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Financial Planning
April 1, 2012
Bob Veres
21st Century Regulation What is the best way to regulate fiduciary RIAs? How best can we identify and weed out bad apples and better protect consumers in the process? mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
April 1, 2012
John K. Ritter
Fight On There is a major fight going on between planners and regulators about how to define and apply a fiduciary standard. Yet despite the high stakes, it seems that few planning professionals have chosen to join in and make their opinions known. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
February 1, 2012
John F. Wasik
State of Regulation As states take over regulation of RIAs with up to $100 million in assets under management, many firm owners are wondering if the transition will prove difficult. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
November 2011
Evan Simonoff
What Gives At The SEC? For several decades, the Securities and Exchange Commission has contended that it does not have sufficient resources to examine and inspect RIAs. Consequently, many have concluded that Finra is the default option for all RIA regulation. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
May 2010
David Tittsworth
What a Reinvigorated SEC Will Mean for You The first in a series of occasional commentaries by the executive director of the Investment Adviser Association. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
July 2011
Andrew Gluck
Redefining Financial Advice The fate of professionalization and the FPA hang in the regulatory balance. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
February 2009
Melanie Waddell
Is Mary What the SEC Needs? The alternative to FINRA overseeing advisors, and what advisors would definitely prefer, is a self-regulatory organization. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
July 2009
Sherri Scordo
Compliance Concerns There's a lot of buzz these days about potential changes in compliance rules and the impact on advisors. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
February 1, 2008
Bob Veres
Death by Regulation The financial planning profession is about to fight for its survival against well-funded opponents. Here are some possible outcomes. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
July 2009
Bob Clark
Clark at Large: Reality Check Washington is far more likely to tweak the existing system than to rewrite the investment advisor legislation. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
September 2010
Thomas D. Giachetti
The Compliance Coach: Will the SEC Ever Learn? Don't Count On It Get ready for new custody and ADV rules, and the $100 million threshold. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2007
Turf Wars Over Advice The age-old debate between the b/d and investment advisor (RIA) industries over who should be able to provide advice and when, and whose regulatory regime offers better investor protections, is far from over. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
July 1, 2011
Bob Clark
If You Want Something Done Right It's beginning to look like the only way Dodd-Frank reregulation is going to turn out well is if RIAs form their own SRO. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
October 2012
Brian Hamburger
Sleight Of Hand The apparent death knell of Finra as an SRO by no means signals victory. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
December 1, 2011
Bob Veres
Regulatory Armaggedon The Republican leadership in Congress has proposed that the SEC authorize one or more self-regulatory organizations to take over regulation of RIAs. This has been coordinated with massive Wall Street lobbying. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
March 1, 2011
Bob Veres
Gold Into Straw In mid-January, the SEC released its "Study on Investment Advisers and Broker-Dealers" to Congress. Analyzing the study provides an insightful look into how the SEC views the "harmonization" of two different regulatory structures. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
March 1, 2010
What's Happening to Regulation? Whether we like it or not, we do live in a post-Madoff world, and it's impossible to separate his crimes from the dialogue surrounding regulatory reform. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
February 2011
Evan Simonoff
A Different Playing Field Regulatory reform is at the top of RIAs' minds going into 2011. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
November 2009
Jeff Schlegel
The Great Debate Financial services reform is coming. How will it impact advisors? mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
February 2009
James J. Green
Growth, and Advocacy A conversation with Diahann Lassus, NAPFA Chair, about NAPFA's growth, what the reaction will be in Washington to the Bernie Madoff scandal, and what NAPFA hopes to accomplish with the financial planning coalition. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
June 29, 2010
Halah Touryalai
The New Sheriffs In Town The SEC examines about 9 percent of the 11,000 or so advisory firms under its jurisdiction annually. All of that is about to change with a little help from regulators at the state level. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
February 7, 2012
Diana Britton
Are Regulations Killing the Hybrid Financial Advisor? Some advisors say new compliance and regulatory burdens under Dodd-Frank are making the hybrid model untenable. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
October 2010
Andrew Gluck
Pulling The Switch Are state regulators ready to assume oversight of some 4,200 RIAs? mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
October 13, 2010
Charles Paikert
SEC Family Office Ruling Set to Open Doors for RIAs to Gather Assets RIAs can benefit from family offices' inclination to gravitate to smaller, boutique firms, as opposed to working with impersonal financial behemoths. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
February 2009
Melanie Waddell
Teaming Up for Change The National Association of Personal Financial Advisors, the Financial Planning Association, and the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards -- which have joined forces to lobby Congress on financial services reform -- christen themselves the Financial Planning Coalition. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
December 1, 2010
Donna Mitchell
Turning on the Charm Next month the SEC reports to Congress on its recommendations for enhancing examinations for investment advisors. FINRA, meanwhile, is trying to persuade movers and shakers on the Hill that it already has the answers. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Planning
May 1, 2011
Bob Veres
To the World of 2020 I'm writing this column to help you address the issue on the minds of investors and consumers everywhere in your future day and age: How can we finally fix the regulatory system after the latest traumatic events shook the markets to their core? mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
March 2005
Tracey Longo
The Watchdog Inside Your Firm The SEC is making your chief compliance officer a whistleblower. Advisors' success with regulators in 2005 will depend largely on whether they trip themselves up or are able to create a business model that is better aligned with their clients. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
September 16, 2011
Jerry Gleeson
RIA Interest in Financial Planning Grows, Industry Data Suggests Financial planning activities are playing a growing role in the service offerings of registered investment advisors. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
March 2011
Evan Simonoff
Seeing Is Almost Believing FINRA CEO, Rick Ketchum, came across as an exceptionally intelligent, well-meaning person with a remarkable understanding of both the securities and investment advisory businesses. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
July 8, 2015
Jerry Gleeson
The New Sheriffs In 2012, more than 2,000 RIA firms who had only known the regulatory scrutiny of the Securities and Exchange Commission were transitioned over to the Wild West of state securities regulators. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
March 10, 2010
Jerry Gleeson
New RIA Custody Rules In Force Friday New rules aimed at preventing registered investment advisors from pulling off ponzi schemes are now in effect. mark for My Articles similar articles
Registered Rep.
March 14, 2012
Jerry Gleeson
The Long Goodbye This year, about 3,200 mid-sized RIAs will say goodbye to the Securities and Exchange Commission, transferring their registration to the states where they do business. mark for My Articles similar articles
On Wall Street
July 1, 2009
Helen Kearney
The 'F' Word Stirs Up Controversy Advisors who fall under the new fiduciary standard, namely investment advisors who run a fee-based business, must always put clients' interests before of their own. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
June 2011
David Lawrence
A New Dawn More firms may merge or form strategic alliances in the wake of new rules that require small advisors to switch regulators. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
February 2010
Chester Wright
Expert's Corner: Small, Yes, But Compliant How smaller RIA firms can shoulder the compliance burden. mark for My Articles similar articles
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 mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
May 1, 2011
Bob Clark
The Polar Bears Thawing out our modern black and white thinking could save the fiduciary standard. I don't usually write about politics, except when it has a direct impact on financial advice, and this appears to be one of those times. mark for My Articles similar articles
On Wall Street
February 1, 2010
Five Questions with David Tittsworth David Tittsworth has served in all three branches of government and discusses ways to police the advisory business. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
September 2012
Jeff Schlegel
Not Making The Grade Financial advisors aren't as fiduciary as they should be, a new survey finds. mark for My Articles similar articles
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." mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
June 2008
Mark Tibergien
Truth and Consequence Are more regulations for the financial services sector really needed, or just better enforcement of what's now on the book? mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
May 2008
Melanie Waddell
Donohue on the Rand Report & Paulson SEC exec doesn't foresee a single regulator for advisors and broker/dealers. mark for My Articles similar articles
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. mark for My Articles similar articles
Financial Advisor
September 2005
Bruce W. Fraser
How To Survive The SEC Assault Advisors cite a new, more demanding compliance environment. Despite the extra financial and time burden, many advisors feel much better about their businesses, having gone through the compliance process. mark for My Articles similar articles
Investment Advisor
July 1, 2011
Melanie Waddell
Fiduciary D-Day Arrives As the SEC launches into rulemaking, lots of 'thorny issues' will surface. mark for My Articles similar articles