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Registered Rep.
April 1, 2006
Kristen French |
Your Fees Under the Regulator Microscope Financial advisors had better be able to justify their fees, because regulators have been busy examining fees charged to retail clients.   |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2006 |
Cold Call: Dick O'Brien In this interview, the self-proclaimed "Bond Geek" discusses selling bonds and the bond market in general. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Merrill Call Centers Gone Wild Merrill Lynch agreed to pay a $5 million NASD fine to settle charges that the firm's brokerage client call centers were poorly supervised. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Blotter Regulators Collar Bear... Pattern of Abuse... Junk Fax Scalping... Judge Freezes Ponzi Scheme... |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Warren Buffett: Cartoon Superhero The 75-year old investment guru will play an animated version of himself in a 13-part DVD Series called The Secret Millionaire's Club. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2006
Kristen French |
Compliance Costs: Double the Trouble In a study conducted in February of this year, the SIA found that annual industrywide compliance costs have nearly doubled in the past three years -- to $25 billion in 2005 from $13 billion in 2002, or 5% of the industry's annual net revenues. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2006
Kevin Burke |
60 Seconds with...Bob Doll The president and CIO of MLIM, who will become vice chairman, CIO of global equities and chairman of the private client operating committee at BlackRock when the merger with Merrill Lynch goes through, discusses the anatomy of the deal. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2006 |
Comings & Goings ING has named Catherine Bonneau chief operating officer of its independent broker/dealer... Robert Finn has joined Piper Jaffray as an advisor... Philip Horn and Mark Lindee, each with $125 million in client assets, have recently joined Wachovia... etc. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Herd Mentality Instead of being the value-adders they're supposed to be, brokers seem to be following the larger herd of investors. A recent survey shows about two-thirds of brokers invest more than half of the asset they manage with a single mutual fund family. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2006
Stan Luxenberg |
To Define a Theft For all the uncertainties, the SEC continues battling the mutual fund market-timing problem. After the scandal broke, the regulator promised tough moves to stop the questionable trading. But so far, the pace of change has been slow. |
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