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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. |
Registered Rep. August 29, 2006 Kristen French |
Pru Agrees to $600 Million Market-Timing Settlement Prudential Equity Group admitted to criminal wrongdoing in connection with the market-timing practices of a number of its brokers between 1999 and June, 2003. |
Registered Rep. October 1, 2005 |
Blotter Lawyers, Drugs and Money... More Market-Timing Fallout... Bank of America in Hot Seat... |
Registered Rep. November 5, 2003 Churchill & Gaffen |
Pru Market-Timing Charges Widen The investigation into mutual fund trading abuses is widening, with the release of a complaint filed by the Massachusetts Securities Division against brokers who formerly worked in Prudential Securities' hub office in Boston. |
Registered Rep. February 9, 2007 Kevin Burke |
SEC Big Says Waiver Tactics Can Backfire An SEC commissioner today said that asking broker/dealers and investment advisory firms to waive their legal right to attorney-client privilege in order to speed up the pace of enforcement investigations is shortsighted. |
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. |
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 Dwyer & Thornton |
Mutual Funds Feel The Heat Did they feed information to hedge funds, brokers, and others? |
Registered Rep. August 1, 2006 John Churchill |
Hall of Shame Robert Brennan: Found guilty of stock fraud and fined $75 million... Meyer Blinder: Sentenced to 46 months in prison for racketeering, money laundering and stock fraud in 1992... etc. |
Registered Rep. December 1, 2003 David A. Gaffen |
Suddenly, A Monster Wachovia Securities has gradually, then all of a sudden, emerged as a monster brokerage firm. But Wachovia management insists that its Richmond roots aren't the only difference between it and its New York-based rivals. |
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. |
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. June 1, 2005 Karen Donovan |
No More Slap on the Wrist Regulators are getting tough and creative on registered reps because they suspect that fines aren't a strong enough deterrent to stop illegal behavior. |
Registered Rep. February 19, 2010 Christina Mucciolo |
FINRA Seeks to Expand BrokerCheck, Make Some Records Permanent The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority announced it is seeking the SEC's approval to expand the amount of information made public on current and former brokers' permanent records in its free online CRD database, BrokerCheck. |
Registered Rep. December 1, 2006 John Churchill |
Blotter Shelf Space No No... Broker Gets 14 Years... |
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. September 21, 2007 Halah Touryalai |
Banks Officially Welcomed into the Brokerage World Under New SEC Rule It only took eight years, but the SEC and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System passed final rules defining how banks can act as securities brokers. |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2003 William Jacobson |
Feeling Their Pain Analyst fraud has made for strange bedfellows. Normally, customers and brokers have nothing in common when it comes to investment losses. When it comes to tech, however, you and your customers rode the stocks down together as your firm's analysts kept shouting, "Strong Buy." |
The Motley Fool May 21, 2010 Jennifer Schonberger |
The Senate's Cop Cracks Down on Financial Fraud "Fraud and potential criminal conduct were at the heart of the financial crisis," Senator Ted Kaufman (D, Del) said in a speech last month on the Senate floor. |
CFO January 30, 2004 Tim Reason |
Cheese It, the States! Corporate wrong-doers are finding state cops more aggressive than the feds. |
Registered Rep. January 17, 2003 Rick Weinberg |
Pru Tells Admin Managers To Dump Books Prudential Securities informed all of its administrative managers at the beginning of the year that if they were also producing brokers, they were no longer going to be paid commissions, according to sources. |
Registered Rep. November 27, 2002 Will Leitch |
Going Upstream Prudential gives up bringing the U.S. brokerage model to the Old World. |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 David Weiss |
Living with Reg SHO The new regulation opened up the possibility of completing a short sale without worrying if it complied with the uptick or bid test, and put into affect rules requiring greater effort on the part of brokers and other participants in the securities industry to ensure that short sales were covered. |
The Motley Fool March 21, 2007 S.J. Caplan |
Check Out Your Broker A redesigned website tells you what you need to know before you invest. |
On Wall Street June 1, 2010 Mark Astarita |
Tilting the Litigation Landscape Against the Financial Industry Current reform proposals could radically alter the broker-client relationship. |
Registered Rep. January 13, 2003 Gaffen & Geracioti |
Wachovia-Prudential: For Real This Time? Can you say Pru-chovia? Prudential Securities and Wachovia Securities are very close to an agreement to join forces, one that was scuttled earlier in the year, reportedly due to differences in who would control the unit. |
Registered Rep. August 20, 2004 |
Meting out Justice: NASD Issues 'Extraordinary Remedy' on Broker/Dealer for Market-Timing Abuse In its investigation, the regulator found that from January 2001 through August 2002, National helped four hedge fund clients conduct market-timing in 13 funds that prohibited or restricted such activity. |
Registered Rep. November 30, 2005 Kristen French |
Wachovia Shaves Payout, Levels Charges on In-House and Outside SMAs After simplifying it's payout structure earlier this year, Wachovia Securities announced that it would make some more tweaks in 2006 and raise ticket charges on some in-house money-management products to match those of third-party products. |
The Motley Fool October 25, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Brokers for Expert Investors Have you outgrown your brokerage account? When you're just getting started with investing, comparing brokerage firms is pretty easy. But when you go beyond the basics, you need a broker who provides more. |
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. October 14, 2002 Rick Weinberg |
Small Investors Ding Pru for $260 million. One of largest awards for small investors ever in case of broker The class-action suit claimed that Prudential broker Jeffrey Pickett sold his clients' shares without authorization in 1998. |
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. |
InternetNews October 23, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Online Brokers Hit By Fraudsters SEC and other regulators investigate millions in losses of E*Trade and TD Ameritrade customers. |
BusinessWeek August 30, 2004 Amy Borrus |
Brokers Aren't Advisers The line between brokers and advisers was clear for decades. But in 1999, the Securities & Exchange Commission blurred that line. Now, to protect investors, the SEC must redraw a clear line. |
Registered Rep. October 1, 2002 Rick Weinberg |
Morgan Stanley Boosts Pay for Fee Business Morgan Stanley unveiled a new compensation plan for brokers that rewards fee-based business and penalizes transactional business. |
Investment Advisor May 2007 |
The Original SEC Rule The Security and Exchange Commission's original decision on the broker/dealer exemption rule exempting brokers from regulation as an investment advisor even when they were being paid fees for investment advice. |
Investment Advisor July 2007 Kara P. Stapleton |
News & Products Wachovia announced that it will acquire A. G. Edwards and fold it into Wachovia Securities... Prudential Financial is closing Prudential Equity Group, suspending the group's institutional equity research coverage and discontinuing the equity group's trading and sales arms in 13 cities... etc. |
Investment Advisor August 2008 |
Do You Believe Your Own Rhetoric? Many breakaway brokers spend more time designing a logo and picking out office furniture than they do planning their exit strategy. |
Registered Rep. September 1, 2004 John Churchill |
Handcuffs Made of Gold Deferred-Comp Plans Can be an Advisor's Lucrative Friend... Should I Stay or Should I go?... |
Registered Rep. April 1, 2006 Mindy Diamond |
On the Rebound Big firms are sending low-producing brokers messages that they are no longer as wanted as they once were. Brokers who see the handwriting on the wall, may have better options if they jump to another firm before being pushed. |
Registered Rep. April 1, 2003 David A. Gaffen |
Your Book or Your Life! What would you do if you lost your book? Where would you turn for new customers? Where could you be hired? Those are questions that keep many advisors up at night. |
Registered Rep. December 1, 2004 Mindy Diamond |
Packing the Parachute Success in the brokerage industry can be as much about mindset as anything else, so it comes as little surprise that advisors avoid negative thoughts, such as the potential necessity of a quick exit from their practice. |
BusinessWeek November 10, 2003 Dwyer & Borrus |
The Coming Mutual-Fund Reforms As mutual-fund abuses mount, regulators and lawmakers promise tough new rules. |
Registered Rep. May 2, 2007 John Churchill |
SEC Fines A.G. Edwards for Failure to Supervise Add A.G. Edwards to the long list of firms that have been fined by the SEC for long-ago failures to supervise brokers who deceptively market timed mutual funds. |
The Motley Fool November 24, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Get What You Want From Your Broker Rather than imposing a one-rule-fits-all approach to fiduciary duty, what the SEC should do is give customers the ultimate choice when it comes to deciding what relationship they want with their brokers. |
Registered Rep. January 1, 2003 Gaffen & Geracioti |
What's Going to Happen to the Rock? The Prudential unit seems like a serious candidate for a sale. It has been losing money and been a perennial under-performer. |
The Motley Fool March 22, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
This Will Make You a Smarter Investor There's more to smart money management than just picking great stocks. Increasingly, it's becoming just as important to find the right discount broker to give you the best and least expensive access to the investments you want. |
Registered Rep. December 1, 2005 Kristen French |
Wachovia: Back on Track Wachovia is back in good graces with its brokers. The many integration headaches of the firm's merger with Prudential Securities have finally subsided. Reps polled say management has tackled a number of improvements. |
Bank Systems & Technology November 17, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Obama Orders Creation of Financial Fraud Task Force The Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, an interagency initiative, will rely on the coordinated efforts of each member to prevent another financial crisis. The new task force replaces the Corporate Fraud Task Force. |
Wall Street & Technology April 26, 2005 Ivy Schmerken |
Broker Research: What's It Worth? The securities industry is hoping that the SEC will clear up the uncertainties surrounding soft dollars and determine once and for all who is responsible for placing a value on proprietary research. |
InternetNews October 9, 2006 Roy Mark |
Feds Indict Two For Internet Scam Bogus online auctions for Hurricane Katrina victims leads to charges of wire and identity fraud. |