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Registered Rep.
September 29, 2008 |
Wachovia, The Bank, Saved by Citi; What Will Happen To Wachovia Securities? Firm Says The AGE Integration To Continue Unaffected Citigroup apparently thinks its got enough financial advisors: Citi declined to buy the retail brokerage business -- Wachovia Securities (and A.G. Edwards) -- and the asset management unit (Evergreen).   |
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. |
U.S. Banker
April 2003
Glen Fest |
Going with the Flow Wachovia CEO Ken Thompson's deal with Prudential has tongues wagging and rivals paying close attention. The newly combined brokerage, nets the bank greater access to trillions of dollars that will pass from one generation to another over the next 10 years. Move over Merrill? |
Registered Rep.
May 31, 2007
Kevin Burke |
Wachovia Buys A.G. Edwards for $6.8 Billion, Creating New Rival to Merrill, Smith Barney The deal puts Wachovia among the top three competitors in retail brokerage -- in terms of both assets and advisors -- and retail banking. |
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.
July 1, 2004 |
Comings & Goings Wachovia Securities names Keith Gregg its new national sales director... Donnie Casey, executive vice president and director of staff at A.G. Edwards, has announced her retirement... 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.
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.
July 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Blotter SEC Tackles Wachovia Insider... Supervisory Meltdown... Market Timing Geeks... |
Investment Advisor
August 2007
Kara P. Stapleton |
News and Products NASD Chairman Mary Schapiro announced July 12 that the new self-regulatory organization... Raymond James advisors Judith McGee, Sheryl Stephens, and Margaret Starner were listed... 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.
June 28, 2007
Christina Mucciolo |
Wachovia Securities to Make New Home in St. Louis Federal Antitrust regulators approved Wachovia Corp.'s acquisition of A.G. Edwards. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter, most likely in October. |
Registered Rep.
July 13, 2007
Susan Konig |
Post Acquisition, A.G. Edwards BOMs Have Tough Job to Do With the Wachovia purchase of A.G. Edwards, it's not just A.G. Edwards reps (some of whom fear that the AGE corporate culture will change) who are worried. So are acquired firm's branch managers. |
The Motley Fool
August 30, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
A Better Way to Check Your Broker? A former SEC guy is aiming to help you steer clear of ne'er-do-wells. Meanwhile, make sure that the brokerage you're using is best for your needs. Odds are, you can find a better brokerage that charges you less or offers more services. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005 |
Blotter Cooked Books... Direct Violation... Busted Market Timers... |
Registered Rep.
February 24, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Wachovia-Pru: What's Next The newly-announced joint venture between Wachovia's retail brokerage and Prudential Securities isn't scheduled to close for another 18 months. But the new company should be able to measure the effectiveness of its broker-retention strategy sooner than that. |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Buying Stocks With Your Home Refinancing your home in order to get capital to invest in the stock market may not be a good idea. |
Registered Rep.
February 18, 2003
David A. Geracioti |
Prudential and Wachovia Deal at Hand Wachovia Corp. and Prudential Financial are set to announce their long-rumored joint venture, a partnership that would combine the two firms' brokerage units and clearing operations to create the third-largest brokerage (by number of reps) in the United States after Merrill and Morgan. |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
Ken Thompson In his nearly four years at the helm of First Union -- now Wachovia Corp. -- G. Kennedy Thompson has rewritten the book on bank mergers. |
Registered Rep.
October 3, 2008
Kristen French |
Wachovia Hooks Up with Wells Fargo; Citi Says Wachovia In Breach Citigroup's deal with Wachovia gets ousted over the new deal with Wells Fargo. Wachovia shareholders and advisors are relieved. |
Registered Rep.
August 28, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
NASD Looks To Approve Broker, Brokerage Firm Use of Investment Analysis The NASD is looking to approve a proposal that would allow brokers and brokerage firms to provide clients with interactive investment analysis tools. |
Registered Rep.
October 26, 2006
Kevin Burke |
NASD Fines B/D for Account Transfer Charges A small independent broker/dealer was slapped with a $50,000 fine and sanctioned for overcharging more than 1,500 customers who decided to follow their brokers to another firm. |
Registered Rep.
September 17, 2008
Geracioti & Touryalai |
Morgan And Wachovia? The need for the kind of capital offered by customer deposits apparently is driving securities firms into the arms of banks. |
Registered Rep.
March 18, 2005
Will Leitch |
Wachovia: On the Recruiting Warpath Wachovia Securities, the third-largest brokerage in the country, has announced an "aggressive" new strategy: the creation of the Individual Investor Group, entirely devoted to the recruitment and retention of individual brokers. |
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. |
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.
June 27, 2005
Kristen French |
Citi/Legg Deal Strikes Blow at the Heart of Financial Supermarket Concept The recently announced asset swap between Citigroup and Legg Mason could be a sign that the financial supermarket of yore is on its way out, to wit: the separation of asset management and distribution. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
July 23, 2007
Ryan Fuhrmann |
Wachovia Is One Big Deal Wachovia snapped up one rival and is still digesting another. Investors, take note. |
Registered Rep.
October 2, 2008 |
Just Say No To Citi? Apparently, not everyone is pleased by the deal in which Citigroup would buy Wachovia Corp.'s bank branches, deposits and private bank -- including a number of high-end Wachovia advisors. |
Registered Rep.
February 21, 2007
John Churchill |
Who's Watching the Watcher? No One, Apparently The NASD fined Raymond James Financial Services $2.75 million today for inadequate sales supervision of its producing branch managers. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005 |
Supplemental Inquiry Q: Is there any way my employer can find out if I receive W-2 income from other sources... Q: Recently at a social event, a co-worker's client told me another local broker (who is a competitor) had made some disparaging remarks about my co-worker... etc. |
Registered Rep.
July 27, 2005
Kristen French |
NASD Sanitizes Arbitration Panel: Public Arbitrators Must Be Public Securities arbitration panels, which resolve the vast majority of investment disputes between clients and brokers, are typically made up of two public arbitrators and one industry arbitrator, a system that is intended to tip the scales in favor of the public. |
Investment Advisor
June 2007
Kara P. Stapleton |
News & Products NASD has fined two Fidelity broker/dealers for preparing and distributing misleading sales literature... The broker/dealers of ING plan to lower fees that their advisors pay on two core advisory programs... etc. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Blotter In the Name of Love: An Ameriprise registered rep was accused of stealing money from clients to pay for travel abroad to look for a Russian bride... NASD Busts Slick Broker... |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2004 |
Comings & Goings Wachovia has a new regional president of its northeast region... Kevin Rowell has joined the hard-coming Schwab Institutional group as executive vice president of sales... etc. |
Registered Rep.
September 14, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
NASD Fines Securities America for Failure to Supervise Securities America was fined $2.5 million for failing to supervise an advisor who allegedly lured clients into early retirement with exaggerated promises of high returns. |
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... |
Investment Advisor
June 2006 |
Group Think The SEC said it will reduce fees on securities transactions and registrations by $1 billion... The NASD issued a warning to investors that cashing out of their 401(k) assets at even a modest level can have a potentially devastating effect... etc. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2005
Will Leitch |
Elder Abuse, Advisor Style The NASD says it will propose "significant" regulatory changes to the way variable annuities are sold, claiming elderly clients are being "scared" into investing in products against their best interests. |
Registered Rep.
May 18, 2009
John Churchill |
As Wells Fargo Takes Over, Integration at Wachovia and A.G. Edwards Still Faces Hurdles Some financial advisors at what is now the largest retail brokerage firm in the U.S. say the integration of the Wachovia and A.G. Edwards is still incomplete, and leaves much to be desired. |
Registered Rep.
March 17, 2003
Will Leitch |
Unfair Disclosure For The Broker? In a little-publicized move, the NASD has formed a Public Information Review Initiative, which would radically expand investors' access to information about brokers. |
Registered Rep.
February 17, 2005
John Churchill |
NASD Charges American Funds with Directed Brokerage Violation Saying it's just as impermissible to make directed brokerage payments as it is to receive them, the NASD charged American Funds---one of the country's most reputable asset managers---with paying kickbacks to brokerages for selling its funds. |
Registered Rep.
April 8, 2003
Will Leitch |
SIA Calls NASD Proposal Unfair The Securities Industry Association has weighed in negatively on the NASD's proposed changes to the handling of central registration depository (CRD) complaints. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2004 |
Comings & Goings David Harris moved to UBS Securities from Smith Barney... UBS Securities lost a broker to upstart wealth manager Mercury Wealth Management... Carol Rogers recently moved to Linsco/Private Ledger from Wachovia Securities' FINet system... etc. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Stay Wachovia's not the first firm to offer multiple affiliation options to its reps -- Raymond James has offered something similar for several years -- but it is the first wirehouse-type brokerage house to do so. Ultimately, the model could serve as a blueprint for the retail advisory business. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
November 7, 2006
Kevin Burke |
NASD Whacks Two Firms with Fines Over Ill-Advised 529 Sales The NASD said on Monday that it has fined Chase Investment Services and MetLife Securities for failing to establish internal controls to supervise the sale of 529 college savings plans. |
