department of Justice press release. |
Registered Rep.
February 25, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Wells Fargo Settles Sex Discrimination Claims For $32 Million Wells Fargo Advisors has tentatively agreed to a $32 million settlement of a federal class-action gender discrimination lawsuit brought in 2009 by three women financial advisors who worked at its legacy Wachovia Securities brokerage. |
Registered Rep.
September 3, 2008
John Churchill |
Brokers Charged In Fraudulently Selling $1bn Of ARS To Retail Clients In the first case of its kind, the SEC announced today that it has charged two individual financial advisors with fraud related to the sale of more than $1 billion in auction-rate securities. |
Registered Rep.
March 4, 2009
John Churchill |
SEC Sued by Stanford Group Advisors for Violation of Constitutional Rights The SEC has frozen client accounts of Stanford Financial Group advisors, and has ordered them not to communicate with their clients. The advisors are fighting back. |
Registered Rep.
June 24, 2004
John Churchill |
Morgan Stanley Sued by New Hampshire Regulators New Hampshire securities regulators are suing Morgan Stanley, charging that in 2002 the firm encouraged its brokers to sell proprietary mutual funds by using sales contests, a violation of NASD rules. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2005 |
By the Numbers Top 10 Broker/Dealers, by Advisor Headcount: Merrill Lynch... Wachovia... Smith Barney... Morgan Stanley... etc. |
Registered Rep.
June 5, 2006
John Churchill |
Edward Jones' to Pay for Revenue Sharing, Still Faces Civil Complaints The financial firm will soon be writing a lot of checks to a lot of clients: $75 million in checks, to be exact. The payday is actually a payback per the terms of Jones' 2004 settlement with regulators for inadequate disclosure of revenue-sharing practices in its mutual funds sales. |
Registered Rep.
May 8, 2008 |
UBS Needs A Lift Ticket UBS is facing serious scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice to determine whether or not the bank aided clients in committing tax evasion from 2000 to 2007. |
Investment Advisor
August 2009 |
B/D News Broker/Dealer news: SEC Enforcement... BOA and broker protocol... FINRA surveys retail sales practices... |
Registered Rep.
July 28, 2011
Diana Britton |
Ameriprise: Rep Productivity at New High; Securities America Sale in `Near Future' Advisor productivity reached a new high for Ameriprise Financial. |
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. |
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. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2011
Donna Mitchell |
Hot Topics FINRA steps in... $80 million settlement of two class-action suits by Securities America... Whistleblower payday... |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Score One for Diversity UBS has hired a prominent black Smith Barney broker. |
Registered Rep.
April 25, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Women Win Another Round: Morgan Stanley to Pay $46 million in Gender Discrimination Settlement The financial firm decided it will shell out over $46 million to 2,700 female advisors and trainees who say the firm discriminated against them with respect to account distributions, compensation, training and promotions. |
Registered Rep.
August 6, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
UBS Advisors Welcome Mortgage Rollout Financial advisors at UBS Wealth Management Americas closely watched this week as the U.S. brokerage rolled out plans to sell more of its own mortgage and lending products through its retail brokerage force. |
Registered Rep.
March 28, 2011
Diana Britton |
Securities America Nears Resolution With Plaintiffs Securities America has made "substantial progress" in its mediation with plaintiffs' attorneys involved in class action suits against the independent broker/dealer. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Next Year's Model If the one-stop shop is out, what new formula will take its place? In many ways, the Citi/Legg Mason swap looks like an ideal prototype. The thing is, a swap like that is not likely to be repeated. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Our Diversity Problem Is there rampant discrimination on Wall Street or is it just a few bad apples giving the industry a bad name? Either way, the industry's efforts to hire -- and promote -- women and minorities have not produced impressive results. |
Registered Rep.
July 14, 2008
Halah Touryalai |
Morgan Stanley Offers $50 million In Overtime Settlement The settlement covers all financial advisors, trainees, producing branch managers, assistant branch managers and sales managers who live outside of California and were employed with the New York-based firm between Sept. 1, 2002, and April 21, 2008. |
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.
May 17, 2006
John Churchill |
Monster Arbitration Ruling Against Ameriprise Unit An NASD Arbitration panel awarded 32 retired Exxon employees a total of $22 million in damages for losses suffered when their broker put most of their savings in variable annuities and B-share mutual funds. |
Registered Rep.
March 15, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
McCann Is the Man at UBS; Name Change to PaineWebber? The much-anticipated revival plan for UBS Wealth Management Americas will cap off a series of recent organizational changes garnering support from an important constituency: advisors at the beleaguered brokerage. |
Registered Rep.
November 9, 2010
Kristen French |
UBS Hires Three From Morgan Stanley As Recruiting Wars Intensify The war for talent is as fierce as ever, with some firms like UBS issuing a press release every time they make a big new hire. |
Registered Rep.
September 3, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
UBS Hires Four HNW Advisors The latest hires by UBS Wealth Management Americas reflect its goal of attracting business from the ultra rich in mostly major metropolitan markets in the United States. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2007 |
Comings & Goings Charles Schwab Corporation has named Walt Bettinger president and chief operating officer... UBS hired Greg Jones as head of diversity for UBS Wealth Management... etc. |
Registered Rep.
May 9, 2011
Gleeson & Britton |
New SEC Disclosure Rules Dismay Some Advisors; Advisor Disciplinary Histories in Welcome Packets New SEC rules that require federally-registered advisors to disclose their disciplinary histories in brochures and provide them to clients will get under way in earnest by the end of the summer. |
Registered Rep.
October 5, 2011
John Aidan Byrne |
UBS Says Headhunters Playing Dirty, Unfairly Smearing the Firm Despite extensive media coverage describing nervous financial advisors and clients at the firm, insiders contend that much of this unflattering coverage is over-the-top. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2011
Kristen French |
Broker Report Card 2011: It's Getting Better All the Time Registered Rep.'s 21st annual Broker Report Cards showed advisor satisfaction ratings creeping higher this year across the board -- on everything from compensation and benefits, compliance support and sales support to products. |
Registered Rep.
April 25, 2011
Diana Britton |
Ameriprise to Shed Securities America Amid Pending Settlement The company plans to sell its independent broker/dealer unit Securities America, while the firm is still in the process of finalizing a settlement with investors claiming SAI sold allegedly fraudulent private placement. |
