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Financial Advisor September 2009 |
Frontline News News for the financial services industry: Regulations, Fiduciaries And Other Things... Breakaway Broker Trend Slowing?... Barney Frank Won't Push SRO For Advisors... CFP Board's Proposed New Education Standard... M&A Activity Down, But Not Out... more... |
Financial Advisor November 2009 |
Frontline News Advisor News: Poll on advisor pay... Citi Embracing Fee-Only Model... RIAs Set Record For Repurchasing Their Firms... FINRA Expands Arbitration Pilot Program... SEC Expects To Examine 9% Of RIAs Annually... more... |
Financial Advisor November 2008 |
Frontline News News for the Financial Industry: Tumult Could Expand Ranks Of RIAs... M&A Activity Remains Healthy... Independent B-Ds: Don't Tread On Us... Who Has The Most Satisfied Advisors?... The Business Of Serving Business Owners... etc. |
Financial Advisor April 1, 2010 |
Frontline News Advisor news: Is Your Client's Private Info Secure?... Hybrid Brokerages Shine Light On New Space... CFP Aspirants Need A Plan... Wanted: Silver Bullet For Retirement Income... more... |
Financial Advisor November 2009 Jeff Schlegel |
The Great Debate Financial services reform is coming. How will it impact advisors? |
Financial Advisor December 2009 Sherri Scordo |
Frontline News Financial sector news: Financial Services Overhaul Getting Closer... McCann Making Mark At UBS... Main Street Securities B-D Now With National Planning... Small B-Ds Could Face Large Audit Costs... more... |
Financial Advisor March 2011 |
Frontline News Financial news: SRO Proposal: Quixotic Or Galvanizing?... Refereeing Games, Quarterbacking Clients... Musical Chairs Envelopes B-D World... Finra Upped Enforcement Actions In 2010... Pension Problems... A Taxing Matter... more... |
Registered Rep. June 30, 2010 Christina Mucciolo |
Clients, though Mostly Satisfied, in the Dark about FA Fees, Says Study Overall advisors and investors are still confused about what the advisors' fiduciary responsibility is exactly. |
Financial Advisor September 2012 Jeff Schlegel |
Not Making The Grade Financial advisors aren't as fiduciary as they should be, a new survey finds. |
Financial Advisor October 2011 |
Frontline News Independent Advisors On The Rise... Uncertain Times For BofA Advisors... Gen Y Good Target For Advisors... etc. |
Financial Advisor December 2010 |
Frontline News RIAs Transferred To States May Get Dual Exams... Piqued By Peak Oil... The Art Of The Referral... etc. |
Financial Planning January 1, 2012 Donna Mitchell |
Hot Topics SEC enforcement actions... Heartland hails dividends... Regulatory changes & volatility top concerns for retirement advisors... |
Financial Planning March 1, 2011 Larry Light |
The Tradeoff Registered investment advisors may end up getting to know a new regulator, but the tougher fiduciary standard they live under will also be extended to cover their broker-dealer rivals. |
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... |
Financial Advisor May 2011 Sherri Scordo |
Frontline News Is the broker protocol being eroded... Fiduciary can be marketing tool to get high net worth clients... Americans unconfident about their retirement... |
Financial Advisor November 2008 Gail Liberman |
War Breaks Out For Wirehouse Brokers The economic crisis on Wall Street, among many other things, is causing wirehouse brokers to reconsider the value proposition offered by the giant financial service firms. |
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. |
Financial Advisor |
Frontline News News of interest to advisors: Clients want insured investments... Francais succeeds Kochis as Aspiriant CEO... Financial Planning Association's Top Lobbyist Stepping Down... New Web sites keep advisors honest... more... |
Financial Advisor September 2008 |
Frontline News News of interest to the financial services industry: M&A Talks Hit Many Roadblocks... Ameriprise Buys H&R Block's Advisor Business... Morningstar Buys Developer Of dbCAMS+... Securities America To Buy Brecek & Young... etc. |
Financial Advisor March 2011 Jeff Schlegel |
Is Uniformity Possible? Broker-dealers expect some changes if a new fiduciary standard is adopted. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2012 Ken Corbin |
FINRA Penalties Soar in 2012 Suitability infractions were the most common source of FINRA s disciplinary actions |
Financial Advisor September 2011 |
Frontline News Laboring Over A Fiduciary Standard... Advisory/Brokerage Industry Still Climbing Out Of Meltdown Wreckage... Compliance Hot Spots... etc. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2010 Marion Asnes |
Envestnet's Fiduciary Opportunity Bill Crager, president of Envestnet, is not going to wait for Washington to figure out the fate of the fiduciary standard. The way he sees it, the market has already spoken. |
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. |
Investment Advisor March 2007 Melanie Waddell |
Leading the Way This year is shaping up into one in which advisors will have to stay compliant with a plethora of retirement planning rules and regs if they expect to stay firmly rooted in the retirement planning arena -- and doing what's best for their clients. |
On Wall Street April 1, 2011 Bennett Voyles |
FINRA Prosecutes More But Collects Less The rise in the number of actions could be related to increased regulatory pressure. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2012 Elizabeth Wine |
Financial Advisors Turn to the 401(k) Market for More Business Advisors look to 401(k) plans as fertile ground for business. |
Investment Advisor May 2007 |
The IA 25 This year's list of the 25 most influential individuals in and around the planning profession: Mary Shapiro... Rudy Adolf... Robert Arnott... Mark Tibergien... etc. |
Financial Advisor November 2007 |
Frontline News CFP Board Picks New Chief Of Exams And Education... Are Regulators Losing Their Mojo?... Gingrich, Ford: Save New York City... Staffing -- Not Clients or Revenues -- Is Advisors' Big Challenge... etc. |
Financial Advisor October 2008 |
Frontline News News: Wall Street Meltdown Could Swell RIA Ranks... Citigroup Defection Illustrates Talent Flight To RIAs... Merger Creates $1 Billion Fee-Only RIA Firm... Boosting Retirement Savings Longevity... Is The Commodities Party Over?... Hometown Investing Can Spoil A Portfolio... |
Financial Advisor June 2009 Sherri Scordo |
Frontline News A consortium of leading financial advisory trade organizations is calling for a professional standards-setting oversight board to establish financial planning standards for the industry. |
Investment Advisor January 1, 2011 Melanie Waddell |
FINRA Jockeys for SRO Spot as SEC Report to Congress Nears The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is engaged in a full-court press to convince the SEC that it should be the SRO for advisors. |
Financial Advisor November 2010 David Lawrence |
Back In The Fold? Will the new regulations force independents to return to broker-dealers? |
On Wall Street July 1, 2010 Frances A. McMorris |
Confusion Reigns Among Wirehouse Advisors On The Fiduciary Issue With all the frenzy over the call for a universal fiduciary standard for all financial and investment advisors, it appears that those in the wirehouses don't really understand the debate. |
Financial Advisor July 2008 |
Frontline News News of interest to the financial community: CFP Board's New Conduct Standards... SEC Examining More RIAs... Advisors Await Word On New Privacy Regulations... First Western Buys Fourth RIA Firm, Doubles Size...etc. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2010 Brian Hamburger |
Regulation Season A look forward at the real effects of regulatory change - and they could be as unattractive as they are expensive. |
Financial Advisor September 2012 |
Finra Fines On Pace To Exceed 2011 Totals Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fines and disciplinary actions for 2012 are on track to significantly outpace those for 2011, according to a midyear review from the law firm Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP. |
Registered Rep. March 15, 2013 Megan Leonhardt |
A "Tougher" FINRA? FINRA has stepped up the number of cases and the value of fines they levied against advisors last year, but that doesn't neccessarily mean that the indstury's self-regulatory organization is getting any tougher. |
Financial Advisor January 2012 Bruce W. Fraser |
Full Steam Ahead What could have been a sad chapter for Securities America now seems to be a new lease on life for the firm. |
Financial Advisor November 2011 |
Frontline News Managing volatility in unstable markets... Patent -- and potential hassles -- pending over wealthcare case... Bank on it (not)... |
Financial Advisor January 6, 2010 |
Frontline News Private-Placement Claims Surge... Holding Companies Holding On... Thin Wallets... Average Withdrawal Rates Decrease... UMAs Slow To Win Fans... |
Financial Advisor March 2012 Eric Rasmussen |
Swimming In Shallow Water Broker-dealers face a stagnant rep pool, shrinking margins and the choke hold of regulators. But it's been a boon to the biggest consolidators. |
Financial Advisor July 2011 Andrew Gluck |
Redefining Financial Advice The fate of professionalization and the FPA hang in the regulatory balance. |
Financial Advisor February 2009 Sherri Scordo |
Frontline News Broker-Dealer View On Regulation... Tax (Saving) Season Is Here... Credit Crisis May Hurt Wealth Management... ChFC Requirements Get Tougher... |
Financial Advisor June 2007 |
Frontline News SEC Won't Appeal Court Decision... Fidelity Offering For RIAs... 12(b)-1 Fees, Advisors' Growing Role, Are Focus At ICI Fund Conference... etc. |
Financial Advisor December 2009 Eric Rasmussen |
Big Guys Fight Back Broker-dealers try to find their bearings in 2010 as their antagonists push back. |
Registered Rep. December 7, 2011 Philip Palaveev |
The Say on Pay: Registered Rep.'s 2011 Compensation Survey Financial advisors continue to expand their practices, work with more clients and receive ample compensation for their efforts. |
Financial Advisor August 2012 Karen DeMasters |
The Great Migration Though they aren't moving as fast as they were a few years ago, advisors are still in play for independent broker-dealers. |
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 November 2006 |
Now and Then When it comes to plowing through the complexities that are associated with retirement planning, advisors need all the help they can get. Fidelity looks ahead to dominate retirement planning now. |