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CFO
July 15, 2009
Vincent Ryan |
Buyer's Remorse Treasury departments are still paying a price for auction-rate securities.   |
Investment Advisor
July 2007
Kathleen M. McBride |
Going Private Hear that? It's the sound of a very big door opening into the elite, large, 144A private securities marketplace. |
Registered Rep.
December 11, 2008 |
SEC Finalizes $30 Billion ARS Settlement With Citi And UBS The $30 billion settlement is the largest in SEC history and restores liquidity to ARS investors at par value of their holdings. |
Registered Rep.
October 8, 2008 |
Bank of America Reaches Second Settlement To Buy Back ARS The agreement closely mirrors the firm's earlier settlement with the Massachusetts Securities Division that was announced in September, 2008. |
The Motley Fool
August 20, 2009
Tim Beyers |
Should Your Broker Pay for Your Losses? When New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on Monday sued Charles Schwab for allegedly misrepresenting the risks inherent with auction-rate securities, he sent a message: Take care to warn investors early and often, or suffer the consequences. Is this a good idea? |
On Wall Street
October 1, 2008
Donna Mitchell |
Auction-Rate Securities Dust Settles, But What About Small Brokerages? Observers expect red faces as regional brokerage customers are left out of the settlements and advisors better prepare for some harsh words. |
The Motley Fool
March 7, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Auction-Rate Anxiety The credit crisis hits leveraged mutual fund shareholders. |
Registered Rep.
November 8, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Auction Rate Revenge For tens of thousands of investors who were trapped in the auction rate securities debacle that started in 2008, finances are getting back to normal. |
Registered Rep.
March 28, 2008
David A. Geracioti |
More Trouble In Auction-Rate Securities Land The State of Massachusetts Secretary of State is investigating the sales practices of auction-rate securities, to learn how these securities are presented to individual clients in the state. |
The Motley Fool
June 19, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Finally, Money for Auction-Rate Securities A new product may finally save investors stuck with frozen auction-rate securities. |
Registered Rep.
June 3, 2009
David Geracioti |
ARS Games -- SEC Blames Firms, Settles with BAC, RBC and DEUTSCHE When the auction rate securities market froze up in February 2008, angry clients blamed their financial advisors. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2006
Lynn Hume |
TBMA Launches Bond Indexes The Bond Market Association published the first of a weekly series of eight indexes covering different kinds of auction-rate securities. The indexes are designed to give issuers and investors benchmarks to evaluate the rates they are getting on securities sold through the auction process. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2008
David Geracioti |
The Auction-Rate Mess And You Many retail investors have recently learned the hard way that auction-rate securities aren't as safe as they thought. |
The Motley Fool
April 8, 2008
Rich Smith |
Psst. Buddy. Wanna Buy a Bond? Auction-rate securities should make investors feel anything but secure. |
Registered Rep.
September 10, 2008 |
Bank of America to Buy Its ARs Back The nation's second-largest bank by assets settled an investigation by Massachusetts regulators, agreeing to buy back $4.5 billion worth of the securities. |
Investment Advisor
July 2006 |
B/d Briefing: News & Products The Securities and Exchange Commission announced on May 31 the institution of proceedings against 15 broker/dealer firms... In the past year nearly 200 advisors have been added to the H&R Block Financial Advisors team... etc. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2011
Donna Mitchell |
Hot Topics FINRA steps in... $80 million settlement of two class-action suits by Securities America... Whistleblower payday... |
Financial Advisor
April 2006
Eric L. Reiner |
Ins And Outs Of Restricted Stock Two varieties of restricted securities are flowering, aiding executives, business owners -- and now investors. Here's what financial advisors need to know about restricted stock units. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2008
Andrew Ackerman |
In First, Mass. Sues UBS In the first state-level lawsuit against an investment firm over auction-rate securities, Massachusetts has filed securities fraud charges against UBS for selling retail investors auction-rate paper as "liquid, safe, money-market" instruments even though the defendants knew it was not. |
The Motley Fool
August 12, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Auction Rate Ugliness Returns Quit blaming others when your portfolio explodes. |
The Motley Fool
August 11, 2008
Rich Duprey |
The Auction-Rate Thaw Turns to a Flood Settlements by big investment banks may finally inundate the frozen market with cash. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2005
Will Leitch |
So They've Got That Going for Them...Which Is Nice For all the problems it's been having in the last several months, Morgan Stanley can hang its hat on this good news: It is now the largest securities firm in the country. |
Wall Street & Technology
January 20, 2008
Cory Levine |
Fixed-Income Products Fail to Go Fully Electronic New research reveals that not all types of fixed income securities are experiencing rapid electronification. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2008 |
Correction The correction of a quote regarding information gathered from brokerage clients invested in auction-rate securities. |
Registered Rep.
September 17, 2008
John Churchill |
Morgan Stanley Earnings Up, Stock Down; Wealth Management Unit Raking In Assets And Advisors Morgan Stanley, perhaps in an effort to quell investor fears that it was on similarly shaky ground as Lehman Brothers, pre-announced its third-quarter earnings yesterday, surprising analysts with census beating results. |
Registered Rep.
August 7, 2008
John Churchill |
Citi Settles With SEC and Cuomo Over ARS Failure The firm has agreed to buy back auction rate securities sold to institutional and retail investors nationwide who've been stuck with the illiquid investment vehicles since February 12, 2008. |
Registered Rep.
July 31, 2008
John Churchill |
Massachusetts Says Merrill Defrauded ARS Clients Among the many claims against Merrill Lynch is that management censored otherwise gloomy fixed income research in order to move volatile inventory out of company inventory and into client portfolios. |
Registered Rep.
September 3, 2008
John Churchill |
Brokers Charged In Fraudulently Selling $1bn Of ARS To Retail Clients In the first case of its kind, the SEC announced today that it has charged two individual financial advisors with fraud related to the sale of more than $1 billion in auction-rate securities. |
Financial Advisor
October 2006 |
Advisor Emporium Auto-Execution Trading Operation Set... Company Formed To Value Illiquid Assets... New Fund Targets Inflation's Effects... High-Earner Disability Insurance Offered... etc. |
The Motley Fool
April 18, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Auction Rate Agony Investors get frozen out of their money as auction rate securities shrivel. |
Financial Advisor
September 2009
Gail Liberman |
How Liquid Are Client Mutual Funds? In a falling market, a fund's securities that appear to be liquid suddenly may have no market. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2004 |
Cutting the Pace of Cost-Cutting New numbers from the Securities Industry Association suggest that cost-reduction efforts are easing. |
Registered Rep.
June 9, 2008 |
Credit Downgrades, More Write-Downs And The ARS Market Credit downgrades to MBIA and AMBAC Financial Group, the world's largest bond insurers, will lead to more write-downs at Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and UBS, according to a new research report. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
May 28, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Goldman Sachs Takes the High Ground The investment bank threatens to leave an international group over a proposed rule change for accounting. |
Wall Street & Technology
June 21, 2004 |
The Trust Factor We're at a point where we trust the technology and we trust the operations, but we don't trust the human beings and the corporations in the securities industry. |
On Wall Street
January 1, 2011
Alan J. Foxman |
Keeping Current Investment advisors write in for some advice concerning state and federal regulations. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2006
Kristen French |
Help Wanted Securities Industry employment topped the 800,000 mark in November for the first time since February 2002. |
Wall Street & Technology
July 1, 2005
Maria Santos |
Fast Facts According to the Securities Industry Association's 2004 Investor Survey, nine out of 10 investors are "very" or "somewhat" satisfied with the service provided by their investment professional. |
The Motley Fool
September 18, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Breaking the Bank for a Buck We might just be on the verge of seeing another disaster in the making as Reserve Primary, the $65 billion money market fund that invented the investment vehicle, finally "broke the buck" because of losses incurred on debt issued by Lehman Brothers. |
The Motley Fool
December 26, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
The SEC's Gift to You: Part 2 By giving the investing public access to information, and serving as a regulator with the power to take action to correct problems, the SEC works hard to protect investors. |
Finance & Development
September 2009
Randall Dodd |
Overhauling the System The United States is proposing the most radical reform of financial regulation since the New Deal. |
Entrepreneur
November 2007
Rosalind Resnick |
Getting a Margin Loan Securing a margin loan can mean quick cash for startup, but it doesn't come without risk. |
Registered Rep.
May 8, 2008 |
UBS Needs A Lift Ticket UBS is facing serious scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice to determine whether or not the bank aided clients in committing tax evasion from 2000 to 2007. |
On Wall Street
January 1, 2010
Alan J. Foxman |
Blamed for ARS He Didn't Sell Misrepresenting auction-rate securities... BrokerCheck public disclosure system... |
Investment Advisor
September 2007
Palash R. Ghosh |
Diamonds Among The Junk High-yield bonds -- those fixed income securities rated below investment grade -- have some advantages over more vanilla-type bond products. |
Investment Advisor
August 2007
Kathleen M. McBride |
Subprime As the implosion of subprime mortgages and junk bonds causes uncertainty throughout the markets, advisors and broker/dealer executives may want to think about what's in their clients' portfolios. |
The Motley Fool
October 16, 2008
Zoe Van Schyndel |
The Risky Business of Securities Lending Is your mutual fund betting with your money? |
Registered Rep.
December 10, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Securities Revenues Fall in Third Quarter Securities firms showed profits of $3.0 billion in the third quarter of 2003, a 45 percent decline from the second quarter, according to the Securities Industry Association. A significant drop in trading revenue was responsible for the profit hit. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2008
Andrew Ackerman |
DOE Supports Loans The U.S. Department of Education plans to provide liquidity support to the student loan market. |
