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Registered Rep.
April 27, 2010
Kristen French |
Goldman Case Boosts Odds For Fiduciary Standard In Senate Bill The Senate hearing with Goldman Sachs may increase the likelihood that a fiduciary standard for brokers will make it into Senator Christopher Dodd's financial regulatory reform legislation.   |
Registered Rep.
May 6, 2010
Kristen French |
Washington Goes Crazy For Fiduciary Standard A number of senators are scrambling to get on the fiduciary bandwagon following last weeks' Goldman Sachs hearings. |
The Motley Fool
June 8, 2010
Ilan Moscovitz |
The End Game for Wall Street Finally, an end to government support for the risky derivatives called swaps. |
Investment Advisor
June 2010
Melanie Waddell |
Next Steps for Congressional Action Reconciliation of reform bills looms. Will Schapiro get fiduciary authority she wants? |
Investment Advisor
November 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Danger & Opportunity: Healthcare, Financial Services Reform Making Headway Two of the Obama Administration's top priorities to accomplish by year-end -- healthcare and financial services reform -- are well on their way to fruition. |
Investment Advisor
April 1, 2011 |
SEC and the Fiduciary Study: Politics and the Fiduciary Standard AdvisorOne Wealth Editor Kate McBride explains the political process under which Dodd Frank was passed, up to the SEC's reports on an SRO and fiduciary standard |
BusinessWeek
April 22, 2010
Alan Katz |
The City That Got Swapped A decade ago, the mayor of Saint-Etienne, France, hit on a novel way to help pay for urban renewal: currency and interest rate swaps. He was a hero for a while. Then came the crash. Now he's the ex-mayor of a town facing financial disaster. |
BusinessWeek
May 26, 2011
Selway & Braun |
Bachus Is Wall Street's Man in Jefferson County Representative Bachus backs a GOP push to delay reforms on the same derivatives that drove his county to the brink of bankruptcy. |
Investment Advisor
May 2010
Bob Clark |
Clark at Large: Hope and Change Hope is waning for a fiduciary standard for brokers. But the battle's not over yet. |
Registered Rep.
May 13, 2010
Kristen French |
Widening Probe of Wall Street Firms Further Raises Profile of Fiduciary Issue With news Thursday that a preliminary criminal investigation has been launched into some of Wall Street's biggest firms concerning potentially misleading sales of CDOs to clients, the fiduciary train is set to gain additional momentum in Washington. |
CFO
October 1, 2009
Randy Myers |
Boxed In The government's push to standardize over-the-counter derivatives could severely disrupt corporate hedging programs. |
BusinessWeek
April 22, 2010
Jonathan Weil |
Goldman Slapped A civil suit and a Senate scolding won't be enough to make Wall Street's wealthiest firm fly right. |
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. |
CFO
October 1, 2006
Alix Nyberg Stuart |
Are Your Secrets Safe? A shift in banks' business model raises questions about conflicts. |
Registered Rep.
February 17, 2010
Kristen French |
Uniform Fiduciary Standard Still A Question Mark The fiduciary issue is not one of the major sticking points in wrangling over legislation; the big issues are banking regulations, systemic risk, credit rating agency reform, derivatives, executive compensation, and the Consumer Protection Agency. |
Investment Advisor
February 2010
Melanie Waddell |
Washington Watch: Fiduciary Wrangling Resumes Groups urge Dodd and Shelby to maintain strong fiduciary language in reform bill. |
Registered Rep.
May 20, 2010
Kristen French |
Senate Nears Vote On Financial Reform, Fiduciary Standard On Hold The Senate voted 60-40 Thursday to end weeks of debate on Christopher Dodd's financial regulatory reform legislation, in what is called a cloture vote. That clears the way for a final vote on the bill within 30 hours. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
May 27, 2010
Matthew Leising |
How Wall Street Gamed Derivatives Reform New legislation likely won't have a major effect on banks that own stakes in trading and clearing firms. |
BusinessWeek
July 1, 2010
Harper & Keoun |
The Financial Reform Law: A 'Fig Leaf' It won't prevent bad bets by banks, and hence won't prevent the next financial crisis, say the experts. |
Investment Advisor
May 2010
Melanie Waddell |
Schapiro Speaks on Fiduciary, 12b-1s In an exclusive interview, the SEC Chairman speaks her mind. |
The Motley Fool
June 15, 2010
Alex Dumortier |
Banks: Wave These Profits Goodbye Senate Agriculture Chairman Blanche Lincoln's plan to force banks that receive government support to spin out their profitable swaps trading desks is now likely to pass. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2009
Harold Evensky |
Clients First It is imperative that an honest, universal fiduciary standard incorporate basic principles designed to protect clients -- not brokers, advisors, or their employers. |
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. |
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. |
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
May 2012
Donald B. Trone |
Discernment And Right Versus Wrong Reforming the flawed corporate ethos of Goldman Sachs or implementing a fiduciary standard, codes and regulations won't be enough to provide the best outcome. |
BusinessWeek
April 29, 2010
Barrett & Schmidt |
In Goldman's Defiance, a Hint of Truce Goldman Sachs and the SEC have equally high stakes. |
Investment Advisor
August 2010
Bob Clark |
Can't Beat 'Em? Then Stall 'Em Despite the reform bill's ambiguity, a fiduciary standard for all seems likely. |
Investment Advisor
December 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Danger & Opportunity: Staggering Toward Reform Investor Protection Act passes with lots of fiduciary-related amendments; action on Dodd not likely until 2010. |
Registered Rep.
March 5, 2010
Kristen French |
Washington Not Swayed By Mainstream Media On Fiduciary Standard. What About Clients? Will all the media attention influence brokerage clients? Many have already been migrating to investment advisers who act as fiduciaries on the RIA side of the business. |
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 |
BusinessWeek
April 1, 2010
Roben Farzad |
Goldman Sachs: Don't Blame Us When it comes to its role in the financial crisis, Goldman Sachs has a message for the world: Not guilty. Not one bit. |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2010
Moscovitz & Koppenheffer |
Wall Street Reform: The Good, the Meh, and the Ugly A Foolish take on what's in the Senate bill. |
BusinessWeek
November 11, 2010
Michael McDonald |
A Wall Street Gimmick That Soaks Taxpayers Sold as a way for governments and nonprofits to lower costs on bonds, swaps contracts ended up hiking costs when interest rates plunged. |
Investment Advisor
October 2010
Bob Clark |
The Empire Steps Up The Financial Planning Coalition's letter on the Securities and Exchange Commission's "Study Regarding Obligations of Brokers, Dealers and Investment Advisers" will knock your socks off. |
Investment Advisor
April 2010
Melanie Waddell |
Washington Watch: The Shape of Reform Begins to Sharpen Dodd's bill calls for SEC study, not a fiduciary standard; advisors await final markup. |
BusinessWeek
August 26, 2010
James Sterngold |
Let a Thousand Regulators Bloom As agencies begin rewiring Wall Street, job openings abound. |
On Wall Street
May 1, 2010
Conrad & Menchaca |
Goldman Sachs Feels The Heat, Making It Tough For Advisors The Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuit against Goldman Sachs may well be the catalyst for setting a universal fiduciary standard for the financial advisory industry. |
CFO
September 1, 2003
Hilary Rosenberg |
Compromising Positions Will credit derivatives encourage more lending, or will they harm the interests of borrowers? |
Investment Advisor
May 1, 2011
Bob Clark |
The Polar Bears Thawing out our modern black and white thinking could save the fiduciary standard. I don't usually write about politics, except when it has a direct impact on financial advice, and this appears to be one of those times. |
Investment Advisor
July 2010
Melanie Waddell |
A Whirlwind of SEC Activity Harmonization of advisor and B/D rules will move forward. |
Bank Systems & Technology
April 16, 2010
Penny Crosman |
SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Fraud in Structuring, Marketing of CDOs "The product was new and complex but the deception and conflicts are old and simple," said Robert Khuzami, director of the division of enforcement. |
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 Advisor
October 2009
Kristina Fausti |
A Higher Standard It appears that the SEC will remain the primary federal regulator of investment advisors, at least for now. |
Registered Rep.
July 15, 2011
Kristen French |
SIFMA Wants Fiduciary Standard Governed By Client Contracts Broker/dealer trade group SIFMA fired off the latest round in the ongoing tangle over the fiduciary standard Thursday. The group sent a letter to the SEC that recommends creating for broker/dealers a modified version of the fiduciary standard that currently governs investment advisers. |
Financial Advisor
February 2010
Sherri Scordo |
Frontline News Financial Services News: Branch Managers Break Away To Independence... Call For Fiduciary Standard Unites Disparate Forces (Sort Of)... Independent Contractor Status Under Review... Retirement Planning Industry To Be A Top Performer In New Decade... more... |
Registered Rep.
March 2, 2010
Kristen French |
Senate Nears Deal, Consumer Protection At The Fed Circulated Monday by Chris Dodd, Senate banking committee chairman, the latest proposal would house a semi-autonomous consumer protection agency inside of the Federal Reserve, according a story in the Financial Times. |
BusinessWeek
May 20, 2010
Jesse Westbrook & David Scheer |
How Big a Hit Will Goldman Take? Congress and the public expect the SEC to extract a big fine |
Registered Rep.
June 15, 2010
Kristen French |
Fiduciary Duty For All Hangs On Senator Tim Johnson After months and months of public debate and back-room deal-making, a final outcome on fiduciary duty -- the biggest issue for financial advisors, stockbrokers and wealth managers in the Wall Street reform bill -- may be decided Wednesday. |
