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Registered Rep. March 21, 2006 Kevin Burke |
Former Prudential Broker Barred for Market Timing A federal judge barred for life a former Prudential Securities broker for failing to respond to an order instituting proceedings issued by the SEC over fraud charges. But that may be the least of his worries. |
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. 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. October 1, 2005 |
Blotter Lawyers, Drugs and Money... More Market-Timing Fallout... Bank of America in Hot Seat... |
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. January 12, 2006 John Churchill |
UBS Dinged $50 Million for Market Timing New York Stock Exchange Regulation, along with the New Jersey Bureau of Securities, today announced that UBS Financial Services was fined $49.5 million for failure to supervise the deceptive market timing activities of its brokers. |
Registered Rep. July 25, 2007 Kevin Burke |
Smith Barney Fined $50 Million for Market Timing; More Firms, Reps To Be Fined So you thought the market timing scandal was over? Think again. |
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. 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. |
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. January 8, 2003 Will Leitch |
NASD: Firms Are Overcharging Clients The NASD, acting on a tip acquired during an investigation, has sent several brokerage firms word that it has discovered brokers are not providing earned discounts to mutual fund investors, therefore overcharging them. |
Registered Rep. March 16, 2006 John Churchill |
Bear Stearns Fined $250 Million for Securities Fraud The SEC's investigation found that from 1999 through September 2003, the firm provided technology, advice and deceptive devices that helped market timers and late traders evade the firm's own systems as well as those of mutual funds. |
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. |
Investment Advisor April 2008 |
News & Products, April 2008 FINRA has settled cases against five firms... Fidelity Investments has agreed to pay an $8 million penalty... FINRA fined and suspended 16 registered reps of State Farm VP Management Corp. of Bloomington, Illinois... etc. |
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. |
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. November 1, 2006 John Churchill |
Blotter SEC Busts Another Ponzi... Broker Bends for Hedgies... NASD Says Firm Ignored Red Flags... |
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 Dwyer & Thornton |
Mutual Funds Feel The Heat Did they feed information to hedge funds, brokers, and others? |
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. |
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. |
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 1, 2005 |
Blotter Cooked Books... Direct Violation... Busted Market Timers... |
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. |
Registered Rep. October 13, 2005 John Churchill |
Market-Timer Banned and Fined Theodore Sihpol III, the former broker at Banc of America Securities (BAS) and poster boy for the market-timing scandals, agreed to pay a $200,000 fine and to accept a five-year ban from the securities industry. |
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. |
Registered Rep. April 1, 2008 John Churchill |
The Failure Chain Consider the curious and rather grotesque case of Gary J. Gross, a financial advisor from Boca Raton, Fla. Gross' U4 is close to 100 pages long, and lists 35 customer complaints. |
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. 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. |
Registered Rep. February 1, 2003 Will Leitch |
NASD Investigates Potential Breakpoint Violations The confusing slew of regulations that have followed on the heels of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has tapped a strange feeling in brokers: the fear of violating securities rules unwittingly. A recent investigation by the NASD shows their worries are not unfounded. |
Investment Advisor October 2006 Kathleen M. McBride |
News & Products How sweet it is: KeyCorp is selling its McDonald Investments branch network to UBS... More than a slap: Prudential Securities, Inc. was ordered to pay $600 million to regulators... etc. |
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. |
Registered Rep. September 3, 2003 David Gaffen |
NASD: Brokers With Complaints Need A Watchful Eye Heed the red flags. This is the thrust of a new NASD proposal that would require brokerage houses to devote extra supervision to reps with extensive numbers of complaints or regulatory actions against them. |
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. May 1, 2006 |
Blotter Mob Brokerage Bust... Footballing Felon Broker... |
Wall Street & Technology March 2, 2004 Jessica Pallay |
Give Me a Break Breakpoints may give investors a break, but Wall Street's CIOs are working overtime to comply with regulators' wishes. |
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. 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. 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. |
Registered Rep. July 1, 2006 John Churchill |
Blotter SEC Tackles Wachovia Insider... Supervisory Meltdown... Market Timing Geeks... |
Registered Rep. October 1, 2004 Will Leitch |
Bank Shots For the first time in a year-and-a-half, quarter-over-quarter revenue at bank-owned broker/dealers dropped, by 18 percent, according to a Bank Insurance & Securities Association's (BISA) report on the second quarter of 2004. |
Registered Rep. June 1, 2006 |
Blotter Broker Behind Bars... No Millions for Whistle-Blower... NASD Boots Violation Riddled Firm... |
Registered Rep. May 28, 2009 Kristen French |
Former Brookstreet Brokers Hit With Fraud Charges Almost two years after their firm imploded, 16 brokers from Brookstreet Securities may have come to justice. |
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. |
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." |
Knowledge@Wharton September 24, 2003 |
Mutual Fund Scandals: Once Again, Individual Investors Are the Losers Is the mutual fund industry going to become mired in the kind of scandal that has afflicted so many public companies over the past few years? |
Registered Rep. January 1, 2005 |
Blotter John Van, head of Murphy Van Securities, was barred from the industry... The NASD fined 29 firms a total of $9.2 million for late reporting... The NASD's mutual fund task force released its initial report... |
The Motley Fool July 18, 2007 Selena Maranjian |
Check Out Your Broker Finding the perfect broker to whom you would entrust your hard-earned money is difficult. "BrokerCheck," a new online tool from NASD, makes it easier to weed out the unscrupulous ones. |
Registered Rep. May 1, 2004 Will Leitch |
Out, Damn Spots Already, stockbrokers have located a loophole in a NASD instituted a rule meant to prevent stockbrokers from, in effect, buying their way out of client complaints. |
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. |
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... |