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Investment Advisor
February 2010
Marlene Y. Satter |
Broker/Dealer Briefing: New Leader for FSI A short conversation with Mari Buechner, CCO and CEO of Coordinated Capital Securities, and the new chair of the Financial Services Institute.   |
Investment Advisor
June 2010
Melanie Waddell |
FINRA's Ketchum Sees a Fiduciary Future for B/Ds Inappropriate sales of VAs to seniors at top of FINRA regulatory radar. |
Investment Advisor
August 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Danger & Opportunity: Consumers Take Center Stage of Reform Debate Financial services reform continues to unfold, with two pieces of legislation being sent to Capitol Hill in July aimed at protecting investors. |
Investment Advisor
March 2007
Melanie Waddell |
States' Rights The North American Securities Administrators Association's agenda includes preserving state regulators' authority. |
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. |
Investment Advisor
October 2007
Melanie Waddell |
Helping the Most Vulnerable Retirees Lawmakers, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and state regulators are bent on making sure advisors with designations touting expertise when it comes to helping seniors, the most vulnerable retirees, are closely scrutinized. |
Investment Advisor
May 2008
Melanie Waddell |
Donohue on the Rand Report & Paulson SEC exec doesn't foresee a single regulator for advisors and broker/dealers. |
Investment Advisor
March 2007 |
March 2007 NASAA reported that between 2004 and 2005, 26% of the 3,635 state enforcement actions dealt with the financial exploitation of seniors... Financial Services Institute Chairman John Simmers announced FSI will issue a white paper... etc. |
Investment Advisor
September 2008
Melanie Waddell |
Turf Wars A conversation with former SEC Commissioner Roel Campos about the Treasury's Blueprint for financial services reform. |
Investment Advisor
March 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Reform Is on the Way SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro is laying the groundwork for a significantly beefed up enforcement division at the Commission. |
Investment Advisor
March 2009
James J. Green |
The FSI's Priorities Now While the members of the Financial Services Institute compete fiercely with each other in many areas -- within FSI they have subsumed their differences in favor of promoting the common agenda of broker/dealers. |
Investment Advisor
February 2007
Melanie Waddell |
Watch Out Broker/dealers and RIAs alike should ready themselves for a number of initiatives being worked on by their regulators in the New Year. |
Investment Advisor
July 2010
Melanie Waddell |
A Whirlwind of SEC Activity Harmonization of advisor and B/D rules will move forward. |
Investment Advisor
January 2006
Melanie Waddell |
The Playing Field: SEC Inspectors Unit Under Fire After repeated complaints from broker/dealers, mutual funds, and investment advisors about the SEC's new sweeps examination process, Congress is threatening to abolish the SEC's Office of Inspections and Examinations (OCIE). |
Investment Advisor
July 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Danger & Opportunity: Bracing for Change It looks to be all but inevitable that the rules for broker/dealers and investment advisors will be harmonized, and that broker/dealers offering investment advice will have to adhere to a fiduciary standard of care. |
Investment Advisor
August 2010
Melanie Waddell |
Will the States Be Able to Regulate Big RIAs? State regulators and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will meet soon to iron out the details of shifting nearly 4,000 advisors from federal to state supervision. |
Investment Advisor
February 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Is Mary What the SEC Needs? The alternative to FINRA overseeing advisors, and what advisors would definitely prefer, is a self-regulatory organization. |
Investment Advisor
May 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Danger & Opportunity: The SEC Reformation An exclusive interview with SEC chief Mary Schapiro regarding financial services reforms. |
Registered Rep.
March 27, 2006
Kristen French |
SEC Targets Investment Traps Set For Seniors The move against the "free lunch," as they are generally called, is part of a larger initiative launched to protect senior citizens from investment scams and unsuitable recommendations. |
Investment Advisor
June 2007
Kathleen M. McBride |
Interesting Times Independent broker/dealers find opportunity in the face of changing winds. |
Registered Rep.
December 30, 2009
Christina Mucciolo |
Independent Contractor Status On Senate's Agenda in 2010 The Financial Services Institute plans on lobbying against recently re-introduced legislation in the Senate that threatens financial advisors' "independent contractor" worker classification. |
Investment Advisor
March 2008
James J. Green |
Coming Out Party Only fours years after its inception, the Financial Services Institute has achieved a high level of success as the primary advocacy group for independent broker/dealers. The recent FSI gathering was the broker/dealer group's biggest ever. |
Investment Advisor
June 2009
Russ Diachok |
Coming to an RIA Near You One of the scenarios arising from the financial crisis and frauds like the one perpetrated by Bernie Madoff will be greater regulation of broker/dealers. |
Investment Advisor
June 2006
Melanie Waddell |
Retirement Planning: News & Products Baby boomers and seniors -- don't confuse the two... SEC Chairman Christopher Cox is on his own crusade to fight senior fraud... John Hancock introduced a new survivorship universal life insurance policy... etc. |
Financial Advisor
October 2008
Tracey Longo |
Unwanted Scrutiny One of the quickest ways to get regulators' attention these days is to single out retirees and seniors in your advisory firm's marketing initiatives. |
Investment Advisor
January 2007
Melanie Waddell |
Getting Compliance Help Now If you're one of those financial advisory firms that's still dithering on the sidelines hoping that your compliance program is up to snuff, it's time to get serious. A good place to turn for help is the Regulatory Compliance Association's new CCO University. |
Investment Advisor
May 2008
McBride & Waddell |
Seismic Shift The Treasury Secretary floats a regulatory plan that -- if implemented -- will change the financial services world as we know it. |
Investment Advisor
March 2010
James J. Green |
Broker/Dealer Briefing: Independent Broker/Dealers Celebrate Earned Credibility The Financial Services Institute lays out its agenda, starting with preservation of independent contractor status. |
Registered Rep.
June 19, 2012
Diana Britton |
Whose Suitability Standards? In early 2011, the SEC completed a study, mandated under Dodd-Frank reform legislation, which recommended extending to brokers who advise retail clients the same fiduciary standard that now applies to investment advisors. |
Investment Advisor
October 2010
Melanie Waddell |
Obama Calls for End to Some Bush-Era Tax Cuts; Fiduciary Lobbying Continues Some experts see a tax deal in early 2011 |
Financial Planning
October 2, 2007
Jeff Auld |
Save 12b-1 Fees Independent reps and smaller clients will suffer if the SEC decides to cut this form of compensation. |
Investment Advisor
May 2010
David Tittsworth |
What a Reinvigorated SEC Will Mean for You The first in a series of occasional commentaries by the executive director of the Investment Adviser Association. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2007
Alan Lavine |
Fish or Fowl? Are equity-indexed annuities securities or insurance? The NASD offered only loose recommendations to member firms about how sales of this product should be conducted and supervised, but most broker/dealers are implementing them anyway. |
Investment Advisor
June 2008
Melanie Waddell |
A Long, Hot Regulatory Summer Rules from the SEC on credit ratings agencies, 12b-1, soft dollars, and hedge funds |
Investment Advisor
August 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Congress Presses Schapiro to Protect Investors While members of Congress praised SEC Chairman Schapiro for acting quickly to institute changes at the agency, lawmakers said more work needs to be done to protect investors. |
Investment Advisor
March 2009
James J. Green |
Broker/Dealer Briefing: A Shot Over the Bow FINRA is quietly conducting a sweep of broker/dealers that could be the first steps to having the SRO take over regulation of registered investment advisors from the SEC -- something the former NASD has long desired. |
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. |
Investment Advisor
September 2008
Eric Schwartz |
B/D or RIA? The Case for the Flexible B/D How independent broker/dealers and advisors can thrive by leveraging the trends of the future. |
Investment Advisor
January 1, 2011
Melanie Waddell |
FINRA Jockeys for SRO Spot as SEC Report to Congress Nears The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is engaged in a full-court press to convince the SEC that it should be the SRO for advisors. |
Investment Advisor
March 2010
James J. Green |
B/D News Bulletins and news of interest to broker/dealers from FINRA and the SEC. |
Investment Advisor
June 2009
Melanie Waddell |
SEC's Walters Backs Harmonizing B/D, Advisor Rules Yet another top official at the SEC is championing the idea of harmonizing rules for investment advisors and broker/dealers. |
Investment Advisor
March 2007
James J. Green |
Silver Lining Despite the silver lining benefits, the financial advisor community can't just react to regulators and legislators. It must be proactive. |
Investment Advisor
March 2006
Melanie Waddell |
Piling On Keeping up with compliance chores will continue to occupy a substantial portion of advisors' time, as industry officials and observers are steadfast in their belief that regulatory scrutiny by the SEC and NASD isn't going away. |
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
February 2008
Melanie Waddell |
A Busy Year in Washington Now that the Rand report assessing the advisory and broker/dealer industries has been released, No doubt advisors and brokers will be anticipating any possible regulatory actions that the SEC may take. |
Investment Advisor
January 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Watch Out. Reform In on the Way As the New Year unfolds, one thing is certain: financial services regulatory reform will be hotly debated in the 111th Congress, and perhaps some reforms will actually be put into place. |
Investment Advisor
March 2007
Kathleen M. McBride |
An Independent Voice The Financial Services Institute kicked off its annual conference at Disney World with the group's new chair, John Simmers, CEO of ING Advisors Network, introducing an ambitious agenda for 2007. |
Registered Rep.
September 8, 2011
French & Britton |
House Proposes Bill That Would Give SROs Oversight of Investment Advisers The bill was trotted out by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bacchus in advance of a Sept. 13 hearing to review provisions of Dodd-Frank that govern the regulation of broker/dealers and investment advisers. |
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. |
Investment Advisor
April 2006
Elizabeth Festa |
A Less Scary SEC? SEC Commissioner Atkins promises more restraint in dealing with financial advisors. |
