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On Wall Street
March 1, 2011
Lorie Konish |
A Uniform Fiduciary Standard May Reduce Investment Choices The fallout from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent recommendation of a uniform fiduciary standard rolls on. As dates for hearings hang in the air, so do the possible effects on the wealth management industry.   |
Registered Rep.
May 31, 2013
Megan Leonhardt |
Sizing Up the Street In the latest earnings cycle, here's how the wirehouses stacked up. |
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 Advisor
May 2011
Andrew Gluck |
Finra Makes Its Move Who regulates financial advisors may shift. Here's a look at the positions various groups are taking on fiduciary standards. |
Investment Advisor
January 1, 2011
John Sullivan |
State of Regulation: A Conversation with FSI's Dale Brown The Financial Services Institute will branch out to help advisors with small business issues. |
Financial Advisor
March 2012
Brian Hamburger |
Success Breeds Envy Wirehouses and banks wage their most successful battle yet against RIAs. |
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 Advisor
July 2011
Andrew Gluck |
Redefining Financial Advice The fate of professionalization and the FPA hang in the regulatory balance. |
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... |
On Wall Street
July 1, 2012 |
Five Questions With John Taft John Taft talks about his new book, Stewardship: Lessons Learned from the Lost Culture of Wall Street, and how advisors can help guide the industry toward rebuilding trust. |
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 Planning
July 1, 2012
Bob Veres |
Gaps of Logic FINRA has been an effective bludgeon against the small independent B-D world, creating paperwork requirements whose costs are best amortized over larger hordes of retail advisors. |
Investment Advisor
August 2010
Janet P. Levaux |
Reform's Impact on Advisors, Broker/Dealers, and Banks "This is a tough law that will also have profound effects on the operations and cost structure of most financial services companies and financial markets," said Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association president and CEO Tim Ryan in a statement on June 25. |
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. |
Investment Advisor
February 2010
Marlene Y. Satter |
Broker/Dealer Briefing: New Leader for FSI A short conversation with Mari Buechner, CCO and CEO of Coordinated Capital Securities, and the new chair of the Financial Services Institute. |
Financial Advisor
March 2011
Jeff Schlegel |
Is Uniformity Possible? Broker-dealers expect some changes if a new fiduciary standard is adopted. |
Investment Advisor
May 1, 2011 |
Follow the Leaders: The 2011 IA 25 Announcing the 2011 IA 25 - Fiduciary, behavior, retirement and much more |
Registered Rep.
February 28, 2012
Diana Britton |
Yield of Dreams: FSI to DOL -You're on Your Own Last September, the Department of Labor announced it would repropose its rule on the application of the fiduciary standard to retirement accounts. This was a major coup for the Financial Services Institute, which has been vehemently opposed to the rule. |
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 |
Finance & Development
June 2011 |
Making Friends A strong connection exists between financial industry lobbying and favorable financial legislation. |
Registered Rep.
November 9, 2006
Kevin Burke |
SIFMA Launch: Group Seeks Greater Clout in Washington, Single Regulatory Framework Purveyors of stocks and bonds officially joined forces this week to form one of the most powerful lobbying groups on Capitol Hill. The former Securities Industry Association (SIA) kicked off its newly consummated marriage to the Bond Market Association (BMA). |
Financial Advisor
November 2009
Jeff Schlegel |
The Great Debate Financial services reform is coming. How will it impact advisors? |
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 |
On Wall Street
June 1, 2011 |
The Leaders Speak The most influential leaders in wealth management today expound on evolution, revolution, moving the debate past wirehouse versus independent, and more. |
Registered Rep.
April 13, 2012
Kristen French |
Wells Fargo Wealth Management Business Posts Stagnant First Quarter Wells Fargo's wealth management business reported no growth in assets and a slight decline in advisors for the first quarter versus the same time period a year ago. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2007
Bob Veres |
The Dual Reality The FSI and independent broker-dealer community have become pivotal voices in the profession. What they see in the future might surprise you. |
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. |
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... |
Investment Advisor
September 2010
Melanie Waddell |
The Playing Field: The Dodd-Frank Reform Bill Afterlife A fiduciary standard for all may crimp RIAs' competitive edge. |
On Wall Street
June 1, 2013 |
Fiduciary Standard Debate Heats Up As federal regulators move ahead with a pair of rulemaking proceedings that could dramatically reshape the financial advisory industry, advocates of broader fiduciary responsibilities are urging advisors to make their voices heard in Washington. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2006
David Spinar |
Even the Playing Field Congress needs to standardize the regulations for investment advisors and broker-dealers. |
Investment Advisor
March 2010
James J. Green |
Broker/Dealer Briefing: Independent Broker/Dealers Celebrate Earned Credibility The Financial Services Institute lays out its agenda, starting with preservation of independent contractor status. |
Investment Advisor
October 2010
Melanie Waddell |
Dissecting the FSI's Position on Fiduciary As a new study finds investors still confused, Financial Services Institute president Dale Brown presents the independent broker/dealer perspective. |
Investment Advisor
October 2007
K. McBride & K. Stapleton |
Birds of a Feather More than ever, the professional associations that cater to financial planners and advisors are having a meaningful impact outside the planning community itself, among consumers, in the courts, and on Capitol Hill. |
On Wall Street
February 1, 2011
Lorie Konish |
Dodd-Frank's Effects Will Be Felt In 2011, For Better Or Worse After a watershed year for legislation related to the financial services industry, 2011 will likely be a time when the ripples from those changes just begin to reach the industry, according to a SIFMA industry panel in January. |
Investment Advisor
September 2007 |
News & Products Morgan Stanley DW Inc. has been fined $1.5 million... Wells Fargo & Co.'s Wells Fargo Home Mortgage announced that it will close its nonprime wholesale lending business... etc. |
Registered Rep.
December 21, 2012
Megan Leonhardt |
Looking Back, 2012 A Mixed Bag For Wirehouses Assets mostly were up, but advisors are on the move. |
Registered Rep.
October 6, 2009
Kristen French |
FSI Urges Alternatives To Proposed Investor Protection Act The Financial Services Institute recommends closing regulatory gaps between the two sides of the industry, and suggested that an industry-run, rather than a government-run, regulator would be best for the job. |
Investment Advisor
October 2010
Melanie Waddell |
Obama Calls for End to Some Bush-Era Tax Cuts; Fiduciary Lobbying Continues Some experts see a tax deal in early 2011 |
Registered Rep.
October 17, 2011
Kristen French |
Wells Fargo Wealth/Brokerage Client Assets Decline; Asset-Based Revenue Up Wells Fargo's wealth brokerage and retirement businesses reported third quarter income of $291 million, up 14 percent versus the year ago quarter, while revenue for the division was down 1 percent from the year ago quarter. |
Registered Rep.
March 7, 2011
Charles Paikert |
ABA Conference: Wealth Managers Grappling With Dodd-Frank Act The impact that the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection will have on bankers is still uncertain. |
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
November 1, 2010
Trone & Harvey |
The New Rules of the Road The following four regulatory reforms will likely have the most impact on the financial services industry over the next 24 months. Here's a short synopsis of what they will require. |
On Wall Street
February 1, 2010
Frances A. McMorris |
When Firms Collide: Is Culture Clash Inevitable? Merged companies have been integrated and new executives have taken up their posts, but everyone is still trying to adjust. |
On Wall Street
January 1, 2013
Elizabeth Wine |
10 Power Players for 2013 On Wall Street profiles the most influential personalities in the advisory industry this year. |
Investment Advisor
September 2010
Bob Clark |
Clark at Large: Time to Represent, Advisor Leaders! Advisors can play a powerful role in the SEC's fiduciary deliberations, if they can get their leaders to lead. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
January 27, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Indie Broker Trade Group Sets 2006 Agenda at San Diego Conference At its second annual conference, the Financial Services Institute spinoff organization announced more plans to represent the special interests of indie b/ds with regulators, including the launch of FSI PAC, a Washington lobbying unit. |
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 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. |
