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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.
Financial Planning December 1, 2011 Bob Veres	Regulatory Armaggedon The Republican leadership in Congress has proposed that the SEC authorize one or more self-regulatory organizations to take over regulation of RIAs. This has been coordinated with massive Wall Street lobbying.
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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.
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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.
Investment Advisor March 2010 James J. Green	B/D News Bulletins and news of interest to broker/dealers from FINRA and the SEC.
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Financial Advisor October 2010 Andrew Gluck	Pulling The Switch Are state regulators ready to assume oversight of some 4,200 RIAs?
Registered Rep. July 25, 2011 Lena S. Rizkallah	Are the New Dodd-Frank Regulations Good for the Insurance Business? While the Dodd-Frank Act will impose additional restrictions on previously unregulated areas in the financial industry, it may also set additional limitations in place on the insurance industry, which some advisors view as unnecessary and others beneficial.
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.
Financial Planning June 1, 2007 Bob Veres	Victory, for Now Brokerage firms have little choice but to adapt to a world in which their traditional service -- clearing trades and executing transactions -- has become "solely incidental" to the increasingly valuable business of providing advice.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2008 John Churchill	Fix Advisor Laws! Laws should reflect the fact that the differences between registered reps and registered investment advisors have largely evaporated.
Financial Advisor June 2012 Jim McConville	Advisor Groups Renew Challenge To Finra's SRO Cost Estimates A coalition of financial advisor industry groups last month resumed its assault on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's cost estimates for creating a self-regulatory organization to review investment advisors.
Financial Advisor November 2004 Evan Simonoff	Editor's Note Big government gets bigger, especially for the financial advisor. Unfortunately, many regulators barely understand the difference between stockbrokers, financial planners and investment advisors.
Registered Rep. June 29, 2010 Halah Touryalai	The New Sheriffs In Town The SEC examines about 9 percent of the 11,000 or so advisory firms under its jurisdiction annually. All of that is about to change with a little help from regulators at the state level.
Registered Rep. June 17, 2009 Christina Mucciolo	The Fiduciary Battle Continues, Now Under Federal Microscope Among other measures, the Obama administration proposed today that the Securities and Exchange Commission require that broker-dealers offering investment advice be held to the fiduciary standard rather than the suitability standard.
Investment Advisor December 21, 2010 James J. Green	FSI Endorses FINRA as SRO for Investment Advisors Dale Brown says FINRA option is "best way to address the regulatory gap."
Financial Planning May 1, 2011 Bob Veres	To the World of 2020 I'm writing this column to help you address the issue on the minds of investors and consumers everywhere in your future day and age: How can we finally fix the regulatory system after the latest traumatic events shook the markets to their core?
Financial Advisor March 2011 Andrew Gluck	Members Only Good intentions and strict rules may have backfired for the Financial Planning Association at a time of change.
Financial Advisor June 2011 Bruce W. Fraser	Rebuilding Trust - Part 2 Six leaders in the wealth management continue their discussion of the advisory industry and how new rules and regulations will impact it.
Investment Advisor September 2008 James J. Green	You're the Tops In a comprehensive face-to-face discussion, the leaders of the Broker/Dealers of the Year explain their firms' unique charisma and how they plan to remain at the summit of their professions.
Investment Advisor April 1, 2011 Ron Rhoades	An Alternative to FINRA Oversight "I expect FINRA and its allies to continue to push to extend its jurisdiction to some or all investment advisors," says Investment Adviser Association Executive Director David Tittsworth.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2007	Turf Wars Over Advice The age-old debate between the b/d and investment advisor (RIA) industries over who should be able to provide advice and when, and whose regulatory regime offers better investor protections, is far from over.
Financial Planning September 1, 2012 Bob Veres	Why Doesn't the RIA Community Come Up With Better Proposals? Instead of fighting against bad proposals, shouldn't the RIA community be proposing better alternatives? We assume that the goal of the Dodd-Frank Act is to tighten up lax RIA regulation.
Financial Advisor November 2011 Evan Simonoff	What Gives At The SEC? For several decades, the Securities and Exchange Commission has contended that it does not have sufficient resources to examine and inspect RIAs. Consequently, many have concluded that Finra is the default option for all RIA regulation.
Investment Advisor September 2010 Thomas D. Giachetti	The Compliance Coach: Will the SEC Ever Learn? Don't Count On It Get ready for new custody and ADV rules, and the $100 million threshold.
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Investment Advisor February 2009 Melanie Waddell	Teaming Up for Change The National Association of Personal Financial Advisors, the Financial Planning Association, and the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards -- which have joined forces to lobby Congress on financial services reform -- christen themselves the Financial Planning Coalition.
Registered Rep. November 16, 2012 Jerry Gleeson	Tardy Advisors Get a Reprieve Mid-sized RIAs who are behind on switching their registration from federal to state jurisdictions now have until Dec. 17 to get caught up.
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Registered Rep. September 13, 2011 Kristen French	Long Legislative Fight Kicks Off with House Hearing On SRO, Fiduciary Standard Congressman Scott Garrett opened Tuesday's House Financial Services Committee hearing on an SRO for investment advisers and a fiduciary standard for broker/dealers with a threat.
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Investment Advisor September 2009 Bob Clark	Clark at Large: These Guys Are Good Did you ever get the haunting feeling that something was going too well? That's how I'm starting to feel about the reregulation of the advisory world, which is part of the Obama Administration's overhaul of the financial services industry.
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Investment Advisor May 2008 Mark Johannessen	Embracing Change on Our Own Terms Given the recent announcement by the Treasury Department of an ambitious reform package for the financial services industry, financial planners have no choice but to prepare for change.