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Chemistry World
November 23, 2012
Andrew Turley |
Record insider trading case hits pharma US authorities claim that in 2008 Mathew Martoma, a hedge fund manager, was able to avoid losses of $194 million and make gains of $82 million in response to confidential clinical trial data.   |
U.S. Banker
September 2007
Lee Conrad |
Oversight: Hedge Fund Transparency At Issue...Again The Securities & Exchange Commission is attempting to shine a spotlight on the most opaque of investments-hedge funds-by creating a working group in its enforcement division to combat insider trading. |
CFO
February 1, 2006
Don Durfee |
Meet Your New Bankers Hedge funds have a pile of cash to lend. Should you take it? |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2007 |
Blotter SEC Front Running Probe... NASD Fines Bank of America... |
Investment Advisor
March 2007
Melanie Waddell |
States' Rights The North American Securities Administrators Association's agenda includes preserving state regulators' authority. |
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. |
Investment Advisor
December 2006
Melanie Waddell |
Democrats and Hedge Funds Will the new party in power turn up the regulatory heat? The SEC itself has gotten more vigilant and expanded its enforcement activities against hedge funds. |
BusinessWeek
February 17, 2011
Elliot Blair Smith |
A Hedge Fund's Moves Mimic Insider Dealings SAC's buying and selling parallel some trades based on tips. |
BusinessWeek
December 27, 2004
Emily Thornton |
Hedge Funds Find An Escape Hatch The loophole: Locked-up funds don't require oversight. That means more risk for investors. |
BusinessWeek
March 12, 2007
Matthew Goldstein |
Homing In On Trading Abuses Do allegations that a UBS worker sold info to hedge funds signal a growing problem? |
CFO
October 1, 2006
Alix Nyberg Stuart |
Are Your Secrets Safe? A shift in banks' business model raises questions about conflicts. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
October 20, 2003
Dwyer & Thornton |
Mutual Funds Feel The Heat Did they feed information to hedge funds, brokers, and others? |
Registered Rep.
October 25, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Another One Bites the Dust: Broker Fined Record Amount for Market-Timing Scheme The NASD fined Paul Saunders, a registered rep, CEO and majority owner of James River Capital Corporation, $2.25 million. That sum represents the largest fine against an individual for marketing timing, including disgorgement of about $750,000 in illegal profits. |
CFO
January 30, 2004
Tim Reason |
Cheese It, the States! Corporate wrong-doers are finding state cops more aggressive than the feds. |
BusinessWeek
July 19, 2004
Borrus & Dwyer |
Lobbying For Laissez-Faire Hedge funds are pouring money into campaign coffers in the U.S. to stop SEC regulation. |
Financial Advisor
November 2005
Bruce W. Fraser |
Hedge Funds Continue To Mushroom While the sector is experiencing growing pains and a high mortality rate, the major challenge hedge funds face today is building capacity to meet growing demand for higher returns from institutions and high-net-worth individuals. |
BusinessWeek
October 30, 2006
Emily Thornton |
A Steady Drip of Buyout Leaks The Justice Dept. is investigating several cases where insiders may have traded on nonpublic information. |
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2005
Christopher O' Leary |
The Fund Family That Said No While in the past few years many funds sued by regulators have been quick to settle, American, the second-largest fund family in the U.S. with $650 billion in assets is fighting back. |
BusinessWeek
October 21, 2009
Farzad & Francis |
The SEC's Tough New Offensive on Insider Trading It's using wiretaps, informants, and high-tech software, as well as teaming with key federal prosecutors, to nab wrongdoers fast. |
Registered Rep.
August 17, 2005
Kevin Burke |
NASD Tightens Noose on Hedge Fund Sales Practices A top National Association of Security Dealers official said on Wednesday that the regulatory agency has launched an investigation into brokers selling hedge funds to individual investors without alerting them to the potential risks. |
BusinessWeek
March 21, 2005
Amy Borrus |
Wall Street's Dirty Rotten Little Scoundrels The SEC has a new plan to turn up the heat on small-time Wall Street fraudsters. |
BusinessWeek
May 20, 2010
Jesse Westbrook & David Scheer |
How Big a Hit Will Goldman Take? Congress and the public expect the SEC to extract a big fine |
Investment Advisor
July 2008
Melanie Waddell |
SEC Chairmen of Yore Speak Six former SEC chairmen pointed to quite a few regulatory challenges that loom large -- namely globalization of the world markets, the burgeoning market for complex synthetic securities, and the continued growth of hedge funds. |
On Wall Street
August 1, 2009
Mark Astarita |
Changes at the SEC: Schapiro Should Be Benefit to Advisors One can expect that as head of the SEC Mary Schapiro will understand the impact of new rule proposals and enforcement initiatives and will temper the calls for more extreme changes that would ultimately harm the markets and the financial industry. |
Wall Street & Technology
August 20, 2007
Melanie Rodier |
Traditional Investigation Methods and New Tech Help Catch Insider Traders As insider trading rises globally, regulators and banks are using complex event processing and remote-control software to catch rogue traders. |
BusinessWeek
November 21, 2005
Anne Tergesen |
Hedge Fund Sleuths For sizable fees, hedge fund sleuths put secretive investment partnerships under a microscope. |
Registered Rep.
October 26, 2004
David A. Gaffen |
Citi Fined by NASD for Hedge Fund Marketing Citigroup was censured and fined, but neither admitted nor denied the charges. A company spokeswoman said the firm "took immediate action in cooperating fully with the NASD to make sure all materials comply with current NASD guidance." |
Investment Advisor
August 2006
Melanie Waddell |
The Playing Field: Will the SEC Appeal? Hedge fund advisor registration has been an extremely contentious issue. Some feel there will be grave consequences for the SEC and the investing public should the House bill requiring registration be shot down. |
Financial Advisor
November 2003
Alan Lavine |
Alternate Ways To Hedge Portfolios Should you put your well-heeled clients into unregistered or registered hedge funds? Or is it better to select a mutual fund that uses hedge-fund tactics and is managed by a registered investment company? |
Registered Rep.
February 11, 2004
John Churchill |
Dueling Trend Lines on Complaints Brokers have become more attuned to investor complaints in recent years, but they must be forgiven if they're having a hard time drawing conclusions from the trend numbers reported by regulators. |
On Wall Street
November 1, 2012
Mason Braswell |
Regulators Cite Trouble Spots Are firms doing all they can when it comes to handling material non-public info? |
CFO
May 1, 2008
Alix Stuart |
All in the Families The SEC is aiming to sniff out improper relationships, including insider trading, between hedge funds and the companies they invest in. |
Wall Street & Technology
January 5, 2005
Maria Santos |
The Cost of Compliance The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has come under scrutiny again following the adoption of a recent rule regarding hedge funds. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
March 2, 2011
Abelson et al. |
With Dodd-Frank, the SEC Goes After Big Game The SEC's expanded administrative powers under Dodd-Frank helped shape its insider-training case against business legend Rajat Gupta |
CFO
February 1, 2005
Ronald Fink |
Finders Keepers The SEC is hearing new demands to make it easier for small companies to raise capital. |
Financial Advisor
February 2007
Thomas M. Kostigen |
Firm Offers Reps Their Own Hedge Funds Independent broker-dealer First Allied's program raises questions about risk and conflicts. |
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. |
Bank Systems & Technology
April 16, 2010
Penny Crosman |
SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Fraud in Structuring, Marketing of CDOs "The product was new and complex but the deception and conflicts are old and simple," said Robert Khuzami, director of the division of enforcement. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2005 |
Blotter Not-So-Hot IPO: The NASD fined Thomas Weisel Partners for levying exorbitant commission charges on "hot" IPO shares... Expelled, Reinstated, Expelled: Brokerage firm LH Ross was officially expelled from the securities industry and fined... etc. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
SEC Cracks Insider-Trading Ring The SEC has charged 14 individuals -- including employees of UBS and Morgan Stanley -- with participating in two insider-trading schemes that generated at least $15 million in illegal profits. |
Registered Rep.
March 15, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Merrill Fined $2.5 Million Over Lax Email Oversight The SEC slapped the nation's largest brokerage with a $2.5 million fine and a cease-and-desist order for a "systemic" mishandling of email records related to its brokerage business. |
The Motley Fool
January 10, 2012
Lawrence Greenberg |
Why Congress Isn't Liable for Insider Trading Has Congress exempted itself from the laws that send ordinary Americans to jail if they engage in insider trading? |
Investment Advisor
January 2009
Jeff Joseph |
More Regulation Post-Madoff? The only thing they are certain of is that his alleged Ponzi scheme. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Blotter SEC Busts Another Ponzi... Broker Bends for Hedgies... NASD Says Firm Ignored Red Flags... |
BusinessWeek
October 6, 2003
Stephen B. Shepard |
Straight Talk from Eliot Spitzer The New York Attorney General speaks on the mutual-fund investigations and other issues |
Registered Rep.
April 16, 2010
French & Mucciolo |
Breaking News: SEC Sues Goldman Sachs For Fraud on CDOs The Securities Exchange Commission sued Goldman Sachs for fraud in connection with mortgage-backed collateralized debt obligations it packaged and sold to investors, securities that have been blamed for 2008-2009 financial collapse. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2008 |
Blotter SEC filed a civil action against five unregistered Florida brokers who were operating a pump-and-dump scheme... Third largest hedge fund fraud ever... |
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. |
