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Registered Rep.
December 16, 2005
Halah Touryalai |
Former Pru Broker Penalized for Abusive Trading Three years after the SEC charged five Boston-based Prudential Securities brokers for abusive mutual fund trading, one of the accused is being temporarily barred from association with any broker/dealer or investment advisor.   |
Registered Rep.
August 29, 2006
Kristen French |
Pru Agrees to $600 Million Market-Timing Settlement Prudential Equity Group admitted to criminal wrongdoing in connection with the market-timing practices of a number of its brokers between 1999 and June, 2003. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Suddenly, A Monster Wachovia Securities has gradually, then all of a sudden, emerged as a monster brokerage firm. But Wachovia management insists that its Richmond roots aren't the only difference between it and its New York-based rivals. |
Registered Rep.
March 21, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Former Prudential Broker Barred for Market Timing A federal judge barred for life a former Prudential Securities broker for failing to respond to an order instituting proceedings issued by the SEC over fraud charges. But that may be the least of his worries. |
Registered Rep.
November 3, 2003
Will Leitch |
Fund Scandal Implicates Stockbrokers The mutual fund trading scandals headlines seemed to implicate mutual fund family executives and hedge funds -- everybody but individual retail brokers and brokerage management. But a new survey by the SEC charges brokers with abusive trading of mutual funds. |
Registered Rep.
January 12, 2006
John Churchill |
UBS Dinged $50 Million for Market Timing New York Stock Exchange Regulation, along with the New Jersey Bureau of Securities, today announced that UBS Financial Services was fined $49.5 million for failure to supervise the deceptive market timing activities of its brokers. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2005 |
Blotter Lawyers, Drugs and Money... More Market-Timing Fallout... Bank of America in Hot Seat... |
Registered Rep.
January 13, 2003
Gaffen & Geracioti |
Wachovia-Prudential: For Real This Time? Can you say Pru-chovia? Prudential Securities and Wachovia Securities are very close to an agreement to join forces, one that was scuttled earlier in the year, reportedly due to differences in who would control the unit. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Brokers Fear Arbitration... With arbitration cases on the rise, many brokers are worried about the prospect of being dragged through a legal process that, because of the current environment, some believe is heavily slanted toward the client. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2003
Gaffen & Geracioti |
What's Going to Happen to the Rock? The Prudential unit seems like a serious candidate for a sale. It has been losing money and been a perennial under-performer. |
U.S. Banker
April 2003
Glen Fest |
Going with the Flow Wachovia CEO Ken Thompson's deal with Prudential has tongues wagging and rivals paying close attention. The newly combined brokerage, nets the bank greater access to trillions of dollars that will pass from one generation to another over the next 10 years. Move over Merrill? |
Registered Rep.
September 27, 2004
David A. Gaffen |
Wachovia Securities in Technological Purgatory The Prudential/Wachovia Securities systems integration continues to frustrate the firms' advisors, although the most serious problems have been cleared up. |
BusinessWeek
October 20, 2003
Dwyer & Thornton |
Mutual Funds Feel The Heat Did they feed information to hedge funds, brokers, and others? |
Registered Rep.
July 30, 2003
Will Leitch |
SIA Says "Me Too" on Sales Fee Investigations Amid the brewing investigations into mutual fund sales practices, the Securities Industry Association came out last week in support of the new Joint NASD/Industry Task Force. |
Registered Rep.
July 25, 2007
Kevin Burke |
Smith Barney Fined $50 Million for Market Timing; More Firms, Reps To Be Fined So you thought the market timing scandal was over? Think again. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2004
David A. Gaffen |
The Tipping Point Depending on how the grid changes resolve continuing differences between the Pru and Wachovia payout plans, old Pru reps may be ready to walk. Advisors say that at this point, they are growing weary of promises and pep talks. |
Registered Rep.
March 18, 2005
Will Leitch |
Wachovia: On the Recruiting Warpath Wachovia Securities, the third-largest brokerage in the country, has announced an "aggressive" new strategy: the creation of the Individual Investor Group, entirely devoted to the recruitment and retention of individual brokers. |
Registered Rep.
November 30, 2005
Kristen French |
Wachovia Shaves Payout, Levels Charges on In-House and Outside SMAs After simplifying it's payout structure earlier this year, Wachovia Securities announced that it would make some more tweaks in 2006 and raise ticket charges on some in-house money-management products to match those of third-party products. |
Registered Rep.
January 17, 2003
Rick Weinberg |
Pru Tells Admin Managers To Dump Books Prudential Securities informed all of its administrative managers at the beginning of the year that if they were also producing brokers, they were no longer going to be paid commissions, according to sources. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2005
Karen Donovan |
No More Slap on the Wrist Regulators are getting tough and creative on registered reps because they suspect that fines aren't a strong enough deterrent to stop illegal behavior. |
Registered Rep.
May 28, 2009
Kristen French |
Former Brookstreet Brokers Hit With Fraud Charges Almost two years after their firm imploded, 16 brokers from Brookstreet Securities may have come to justice. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Wachovia: Back on Track Wachovia is back in good graces with its brokers. The many integration headaches of the firm's merger with Prudential Securities have finally subsided. Reps polled say management has tackled a number of improvements. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2005
Will Leitch |
Elder Abuse, Advisor Style The NASD says it will propose "significant" regulatory changes to the way variable annuities are sold, claiming elderly clients are being "scared" into investing in products against their best interests. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2005
David A. Gaffen |
Wachovia Goes Halvesies Keep it simple. That's the idea behind Wachovia Securities new grid, one that offers a round 50 percent payout to brokers, once they pass a $9,000 production threshold. |
Registered Rep.
October 25, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Another One Bites the Dust: Broker Fined Record Amount for Market-Timing Scheme The NASD fined Paul Saunders, a registered rep, CEO and majority owner of James River Capital Corporation, $2.25 million. That sum represents the largest fine against an individual for marketing timing, including disgorgement of about $750,000 in illegal profits. |
Registered Rep.
August 20, 2004 |
Meting out Justice: NASD Issues 'Extraordinary Remedy' on Broker/Dealer for Market-Timing Abuse In its investigation, the regulator found that from January 2001 through August 2002, National helped four hedge fund clients conduct market-timing in 13 funds that prohibited or restricted such activity. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
February 24, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Wachovia-Pru: What's Next The newly-announced joint venture between Wachovia's retail brokerage and Prudential Securities isn't scheduled to close for another 18 months. But the new company should be able to measure the effectiveness of its broker-retention strategy sooner than that. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2005
Steve Watkins |
Money in the Bank Bank-owned brokerage companies have awakened to the changes they need to make to attract top-shelf talent, and brokers are taking notice. |
Registered Rep.
January 8, 2003
Will Leitch |
NASD: Firms Are Overcharging Clients The NASD, acting on a tip acquired during an investigation, has sent several brokerage firms word that it has discovered brokers are not providing earned discounts to mutual fund investors, therefore overcharging them. |
Registered Rep.
September 3, 2008
John Churchill |
Brokers Charged In Fraudulently Selling $1bn Of ARS To Retail Clients In the first case of its kind, the SEC announced today that it has charged two individual financial advisors with fraud related to the sale of more than $1 billion in auction-rate securities. |
Investment Advisor
July 2007
Kara P. Stapleton |
News & Products Wachovia announced that it will acquire A. G. Edwards and fold it into Wachovia Securities... Prudential Financial is closing Prudential Equity Group, suspending the group's institutional equity research coverage and discontinuing the equity group's trading and sales arms in 13 cities... etc. |
Knowledge@Wharton
September 24, 2003 |
Mutual Fund Scandals: Once Again, Individual Investors Are the Losers Is the mutual fund industry going to become mired in the kind of scandal that has afflicted so many public companies over the past few years? |
Registered Rep.
November 27, 2002
Will Leitch |
Going Upstream Prudential gives up bringing the U.S. brokerage model to the Old World. |
Registered Rep.
September 29, 2008 |
Wachovia, The Bank, Saved by Citi; What Will Happen To Wachovia Securities? Firm Says The AGE Integration To Continue Unaffected Citigroup apparently thinks its got enough financial advisors: Citi declined to buy the retail brokerage business -- Wachovia Securities (and A.G. Edwards) -- and the asset management unit (Evergreen). |
Registered Rep.
December 2, 2003
Will Leitch |
Spitzer, OCC Issue Corporate Death Penalty The news came right before the Thanksgiving holiday, so you might have missed it. But let there be no doubt: The mutual fund investigations have now gone nuclear. |
Registered Rep.
February 18, 2003
David A. Geracioti |
Prudential and Wachovia Deal at Hand Wachovia Corp. and Prudential Financial are set to announce their long-rumored joint venture, a partnership that would combine the two firms' brokerage units and clearing operations to create the third-largest brokerage (by number of reps) in the United States after Merrill and Morgan. |
Registered Rep.
August 15, 2005
Kevin Burke |
SEC Nabs Brokers for Pirating Squawk Box Info The SEC has charged four brokers and a daytrader with cheating investors through a fraudulent scheme to eavesdrop on confidential order flow information, enabling them to "trade ahead" of large orders at more favorable prices. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2003
Will Leitch |
NASD Investigates Potential Breakpoint Violations The confusing slew of regulations that have followed on the heels of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has tapped a strange feeling in brokers: the fear of violating securities rules unwittingly. A recent investigation by the NASD shows their worries are not unfounded. |
Registered Rep.
June 24, 2004
John Churchill |
Morgan Stanley Sued by New Hampshire Regulators New Hampshire securities regulators are suing Morgan Stanley, charging that in 2002 the firm encouraged its brokers to sell proprietary mutual funds by using sales contests, a violation of NASD rules. |
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Blotter SEC Tackles Wachovia Insider... Supervisory Meltdown... Market Timing Geeks... |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Wach-Pru: Rock Steady, or Not Ready? Wachovia's courtship of Prudential Securities, for months one of the worst kept secrets on the Street, has come to fruition. Is the new organization capable of competing in the elite league it has entered? |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Morgan Stanley Boosts Pay for Fee Business Morgan Stanley unveiled a new compensation plan for brokers that rewards fee-based business and penalizes transactional business. |
Registered Rep.
May 2, 2007
John Churchill |
SEC Fines A.G. Edwards for Failure to Supervise Add A.G. Edwards to the long list of firms that have been fined by the SEC for long-ago failures to supervise brokers who deceptively market timed mutual funds. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2008
John Churchill |
The Failure Chain Consider the curious and rather grotesque case of Gary J. Gross, a financial advisor from Boca Raton, Fla. Gross' U4 is close to 100 pages long, and lists 35 customer complaints. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2005 |
Blotter John Van, head of Murphy Van Securities, was barred from the industry... The NASD fined 29 firms a total of $9.2 million for late reporting... The NASD's mutual fund task force released its initial report... |
CIO
July 1, 2004
Elana Varon |
Mutual Benefits To regain investor confidence and improve the bottom line, the mutual fund industry needs to integrate transactions up and down the supply chain. |
Registered Rep.
January 9, 2003
David A. Gaffen |
Wachovia Alters Production Payout Wachovia Securities has altered its monthly production bonus payout for 2003, moving up the monthly production level needed in order for brokers to avoid being penalized for monthly payouts. |
BusinessWeek
November 10, 2003
Dwyer & Borrus |
The Coming Mutual-Fund Reforms As mutual-fund abuses mount, regulators and lawmakers promise tough new rules. |
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2004
David A. Gaffen |
The Great Compliance Witch Hunt! Many clean brokers jump firms, only to discover their old broker/dealer besmirched their U4s. In a business where client realtionships are at stake, things can get ugly very quickly. |
