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Registered Rep.
September 23, 2008 |
SEC Charges Miami Broker Gary Gross Gary Gross has been charged with fraud by the SEC for selling his elderly clients unsuitable investments.   |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2005
Leitch & French |
2005 Year in Review Regulating You Stresses Them Out... Amalgamated Antimatter Anyone?... How About a Bull-Market Rain Dance?... Reps Have a Bad Rep... etc. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Blotter Regulators Collar Bear... Pattern of Abuse... Junk Fax Scalping... Judge Freezes Ponzi Scheme... |
Registered Rep.
July 30, 2012
Kristen French |
Blotter: August 2012 Among other actions, in July, the SEC charged former Connecticut resident Jerry S. Williams, a stock promoter, and two companies that he controlled, Monk's Den and First In Awareness, with civil fraud. |
Registered Rep.
August 26, 2004
Will Leitch |
SEC Fines Seven More Broker/Dealers The SEC has nailed some additional broker/dealers for failing to disclose payment relationships they had with companies their research departments covered. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2005
Will Leitch |
529 Plans in the Crosshairs To virtually no one's surprise, regulators have begun scrutinizing how 529 plans are peddled. |
Investment Advisor
August 2010
Melanie Waddell |
Advice to the SEC When it comes to the fiduciary standard, Capital Analysts President and CEO Matt Lynch says advisors "want to be sure the SEC seeks and gathers input from the industry as to how to implement these important changes." |
Registered Rep.
July 24, 2007
John Churchill |
SEC to RIAs: Welcome In keeping with regulators trying to be more proactive and less reactive, the SEC is cozying up to newly registered investment advisers. |
Registered Rep.
April 26, 2005
Kristen French |
A Pawn Takes the Queen Charles Elliott scores one for the "little guy," and proves that sometimes it pays for a broker to take on securities regulators, despite their financial and legal heft. |
Financial Advisor
January 2004
Jay Gould |
Washed Up On The Banks Of Denial The SEC has changed its policies regarding anti-fraud consent injunctions. How should investment advisors react? |
PC Magazine
May 3, 2006
John Brandon |
How to Fax from Your PC You probably have a fax machine built into your computer. Now you just have to learn how to use it. |
The Motley Fool
July 6, 2004
Tom Taulli |
Grim Reaper Visits EasyLink By all appearances, EasyLink is being hit for a minor offense. Not according to the SEC. |
Registered Rep.
October 23, 2007
David A. Geracioti |
If Allegations Prove True, File This Under: Stupid Broker The SEC has filed a complaint against a former LPL rep and branch manager, who, the SEC says, had been engaging in one of the oldest broker tricks in the book: stealing his clients money. |
BusinessWeek
October 30, 2006
Emily Thornton |
A Steady Drip of Buyout Leaks The Justice Dept. is investigating several cases where insiders may have traded on nonpublic information. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2004
Karen F. Donovan |
Raymond James Fights a Lonely Battle with the SEC After nearly two years of negotiations, the agency charged Raymond James Financial Services with civil fraud in connection with the conduct of a rogue broker who worked off-site as an independent rep in Cranston, R.I. |
Registered Rep.
February 18, 2004
John Churchill |
SEC Puts Forth Mutual Fund Rules Proposals The SEC has put forth three proposals that could drastically change the way mutual funds are sold. |
The Motley Fool
May 20, 2004
Tim Beyers |
American Express Unit in Scandal The broker could be a target of a regulatory inquiry into mutual funds revenue-sharing. How can you tell if your own broker or advisor has a conflict of interest? |
Investment Advisor
September 2009 |
Broker/Dealer News Actions by the SEC and FINRA |
Financial Advisor
May 2006
Andrew Gluck |
New Rule Causes Software Schizophrenia New financial software programs for advisors reflect the difference between fiduciary and suitability requirements. |
Registered Rep.
October 6, 2004
Leitch & Gaffen |
Raymond James Fights the SEC's Fraud Charges The SEC brought fraud charges against the Tampa-based firm, saying the firm had looked the other way when a former broker scammed investors of approximately $44.5 million between 1999 and 2000. |
Registered Rep.
April 20, 2011 |
Wednesday Link Roundup: April 20, 2011 Bill Gross Announces PIMCO Total Return Exchange-Traded Fund... What If Lehman Failed Today?... Advisors to Clients: The Tax Man Cometh... SEC Names New Head of National Broker/Dealer Program... more... |
Investment Advisor
November 2009
Melanie Waddell |
SEC Sets Out Strategic Plan The Securities and Exchange Commission publishes its Draft Strategic Plan outlining the Commission's strategic goals for 2010 through 2015. |
Registered Rep.
June 18, 2010
Bill Singer |
The UK Junks Its FSA, When Will We Junk The SEC The SEC is a gas-guzzling dinosaur of a vehicle whose engine warning-light went on years ago. It is a wheezing, dyspeptic boiler in our basement. Nothing good will come of this. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2009
Robert Pozen |
Think Twice Congress is seriously debating legislation that would significantly expand the coverage of the Investment Advisers Act, empower the SEC to make rules on advisor compensation and increase the likelihood of lawsuits against advisors. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2004
Will Leitch |
Archive Items Now? Most reps work under the assumption that all their professional correspondence could be scrutinized, and the SEC now is telling them that assumption is dead on. |
BusinessWeek
March 21, 2005
Amy Borrus |
Wall Street's Dirty Rotten Little Scoundrels The SEC has a new plan to turn up the heat on small-time Wall Street fraudsters. |
Fast Company
Steven Melendez |
Why Fax Won't Die Like many businesses in older industries, from law firms to medical labs, fax machines aren't seen as some '80s anachronism but as an efficient, reliable, and mostly secure way to communicate. |
Registered Rep.
March 11, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Extreme Makeover: SEC With or without an increased budget, the SEC wants to make up for its shortcomings. |
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. |
Investment Advisor
June 1, 2011
Thomas D. Giachetti |
From Deadlines to Lifelines The SEC extension of registration deadlines provides a potential grace period for stressed out advisors. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2009
Ken Fisher |
SEC Calling If you haven't violated any securities laws or otherwise abused client trust, you have nothing to fear. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2008
Jane Worthington |
Deficiency Letter 411 The SEC is running a pilot program to develop a standardized approach to the SEC deficiency letters presented to firms after an SEC examination. |
Registered Rep.
April 28, 2010
Bill Singer |
The SEC's Own Report Says that It Missed Tips and Clues in a Giant Ponzi Some have alleged improper political motives in the Stanford case, which the SEC has denied. |
Macworld
June 2003
Jeffery Battersby |
Page Sender 3.0 Top-notch fax application for the Mac |
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. |
Financial Advisor
May 2005
Evan Simonoff |
Editor's Note Ohio Republican Michael Oxley addresses the issue of exemption from RIA regulation that the SEC just granted brokers and specifically the Financial Planning Association's lawsuit. |
Investment Advisor
August 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Congress Presses Schapiro to Protect Investors While members of Congress praised SEC Chairman Schapiro for acting quickly to institute changes at the agency, lawmakers said more work needs to be done to protect investors. |
