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Registered Rep. April 1, 2007	When Achievement is Bull State regulators are moving to ban certain designations from marketing materials to better protect seniors. Financial advisors using senior designations to con seniors are often caught too late.
Registered Rep. May 17, 2007 Halah Touryalai	Massachusetts Enforces Rules On Use of Senior Designations The state's Securities Division adopted the nation's first regulation requiring advisors to advertise only accredited credentials, or credentials that can clearly demonstrate that they call for meaningful expertise, when offering financial advice to elderly clients.
Financial Planning December 1, 2006 Jane Worthington	Compliance Tips As a financial services professional, you should welcome questions from seniors and be prepared to answer them, no matter how basic.
Financial Planning February 1, 2008 Marianne Czernin	Compliance In effect now are stricter requirements to protect investors age 65 and over. Advisors, read on to see which areas you need to be vigilant in.
Financial Planning August 1, 2008 Donald Jay Korn	Labels Under Fire Regulators are making it clear that advisors who use the word "senior" or various synonyms to transact business unethically are squarely in their sights.
Investment Advisor December 2006 Kara Stapleton	Briefs The Financial Planning Association endorsed a proposed rule... The CFP Board voted to approve changes to its governance policy...
Financial Advisor March 2012 Mike Byrnes	Massachusetts Addresses Social Media Regulation Results from a July 2011 survey by the Massachusetts Securities Division found a significant growth trend in advisors using social media, but also found compliance deficiencies in existing social media regulations.
BusinessWeek February 26, 2007 Lauren Young	Financial Pedigrees--Or Blarney? A guide to decoding the dizzying array of acronyms on your financial adviser's business card.
Investment Advisor October 2007 Melanie Waddell	Helping the Most Vulnerable Retirees Lawmakers, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and state regulators are bent on making sure advisors with designations touting expertise when it comes to helping seniors, the most vulnerable retirees, are closely scrutinized.
Registered Rep. August 7, 2007 Kristen French	Senior Fraud Crackdown Continues The second annual "Seniors Summit" is meant to examine ways in which regulators and other groups can help prevent the overwhelming amount of senior fraud being committed in the securities industry.
Investment Advisor February 2010 Marlene Y. Satter	Broker/Dealer Briefing: New Leader for FSI A short conversation with Mari Buechner, CCO and CEO of Coordinated Capital Securities, and the new chair of the Financial Services Institute.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2015 Diana Britton	Old-Fashioned Exams Financial advisor exams vary in their requirements, but for any individual looking to work in a brokerage firm or sell investments, the Series 7 exam is the mandatory gateway.
Registered Rep. August 19, 2009 Christina Mucciolo	Haggling Over The F Word Continues Regulators, consumer advocates and politicians continue to hammer out what it might mean for Series 65 investment advisors and series 7 registered reps to adhere to the new fiduciary standard.
Financial Advisor October 2008 Tracey Longo	Unwanted Scrutiny One of the quickest ways to get regulators' attention these days is to single out retirees and seniors in your advisory firm's marketing initiatives.
On Wall Street November 1, 2012	Five Questions with Don Blandin The president and CEO of Investor Protection Trust discusses issues facing seniors and the special problems for which advisors should watch, including protecting them against fraud.
Financial Planning March 1, 2008 Stacy Schultz	5 Questions with Melaine Kimmel Five questions about Kaplan Financial, which provides education and compliance solutions for financial professionals, advisors, agents, registered reps, and their supervisors.
Investment Advisor June 2006 Melanie Waddell	Retirement Planning: News & Products Baby boomers and seniors -- don't confuse the two... SEC Chairman Christopher Cox is on his own crusade to fight senior fraud... John Hancock introduced a new survivorship universal life insurance policy... etc.
Financial Planning April 1, 2010 Brian Hamburger	Full Disclosure Protecting client privacy is one of the most important responsibilities of any financial advisor. And it's about to become one of the most time-consuming and highly regulated aspects of the business as well.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2004 Will Leitch	SOS It is an ominous time for small broker/dealers, for everyone from the chairman to the local rep. As always, the best way through the uncertainty is ingenuity.
Registered Rep. October 23, 2006 John Churchill	Opulence (and a Wee Bit of Strife) at FPA Confab in Nashville Education and networking were on order at the recent annual Financial Planning Association conference.
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Registered Rep. May 1, 2006 Barry Rehfeld	Alphabet Soup There are ways for reps to become authentic financial advisors, like the courses offered by continuing education groups and it seems that many advisors are, in fact, taking them. With designations proliferating like ragweed, they have come under fire from a number of public officials lately.
Registered Rep. February 1, 2006 Kristen French	Both Sides Now Brokers who hold dual licenses -- both the Series 7 and Series 65 licenses -- will have to take fiduciary responsibility on some accounts. But they can also sell investments, after they make it crystal clear that they're doing so.
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Registered Rep. January 1, 2003 David A. Gaffen	Wachovia Software Emphasizes Goals Wachovia Securities wants advisors to know where their clients want to be, not just where they are now. The firm plans early this year to unveil a new software package for its advisors to help clients figure out their retirement goals and the appropriate investments to get them there.
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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.
Registered Rep. September 9, 2011 Diana Britton	FSI: Calif. Sets Good Precedent With Independent Contractor Bill Considered a win for independent broker/dealers and their advisors, the California state Senate passed a bill Thursday night that tightens rules governing independent contractor status but omits onerous paperwork requirements.
Registered Rep. July 8, 2011 Jodie Papike	What To Do When You Smell a Storm Coming At Your B/d New technology and today's 24-hour media cycle have put advisors in a much better position to sniff out trouble at their broker/dealer.
The Motley Fool March 3, 2004	Alphabet Soup of Advisors What are all those fancy acronyms embossed on financial advisors' letterheads? While these designations don't ensure that the person does good work, they do say the person has had some training and experience, and perhaps a lot of it.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2008 John Churchill	Fix Advisor Laws! Laws should reflect the fact that the differences between registered reps and registered investment advisors have largely evaporated.
Registered Rep. August 10, 2011 Diana Britton	LPL Conference Opens with New Initiatives, Support for Advisors LPL Financial kicked off its annual conference in Chicago on Monday by ringing the opening bell of the NASDAQ stock exchange and announcing some new initiatives aimed at supporting advisors.
Financial Advisor March 2012	So You Think You're A Financial Planner? A recent study from industry research firm Cerulli Associates looked at advisors across all channels and compared how they describe themselves with how they actually do business.
Registered Rep. June 1, 2012 Diana Britton	Breaking Out: A New Era in Insurance Insurance firms constantly go through cycles of acquisition and sale when it comes to their broker/dealer subsidiaries. But the current sell cycle is different, and it may shake up how the business works.
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Registered Rep. April 28, 2015 David Armstrong	Editor's Letter: May 2015 It's worth looking at the so-far relatively muted response of the industry to the Department of Labor's second go around in proposing new fiduciary regulations for financial advisors to retirement accounts.
Registered Rep. June 27, 2011 Diana Britton	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly It seems like every week, another independent broker/dealer goes under or up for sale because of a bad private placement or other problematic alternative investments. All that turmoil has left a pool of advisors out in the cold, looking for new firms to call home.
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Registered Rep. January 27, 2006 Halah Touryalai	Indie Broker Trade Group Sets 2006 Agenda at San Diego Conference At its second annual conference, the Financial Services Institute spinoff organization announced more plans to represent the special interests of indie b/ds with regulators, including the launch of FSI PAC, a Washington lobbying unit.
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