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Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 Christopher O'Leary	A Crusade Against Indies? Regardless of whether going independent means a more regulatory scrutiny or not, advisors thinking of going out on their own need to understand just how much work such a move will entail in terms of keeping up with the ever-changing world of regulations.
Financial Advisor July 2006 Mark Goldberg	Seat Belt Or Life Raft? Arbitration can be a traumatizing experience for financial advisors. In most instances, there is a genuine misunderstanding. Are we willing to ask ourselves if we did a good job communicating?
Financial Planning June 1, 2005 Juliette Fairley	FP50: Angst Over Compliance As financial advisory firms struggle to manage a raft of new regulations, they are banding together to rein in the rule-makers.
Financial Advisor June 2005 Raymond Fazzi	Regulatory Challenges Top Broker-Dealer Agenda Rarely has the potential of the financial advisory business, with a huge demographic wave of baby boomers approaching retirement, looked brighter. But never has the regulatory climate been more challenging.
Financial Advisor April 2004 Tracey Longo	Wanted: Real Disclosure Rules on brokers compensation disclosure are changing---but slowly.
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.
Financial Planning September 1, 2008 Blaine Aikin	New Disclosure Regimen Planners are facing considerable competition from brokers in the arena of retirement plans, and the reality that brokers typically don't work as fiduciaries is a thorn in planners' sides.
Financial Advisor June 2004 Tracey Longo	Compliance Overload A white-hot regulatory agenda is bedeviling independent broker-dealers in the U.S.
Financial Planning April 1, 2006 Laurie Lennox	Know Your Team To be successful in the high-net-worth market, financial advisers must know their limitations and establish alliances with a network of qualified professionals to address client needs outside the expertise or abilities of the "quarterback."
Investment Advisor March 1, 2011 Bob Clark	A Study in Flexibility SEC's Study on Investment Advisors and Broker-Dealers leaves too much wiggle room to declare victory yet.
Financial Planning July 1, 2005 James A. Barnash	Why We're Suing The FPA president explains the lawsuit over the SEC's broker-dealer rule that exempted certain broker-dealers from disclosure standards that apply to investment advisers and most financial planners.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2004 Anne Field	Gunning for College As more investors put their faith in 529 plans, the stakes rise for those who are supposed to be protecting them, and agencies like the NASD and the SEC have jumped into the fray with gusto.
CFO April 1, 2004 Ronald Fink	Playing Favorites Why Alan Greenspan's Fed lets banks off easy on corporate fraud.
Investment Advisor March 1, 2011 Kathleen Mcbride	SEC and the Fiduciary Study: The Process Why the fiduciary standard became such a hot topic for regulators
Financial Planning November 1, 2009 Donald B. Trone	Restoring Trust Fiduciary responsibility is based on trust, whether it is formally and legally defined or simply conveyed by the level of confidence one party has in another.
Investment Advisor November 2006 Thomas D. Giachetti	Defining Fiduciary What is a financial advisor's true fiduciary duty?
Financial Planning June 1, 2005 Suzanne McGee	The New Due Diligence As AIG takes its turn in the scandal spotlight, financial planners must gauge the real risk behind the headlines.
Financial Planning August 1, 2009 Bob Veres	A Swiftly Tilting Planet How will brokers and financial advisors fare in the government's battle to regulate the securities industry?
Registered Rep. April 1, 2005 Luxenberg & French	A Pile of Reasons Regulators and broker/dealer management have gone overboard with mutual fund disclosure. Take the case of the B-share class of mutual funds.
Registered Rep. September 1, 2004 Namita Devidayal	A Fitting Problem Having found the securities industry severely wanting in its policing of research conflicts, market-timing and fee disclosures, the regulators are looking to see if similar abuses exist in the insurance industry.
Wall Street & Technology January 6, 2006 Ivy Schmerken	Everything's Coming Up Hybrid Will a joint NYSE - NASD regulator result in the $100 million-a-year savings that the NASD is proposing in the hybrid regulation of dual member firms?
Financial Planning June 1, 2006	FP50: On the Cutting Edge Four broker-dealers have found success by creating their own unique business models.
Registered Rep. August 1, 2004 Will Leitch	The Reformation When the scandal craze that has gripped the securities industry first began two years ago, few in the industry recognized how deep it might go.
Financial Planning September 1, 2006 David Spinar	Even the Playing Field Congress needs to standardize the regulations for investment advisors and broker-dealers.
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.
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.
Financial Advisor March 2011 Jeff Schlegel	Is Uniformity Possible? Broker-dealers expect some changes if a new fiduciary standard is adopted.
Investment Advisor October 2010 Bob Clark	The Empire Steps Up The Financial Planning Coalition's letter on the Securities and Exchange Commission's "Study Regarding Obligations of Brokers, Dealers and Investment Advisers" will knock your socks off.
Financial Planning September 1, 2005 Suzanne McGee	Scandal! Corporate governance experts agree that the past two decades have been a particularly fertile period for scandals, generating an abundance of candidates for inclusion in a new series of "Wall Street Most Wanted" playing cards. What motivates the cheaters -- greed, fear or ego?
Investment Advisor August 2006 Thomas D. Giachett	Expert's Corner: A Process, Not a Destination With the advent of SEC Rule 206(4) 7, which requires SEC-registered investment advisors to implement and maintain policies and procedures appropriate for their investment advisory business, it is more critical than ever for all RIAs to recognize that compliance is an ongoing process.
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.
Financial Planning February 1, 2005	News Digest Sports Consortium Launched... ERISA Training Online... Morningstar IPO Still Coming... Online Seminar Kit Available From Fidelity... etc.
Registered Rep. January 23, 2011 Kristen French	SEC Recommends Strict Fiduciary Standard For Broker/Dealers An SEC study released over the weekend could represent a major push towards a more uniform regulatory framework for the fragmented wealth management business.
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?
Financial Planning October 1, 2010 Katherine Reynolds Lewis	Study Harder New Dodd-Frank legislation kick-started two major initiatives that could transform the way financial advice is regulated and for the first time subject financial planning to explicit regulatory oversight.
Registered Rep. May 14, 2007 Kevin Burke	NASD Chair Sees Better Oversight of New Products Mary Shapiro told mutual fund executives she sees better regulation of investment products as a result of a merged NYSE and NASD. While this may be better news for investors, purveyors of mutual funds may find themselves in the crosshairs.
Registered Rep. September 13, 2011 Kristen French	Long Legislative Fight Kicks Off with House Hearing On SRO, Fiduciary Standard Congressman Scott Garrett opened Tuesday's House Financial Services Committee hearing on an SRO for investment advisers and a fiduciary standard for broker/dealers with a threat.
Investment Advisor July 2007	Birth of a Profession Does history repeat itself? A recounting of the RIA profession's origins by Schwab provides some contemporary food for thought.
Financial Advisor March 2008 David Lawrence	A Higher Standard It is incumbent on all financial advisors to acknowledge their potential role as a fiduciary and act accordingly where and when applicable. So, that leads to a question of just what a fiduciary does during a typical day.
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.
Financial Planning March 1, 2005 Abigail LaCroix	News Digest Amex Suffers Separation Anxiety... AIG Advisor Group Consolidates and Re-brands... Revenue Sharing Boosts Fund Sales... AARP Pans Personal Retirement Accounts... Aligning Muni Rules with NASD Guidelines... etc.
U.S. Banker April 2010 Steve Garmhausen	A New Standard for Bank Brokers? A bill mandating that brokerages adhere to a fiduciary standard would mean more disclosures, more work for bank compliance departments and more training.
Wall Street & Technology March 1, 2004	Getting Management on Board With Compliance Compliance and litigation readiness have blasted up the priority list of top management. Leading financial institutions have appointed general counsel into top management roles. Boards of directors are reviewing and approving technology solutions.
Registered Rep. August 30, 2011 Kristen French	House Plans Hearing on SRO for Advisors for Sept. 13 The subcommittee is expected to review who should be responsible for examining investment advisers.
Financial Advisor October 2009 Kristina Fausti	A Higher Standard It appears that the SEC will remain the primary federal regulator of investment advisors, at least for now.
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.
Investment Advisor August 2005 Thomas D. Giachetti	Come Right In Here are some issues pertaining to an advisor's compliance-readiness, including a list of some of the more substantive issues that are currently the focus of SEC examiners.
Registered Rep. April 7, 2005 Kristen French	NASD Advocates More Disclosure, Less Paper Broker/dealers and their reps may get a big break on point-of-sale disclosure if the Securities and Exchange Commission heeds recent NASD advice.
Financial Planning March 1, 2008 Bob Veres	Deconstructing Rand A report written by the Rand Corp. will help the SEC's staff decide who should and should not be registered as an registered investment advisor, and to determine whether investors understand the differences between and relationships among broker-dealers and investment advisors.
Global Services November 29, 2007	The Future of Regulation Whether offshore or onshore, the confluence of increased regulations and increased outsourcing will result in increasingly intense scrutiny by regulators of outsourcing relationships.