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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
November 2005
Tracey Longo |
The Embattled Broker Exemption Rule While advisors talk a good game about their desire to see consumers protected by meaningful regulation, the Financial Planning Association remains the sole litigant in its lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission's so-called Merrill rule. |
Investment Advisor
December 2006
James J. Green |
The Conference Season The fall is conference season for investment advisors and financial planners, marked this year by two of the biggest annual gatherings held just weeks apart -- The Financial Planning Association's meeting followed by Schwab Institutional's Impact show. |
Financial Advisor
August 2006 |
Frontline News SEC To Research Broker Rule... The Affluent Reportedly Less Confident... Schwab Assets Boosted As Webcasts Reach Broker Converts... Space Station Vet To Speak... etc. |
Financial Advisor
November 2004 |
Frontline News New CFP Board CEO Offers Her Ideas... FPA Has Its Day On Capitol Hill, Mixing Planning With Politics... Investigations May Aid Lawsuit To Rollback Broker Exemption... RIA Business Boomed in 2003, But Profit Margins Shrank... etc. |
Financial Advisor
March 2004 |
Frontline News Former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt stunned attendees at TD Waterhouse's annual conference in Orlando in early February when, in response to a question, he indicated he was opposed to a proposed rule that would grant exemption from registered investment advisor registration for wirehouse brokers. |
Financial Advisor
February 2005 |
Frontline News Financial Planning Association Dismissive Of SEC Action On Broker Exemption... Brokerages, Funds Await New Regulations... Pape Says Certified Financial Planner Board Will Focus On Accountability... etc. |
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
May 2005 |
Frontline News FPA Weighs Decision On Lawsuit's Fate... Female Planners Have Reasons To Be Optimistic, Study Finds... Fidelity Expanding Commitment To RIA Business... LPL Hits The Road To Help Advisors Train Staff... IRAs Safe From Creditors But Only in Some States... Lack Of Planning Adds To Woes Of Special Needs Families... |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2005
John Churchill |
A Monster Issue Will the SEC withdraw the Broker-Dealer Exemption, causing reps to back away from adviser status? If so, the impact could cause substantial disruption in the markets. |
Financial Advisor
July 2004 |
Problems Cited In Broker-Dealers' Variable Insurance Sales and More The newly released study comes as the NASD is proposing new rules governing the sale of deferred variable annuities... Board Of Standards Increases CFP Certification Fee... Technology Continues To Frustrate Advisors, FPA Study Says... etc. |
Investment Advisor
March 2006
Melanie Waddell |
Piling On Keeping up with compliance chores will continue to occupy a substantial portion of advisors' time, as industry officials and observers are steadfast in their belief that regulatory scrutiny by the SEC and NASD isn't going away. |
Registered Rep.
April 8, 2005
John Churchill |
`Merrill Rule' Debate Not Over The SEC unanimously voted to allow Series 7 holders, or registered reps, to position themselves as financial advisors -- with certain caveats. But once again the SEC seemed to hedge its bet. So the debate rages on. |
Financial Advisor
September 2011 |
Frontline News Laboring Over A Fiduciary Standard... Advisory/Brokerage Industry Still Climbing Out Of Meltdown Wreckage... Compliance Hot Spots... etc. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2005
Andrew Osterland |
Brokering Advice The essential difference between brokers and registered advisors, say financial planners, is fiduciary duty. The notion that b/ds have a lighter burden of regulation than registered advisors, however, is something the securities industry vigorously disputes. |
Financial Advisor
July 2006 |
Frontline News FPA Members Support Fiduciary Standards... NAPFA Honors Bradley For Exemption Stance... Focused On The Top, Focus Grows Again... Planners Stay Happy Despite Earnings Decline... etc. |
Registered Rep.
March 30, 2005
John Churchill |
House Urges SEC to Adopt Broker-Dealer Exemption Rule At issue, at least as far as financial planners are concerned, is that registered reps are presenting themselves as fiduciaries, when in fact they are brokers with a less-than-fiduciary responsibility to their clients. |
Financial Advisor
February 2007 |
Frontline News Schwab Offering Loans To RIAs Going Independent... TD Ameritrade Purchases iRebal... Suitability Standards For DPPs Could Rise... N.J. Firm Was B-D's Biggest Catch In '06... etc. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2007
Bob Veres |
Victory, for Now Brokerage firms have little choice but to adapt to a world in which their traditional service -- clearing trades and executing transactions -- has become "solely incidental" to the increasingly valuable business of providing advice. |
Financial Advisor
October 2005 |
Frontline News Advisors Help Colleagues Affected By Katrina... Intuit Enters Portfolio Management Arena... Inefficient Operations Are Eating Up Revenue Growth... RIAs Overwhelmingly Oppose B-D Exemption... etc. |
Investment Advisor
August 2009
James J. Green |
Schwab Cuts Costs for Its Advisors Charles Schwab Advisor Services announced a series of moves that will have the net effect of reducing costs to the RIAs that custody with Schwab. |
Financial Advisor
July 2011
Andrew Gluck |
Redefining Financial Advice The fate of professionalization and the FPA hang in the regulatory balance. |
Investment Advisor
May 2007
Melanie Waddell |
Victory for the FPA The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit overturned the SEC's Merrill rule. |
Financial Advisor
December 2003 |
Brown To Head New Brokerage Association Broker-dealers are moving ahead with their plans to exit the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and form an independent association of their own. Dale E. Brown, most recently associate executive director of the FPA, will serve as chief executive officer and executive director. |
Financial Advisor
January 2004 |
Frontline News Barnash Named Financial Planning Association President-Elect... FPA Will Close Atlanta Office And Move Staff To Denver... Competitive Environment Expected To Intensify... PA Announces Major Events For 2004... Investor Faith In Mutual Funds May Be Weakened, Surveys Indicate... tudy Finds That Concentrated Funds Perform Better... Look First, Before Leaping Into A Charity... |
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. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Of Two Minds An internecine argument at the FPA gets to the heart of one of the industry's more vexing problems: Should brokers be able to position themselves as financial planners? |
Registered Rep.
January 8, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
A Hedge Fund Resurgence There is legislation in Congress that would require hedge funds to make greater disclosures about the details of their operations. The increased regulation coupled with a recent uptick in hedge fund performance will likely entice some advisors to put their clients back into hedge funds. |
Financial Advisor
September 2006
Andrew Gluck |
Referencing Referrals While many financial advisors around the country struggle to bring in new clients and grow their businesses, others enjoy an embarrassment of riches -- they have so much new business they don't know how to handle it. Why? |
Registered Rep.
March 30, 2007
John Churchill |
Surprise! FPA Wins Lawsuit Against SEC and the Broker-Dealer Exemption Three years after suing the SEC over the controversial "Broker Dealer Exemption" rule, a federal court has ruled that the SEC exceeded its authority in adopting the rule. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2005 |
News Digest News: SEC approves broker-dealer exemption... Companies: Waterhouse Sued For False Advertising... Compliance: Using the Internet for Disclosure... Investments: ETF Sellers Dwindle... etc. |
Financial Advisor
August 2004 |
New Accounts Won't Cover Lifetime Medical Cost Health Savings Accounts will fall short... Advisors Cautious On New Hedge Fund Rule... Portfolio Management Software... Managers Bullish On U.S. Equities... etc. |
Registered Rep.
April 6, 2005
John Churchill |
SEC Adopts Broker-Dealer Exemption Over the vociferous objections of fee-only financial planners, the SEC voted unanimously to permanently adopt the broker/dealer exemption rule, formerly known as the Merrill Lynch exemption. |
Investment Advisor
March 2008
Bob Clark |
The Empire Strikes Back Wall Street's crafty response to its whipping over the Merrill rule. |
Financial Advisor
January 2006
Sydney LeBlanc |
Embracing The F Word US Fiduciary offers a business model that is attracting ultra-high-end advisors who want to be fiduciaries. |
Registered Rep.
January 3, 2008
Christina Mucciolo |
SEC's RAND Study Released The SEC release the results of the RAND study, which examined how broker/dealers and investment advisors market products and services to investors, and how investors understand the differences between investment advisors and broker/dealers. |
Investment Advisor
February 2008
Melanie Waddell |
A Groundbreaker SEC's Rand report, of the broker/dealer and investment advisory industries will dominate the discussion among brokers and advisors in 2008. |
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... |
Investment Advisor
May 2007
Bob Clark |
We Win, Sort Of How the FPA can make the most out of its upset victory over the SEC. |
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
September 2010 |
Frontline News Frontline News: Advisory Industry Faces Talent Shortage... Rule Change Could Crimp Alternative-Oriented '40 Act Funds... FPA Announces Heart Of Financial Planning Award Winners... more... |
Financial Advisor
October 2010 |
Frontline News New SEC requirements that financial advisors create a plain-English version of Form ADV Part 2... Fiduciary Standard Lobbying Season... Does Schwab's Purchase Of An RIA Portend A New Trend?... etc. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2007 |
The Great Reckoning Whatever the specific business impact the Merrill Lynch ruling may have, many see the return to pre-1999 rules as a chance for the brokerage industry, which has long avoided fiduciary duty for business and regulatory reasons, to overcome those obstacles and embrace it. |
Financial Advisor
February 2004
Evan Simonoff |
The Other Side Of Hedge Funds Some advisors are using hedge funds to minimize risk, not boost returns. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Fido Attacks! Long a distant second to Charles Schwab in the lucrative business of serving financial advisors, Fidelity is making an aggressive push to close that gap. And some advisors are taking notice. |
Registered Rep.
February 2, 2006
Kristen French |
Brokers Learning to Play by New Rules It's no longer business as usual on Wall Street. Starting yesterday, broker/dealers must follow a new SEC rule that requires them to disclose at certain times that they may not be acting in their clients' best interest. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2011
Bob Veres |
Things I Just Don't Understand Is there any profession, anywhere, that's raised its own standards voluntarily, identified and reduced its own conflicts of interest voluntarily and lobbied harder on behalf of consumer protections than the financial planning profession over the past 30 years? |
Financial Advisor
July 2011 |
Frontline News F.A. Confidential... Fears Of Muni Meltdown Are Overblown... B-Ds, RIAs Ready To Boost Hiring... Schwab To Sell Independent Franchises... etc. |
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. |
