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September 1, 2006
Lynn Hume |
Bond Buyer The U.S. House of Representatives easily passed legislation designed to foster competition, transparency and accountability in the credit rating industry.   |
CFO
June 1, 2010
Randy Myers |
Ratings Disaster Congress takes another stab at reforming the credit-rating agencies, whose AAA seal of approval helped fuel the subprime crisis. But will any change truly make a difference? |
BusinessWeek
November 29, 2004
Amy Borrus |
Rating Agencies Get A Credit Check The SEC and European regulators are debating new rules for the U.S.-led credit rating industry. The commission probably will ask Congress for authority to require rating agencies to open their books and records to the SEC. |
BusinessWeek
October 7, 2009
Levisohn & Scott |
The Side Effects of Financial Reform Proposed rules aimed at curbing Wall Street abuses may crimp corporate earnings and returns for investors, too. |
U.S. Banker
July 2008
Michael Sisk |
A `Radical' Answer to Credit-Ratings Conflict The government should remove itself completely from the credit-rating business, stop deciding which company can and can't rate a bond, and stop making institutions pay attention to rating agencies whose work may be shoddy - and, it often turns out, is. |
BusinessWeek
April 1, 2010
Martin Z. Braun |
Can the SEC Get Its Street Cred Back? Elaine Greenberg is investigating abuses in the muni bond market, as the commission tries to rebuild trust. |
On Wall Street
May 1, 2010
Alan J. Foxman |
Do You Always Have A Right To An Attorney In Arbitration? Q&A: Rights to attorneys in arbitration... Is giving the client a bond's rating enough when it comes to disclosing risks?... |
CFO
September 1, 2008
Alix Stuart |
Over Rated? The subprime fiasco has put corporate credit-ratings on thin ice. |
Financial Advisor
September 2012
Maureen Nevin Duffy |
2012: Seeking Yield More investors are piling into muni bonds, but certain cities face intractable economic difficulties. |
Investment Advisor
July 2010
Melanie Waddell |
A Whirlwind of SEC Activity Harmonization of advisor and B/D rules will move forward. |
CFO
January 1, 2003 |
Credit Watch S&P's Leo O'Neill to SEC: We are not the watchdogs. |
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. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2005
James A. Barnash |
Why We're Suing The FPA president explains the lawsuit over the SEC's broker-dealer rule that exempted certain broker-dealers from disclosure standards that apply to investment advisers and most financial planners. |
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 Planning
July 1, 2006
Marshall Eckblad |
Chalk One Up for RIAs According to a recent survey, a majority of investors believe stockbrokers and investment advisers owe the same fiduciary responsibilities to their clients. |
The Motley Fool
November 24, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
Get What You Want From Your Broker Rather than imposing a one-rule-fits-all approach to fiduciary duty, what the SEC should do is give customers the ultimate choice when it comes to deciding what relationship they want with their brokers. |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
The Ratings Game The companies that rate bonds look at several factors in rating fixed-income securities. Learn how these ratings work, and don't buy without knowing the facts. |
The Motley Fool
September 19, 2007
Zoe Van Schyndel |
Muni Madness The first municipal bond ETFs are on the market. With low expense ratios, and tax-exempt interest, they represent an interesting way to invest in muni bonds. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2006
Lynn Hume |
Campos Mulls Law for Raters The SEC Commission member says it may be time to seek legislation that would give the SEC authority to regulate the nation's credit rating agencies. |
Registered Rep.
May 28, 2010
Jake Zamansky |
Wall Street Will (Again) Kill The Passage of a Fiduciary Standard While the House financial reform bill includes a fiduciary standard for brokers in limited circumstances, I'm fairly certain history will repeat itself and the provision will mysteriously and entirely disappear when the House and Senate reconcile their respective bills. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 31, 2009
Martha Lagace |
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies Competition in credit ratings forces raters to favor issuers. This is contrary to the interest of those who rely on ratings to make investment decisions or to regulate. |
BusinessWeek
April 7, 2011
Karen Weise |
Banks 'Too Big to Fail' Could Get Bigger Federal agencies putting mortgage and derivative reforms into force are writing rules that seem to have a big-bank bias. |
Investment Advisor
June 1, 2011
Melanie Waddell |
Schapiro Says SEC to Focus in July on Fiduciary, 12b-1 The Commission will look at fund regulation "in tandem" with RIA/BD reform. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2009
Robert Pozen |
Think Twice Congress is seriously debating legislation that would significantly expand the coverage of the Investment Advisers Act, empower the SEC to make rules on advisor compensation and increase the likelihood of lawsuits against advisors. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
September 7, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Wall Street Under the Magnifying Glass Credit-rating agencies prepare to be probed by the attorney generals of New York and Ohio, as well as the SEC, as to how they managed to package pools of low-quality loans into groups and pass off portions of it as being A-list. |
Registered Rep.
March 15, 2010
Kristen French |
Dodd Bill Requires Year-Long Study of Fiduciary Issue, SRO Idea, Gives SEC Muscle Banking reform legislation introduced Monday would give the SEC greater enforcement muscle over RIAs, and would require it to conduct a study examining the effectiveness of extending the fiduciary standard to brokers. |
BusinessWeek
September 23, 2010
Levitt & Turner |
How to Clean Up the Muni Bond Market Solutions to defaulting bonds, unfunded liabilities, and fraudulent investment information. |
BusinessWeek
August 6, 2007
Roben Farzad |
Let The Blame Begin Everyone played some role in the subprime mess - the Street, lenders, ratings agencies, hedge funds, even homeowners. Where does responsibility lie? |
Investment Advisor
November 2007
Melanie Waddell |
On the Agenda: Insurance and Ratings Congress looks at insurance reform and the subprime mess. |
BusinessWeek
October 1, 2007
David Henry |
Anatomy Of A Ratings Downgrade How S&P and Moody's miscalculated risk on two top-rated pools of mortgage-backed bonds. |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2010
Donald Jay Korn |
Individual Issues With savvy strategies and new research, planners can use individual municipal bonds to provide low-risk, predictable cash flow to clients. |
BusinessWeek
December 17, 2009
Theo Francis |
Washington Swings at Reform In subtle but significant ways, policymakers will change the way Wall Street does business. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
March 11, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Extreme Makeover: SEC With or without an increased budget, the SEC wants to make up for its shortcomings. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2011
Bob Veres |
Gold Into Straw In mid-January, the SEC released its "Study on Investment Advisers and Broker-Dealers" to Congress. Analyzing the study provides an insightful look into how the SEC views the "harmonization" of two different regulatory structures. |
The Motley Fool
May 21, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Put the Rating Agencies Out of Their Misery Before It's Too Late Once again, raters have proven themselves stuck on stupid. Congress is waking up. Two amendments in the just-passed Senate financial overhaul bill could euthanize the flawed parts of the rating system. |
Investment Advisor
April 2009
Melanie Waddell |
All About Enforcement It's seems a daily occurrence now that the Securities and Exchange Commission levies an enforcement action against a financial services firm |
BusinessWeek
April 11, 2005
Toddi Gutner |
Broker Or Adviser? Be forewarned: If yours is employed by a brokerage, your interests come second |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2009
Robert Brokamp |
Let's Fix the Rules of Enforcement Is the SEC up to the task? |
Investment Advisor
March 1, 2011
Kathleen Mcbride |
SEC and the Fiduciary Study: The Process Why the fiduciary standard became such a hot topic for regulators |
U.S. Banker
April 2010
Steve Garmhausen |
A New Standard for Bank Brokers? A bill mandating that brokerages adhere to a fiduciary standard would mean more disclosures, more work for bank compliance departments and more training. |
The Motley Fool
September 24, 2007
Saibal Saha |
You Churn, They Earn Effective Oct. 1, a new SEC rule says that a broker-dealer can no longer charge fees for investment advice unless it agrees to act as a registered investment advisor with fiduciary responsibility for its clients. |
Registered Rep.
June 25, 2010
Kristen French |
The Final Wall Street Reform Bill And You After a herculean 20-hours straight of negotiations, Congressional committee members agreed Friday morning to a Wall Street reform package that will be much tougher on the country's banks. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
October 26, 2009 |
Ask the U.S. Treasury: A Call for Fools' Questions Financial reform remains center-stage. |
Investment Advisor
May 2010
Melanie Waddell |
30 for 30 Interviews: Mary Schapiro SEC chairman Mary Schapiro talks about harmonizing rules for broker/dealers and advisors. |
Financial Advisor
June 2008
Bruce W. Fraser |
No Longer A Wallflower For your clients' fixed-income portfolios, now may be a desirable time to be thinking of investing in simple, plain vanilla investments. |
Financial Advisor
May 2006
Andrew Gluck |
New Rule Causes Software Schizophrenia New financial software programs for advisors reflect the difference between fiduciary and suitability requirements. |
The Motley Fool
February 8, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Rating Agencies Begin to Come Clean If any group deserves the most blame for shady practices that gave credence to subprime debt, it might be the rating agencies. |
