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Wall Street & Technology June 4, 2004 Jessica Pallay	Fund Fixes Mutual funds are taking action to prepare for potential regulations on market timing, but there aren't any easy answers.
Financial Advisor December 2003 Alan Lavine	A Look At Fair-Value Pricing Will fair-value pricing boost a foreign stock fund's performance by keeping market-timing arbitrageurs out of the fund? Recent research says yes, but it may be too early to evaluate the impact of fair-value pricing on a fund's total return.
Wall Street & Technology February 12, 2004 Jessica Pallay	Operation Mutual Fund The SEC is on a mission to bring order to the chaotic state of the mutual-fund industry.
Financial Advisor June 2005 Darwin K. Abrahamson	Avoiding Redemption Fees In 401(k) Plans Since it's indisputable that redemption fees are becoming entrenched within mutual funds at an accelerated pace, an obvious solution to avoiding redemption fees altogether is to invest in exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 Dwyer & Thornton	Mutual Funds Feel The Heat Did they feed information to hedge funds, brokers, and others?
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?
BusinessWeek September 22, 2003 Anne Tergesen	How Traders Play the Timing Game Finance professor Jason Greene explains why this technique hurts buy-and-hold fund investors and how to protect yourself
Wall Street & Technology January 4, 2004 Jessica Pallay	Is Time on Your Side? As trading abuses are exposed, the mutual-fund industry contemplates how to stop the late bird from getting the worm.
BusinessWeek September 22, 2003 Der Hovanesian et al.	How to Fix the Mutual Funds Mess Hidden fees, lax boards, and now scandal. Here's what has to be done.
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.
BusinessWeek November 10, 2003 Jeffrey M. Laderman	Mutual Funds: What To Do Now Wondering how to cope with the growing scandal? Here are some answers.
Wall Street & Technology October 26, 2005	Costly Timing According to a report, compliance with the SEC's regulatory response to market timing abuses - Rule 22c-2 - will cost the mutual fund industry a total of $617.5 million over the next three years.
Wall Street & Technology August 22, 2005 Atul Seth	Mutual Fund Musts Seven key compliance imperatives that will have a major impact on the mutual fund industry over the next year and suggestions on how firms can meet the challenges posed by the requirements successfully.
BusinessWeek December 22, 2003 Amy Borrus	Funds: Leaving Little Guys Out In The Cold The SEC's cleanup of mutual funds could shortchange small investors.
Registered Rep. March 16, 2006 John Churchill	Bear Stearns Fined $250 Million for Securities Fraud The SEC's investigation found that from 1999 through September 2003, the firm provided technology, advice and deceptive devices that helped market timers and late traders evade the firm's own systems as well as those 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.
Investment Advisor November 2005 Melanie Waddell	The Playing Field: Round Two of Market Timing The SEC designed Rule 22c-2 to help mutual fund companies deal with market timing, but is it working?
Registered Rep. May 18, 2004 John Churchill	The Only Game in Town Survey shows a majority of investors still think mutual funds provide the best opportunity for a diversified portfolio, and many do not think the mutual fund improprieties are widespread across the industry.
Financial Advisor November 2003 Marla Brill	Advisors Divided Over Fund Scandals Some think they are isolated cases; others say their faith is being tested.
HBS Working Knowledge December 1, 2003	Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund? What is the answer to allegedly poor mutual fund governance practices? Can mutual fund directors, often responsible for dozens of funds in a fund family, be expected to exercise adequate oversight? Or must practices be corrected through added regulation? Or is the problem deeper than this?
CFO December 1, 2003 Linda Corman	Subject to Failure Recent scandals in the mutual-fund industry leave employers questioning the security of their plans.
HBS Working Knowledge December 8, 2003	Readers Respond: Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund? I am skeptical of the ability of fund managers to consistently beat the market... I believe that we have probably seen the beginning of the decline of the actively managed mutual fund... The mutual fund scandal will shift public trust towards index funds... etc.
Investment Advisor September 2007 Kara P. Stapleton	The Fair Value Pricing Gap Narrows 90% of U.S. asset managers are now using third-party pricing vendors to value foreign equities, and with the continued focus on valuation as a primary risk area, the gaps between large and small asset managers have narrowed.
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. August 8, 2005 Stan Luxenberg	CIBC and the Murky Waters of Mutual Fund Enforcement When the mutual fund scandals broke in September 2003, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and other politicians described the misdeeds in black-and-white terms. Now, two years into the legal actions, the saga has begun to appear murkier.
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.
The Motley Fool October 16, 2006 Dan Caplinger	Get More Than You Pay For Although open-end mutual funds make up the majority of all mutual funds available to investors, there's another type that acts much differently. Closed-end mutual funds, carry with it inefficiencies that astute investors can observe and use to their advantage.
Registered Rep. September 1, 2005 Stan Luxenberg	Gray Matter When the mutual fund scandals broke in September 2003, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and other politicians described the misdeeds in black-and-white terms. Now, two years into the legal actions, the matter is getting murkier.
HBS Working Knowledge December 15, 2003	Readers Respond: Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund? Business leaders and managers who can't recognize public and investor trust as a fundamental requirement of their business should be fired or barred for life... As soon as I can beat the market on my own, I'm out of mutual funds... etc.
Registered Rep. February 27, 2004 David A. Gaffen	Regulators, Industry Still Divided On Mutual Funds David Brown, bureau chief of investment protection in the New York Attorney General's office, said insurance companies who sold mutual funds wrapped in variable annuities, along with banks and law firms, may end up becoming targets of Eliot Spitzer's ire in coming months.
The Motley Fool July 6, 2005 Tom Taulli	Donaldson's Last Stand William Donaldson made his mark on the SEC -- up until his last day in office. Interestingly, even the U.S. Court of Appeals had concerns about the new mutual fund regulations.
Wall Street & Technology October 27, 2005 Eugene Gilerson	Mutual Funds Wake-Up Call The developing new market landscape has made it clear that mutual fund families will have to take decisive technological actions to keep their share of the market and sustain profitability.
Financial Advisor November 2011 Dan Moisand	Timing Is Nothing Just because you rebalance doesn't mean you're a market timer.
The Motley Fool January 10, 2007 Dan Caplinger	You Can Start Small You don't need a big bankroll to start investing. A wide range of options are available for investors of modest means, so that you can take what you've already saved and get started.
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.
Entrepreneur August 2004 Julie Monahan	Payback Time Settlement dollars from the SEC crackdown on mutual fund malfeasance will reach millions. But will you get your fair share?
CFO April 1, 2009 Leibs & Leone	The Blame Game Goes into Overtime The debate over the fairness and value of fair-value accounting intensified last month as lawmakers took accounting rule-setters to task for the role that fair value has allegedly played in the current economic crisis.
Wall Street & Technology February 4, 2005 Maria Santos	Compliance As the Securities and Exchange Commission steps up its efforts to regulate the industry and protect investors, financial institutions must take proactive measures to comply with current and possible future rules before the SEC takes action against them.
The Motley Fool September 27, 2005 Marko Djuranovic	Knowing When to Sell: Part 2 If you'd no longer want to buy that stock sitting in your portfolio, it's time to cut it loose. Just make sure you're getting your fair value.
The Motley Fool December 4, 2006 Dan Caplinger	10 Trillion Reasons to Invest Mutual funds keep raking in the money.
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CFO November 1, 2008 Robert Hertzberg	Can Companies Excel at Fair Value? Finance departments are using spreadsheets to tackle FAS 157, an approach few regard as optimum.
Investment Advisor November 2005 Ben Warwick	Build Your Own Frustrated with the other options, a growing number of financial advisors are starting their own mutual funds. Here's how to do it all yourself, or with a partner.
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The Motley Fool July 30, 2007 Amanda B. Kish	Old Mutual Spreads Its Wings It remains to be seen if Old Mutual's plans for growth will make this firm's funds worth owning, but one fund, Old Mutual Focused Fund, is already worth a look.
BusinessWeek June 26, 2006 Lauren Young	Mutual Funds: Back In Action Sure, the markets are jittery, but mutual funds are doing a better job for investors since the dot-com smashup. Long-term returns are up, fees are down, and, despite ETFs and hedge funds, money is rolling in.
Financial Advisor August 2004 Jeff Schlegel	Time To Reappraise Market Timing? Studies have found that individual investors have done very badly at moving in and out of the market, but some disciplined pros have a better record.
The Motley Fool June 3, 2005 Roy Lewis	Tax Rules for Selling Mutual Funds What do you do when it's time to sell?
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