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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.   |
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. |
Registered Rep.
March 27, 2006
Kristen French |
SEC Targets Investment Traps Set For Seniors The move against the "free lunch," as they are generally called, is part of a larger initiative launched to protect senior citizens from investment scams and unsuitable recommendations. |
BusinessWeek
July 2, 2008
Mara Der Hovanesian |
How to Enjoy a Scam-Free Retirement What to watch out for, what to consider, and where to go for guidance to make your nest egg go the distance. |
Investment Advisor
June 2010
Melanie Waddell |
FINRA's Ketchum Sees a Fiduciary Future for B/Ds Inappropriate sales of VAs to seniors at top of FINRA regulatory radar. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2006
Donald Jay Korn |
Daunted by Designations? As the number of expert designations heads toward triple digits, financial planners must decide which -- if any -- they really need. |
Investment Advisor
July 2010
Melanie Waddell |
A Whirlwind of SEC Activity Harmonization of advisor and B/D rules will move forward. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
April 15, 2015
Megan Leonhardt |
Regulators Concerned B/Ds Recommending Unsuitable Products to Seniors With seniors more dependent than ever on their investments for retirement, regulators have found a number of broker/dealers may have recommended unsuitable products and not adequately disclosed risks. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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.
December 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Of Two Minds An internecine argument at the FPA gets to the heart of one of the industry's more vexing problems: Should brokers be able to position themselves as financial planners? |
Financial Advisor
October 2010
Andrew Gluck |
Pulling The Switch Are state regulators ready to assume oversight of some 4,200 RIAs? |
Investment Advisor
August 2010
Melanie Waddell |
Will the States Be Able to Regulate Big RIAs? State regulators and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will meet soon to iron out the details of shifting nearly 4,000 advisors from federal to state supervision. |
Financial Advisor
September 2012
Jeff Schlegel |
Not Making The Grade Financial advisors aren't as fiduciary as they should be, a new survey finds. |
The Motley Fool
September 11, 2007
S.J. Caplan |
No Free Lunch Regulators are still clamping down on "free lunch" scams targeted at seniors. A recent investigation has revealed these sessions to be high-pressure sales pitches of misleading claims and unsuitable financial products, and even fraud. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
July 11, 2008
Robert Brokamp |
You Don't Deserve Retirement Here are three reasons why you don't deserve to retire, and how you can change that. |
The Motley Fool
December 14, 2010
Dayana Yochim |
How to Tell Your Advisor's Real Agenda This four-step background check will reveal whether you're about to get sound advice, or advice that just sounds good. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2008
Bob Veres |
The Plan This is an interim report on the market share erosion experienced by our Wirehouse ("Member") firms versus "fiduciary" and "consumer-focused" financial planners. |
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
November 1, 2006
Daniel B. Moisand |
Keep Standards High Financial planning is surprisingly under-regulated. The rules that do exist apply primarily to subset disciplines. As a result, all planners are regulated but no one really regulates planning. |
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. |
Financial Advisor
July 2011
Andrew Gluck |
Redefining Financial Advice The fate of professionalization and the FPA hang in the regulatory balance. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2009
Robert Pozen |
Think Twice Congress is seriously debating legislation that would significantly expand the coverage of the Investment Advisers Act, empower the SEC to make rules on advisor compensation and increase the likelihood of lawsuits against advisors. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
December 22, 2009
Selena Maranjian |
Who Owns Most of the Market? Remember that even though mutual funds hold huge chunks of companies, the real owners of the shares are us. If we don't assert our rights, no one's going to do it for us. |
On Wall Street
June 1, 2010
Mark Astarita |
Tilting the Litigation Landscape Against the Financial Industry Current reform proposals could radically alter the broker-client relationship. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2010
Brian Hamburger |
Regulation Season A look forward at the real effects of regulatory change - and they could be as unattractive as they are expensive. |
Financial Advisor
October 2007 |
Frontline News Congress Grills "Senior" Advisor Designations... Live Long And Prosper... Fidelity Planning Income Annuity... Mansueto To Receive Award... Fiduciary Network Buys Brightworth Stake... etc. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2006
Elizabeth O'Brien |
Bookshelf The RIA's Compliance Handbook by Elayne Robertson Demby is a comprehensive guide for registered investment advisors. Readers can earn 20 hours worth of CFP continuing education credits by passing a 35-question exam located in the back of the book. |
Financial Advisor
August 2010
Roy Diliberto |
An Elusive Profession Work still needs to be done so that clients, regulators and the media view and understand us for what we -- financial planners -- are. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
January 3, 2008
Christina Mucciolo |
SEC's RAND Study Released The SEC release the results of the RAND study, which examined how broker/dealers and investment advisors market products and services to investors, and how investors understand the differences between investment advisors and broker/dealers. |
The Motley Fool
June 4, 2007
Chuck Saletta |
Why You Must Invest Now To have a reasonable shot at a golden retirement, you must get started now. The easiest way to get started is with a low-cost, total-market index fund like the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index. |
Investment Advisor
November 2007
Elizabeth D. Festa |
Institutional Approach for Individuals As a senior financial advisor, Leon James applies the quantitative analysis and strategic asset allocation used with his institutional clients to individuals who are retiring. |
The Motley Fool
May 11, 2011
Selena Maranjian |
Sneak a Peek at Your Broker's Record Find out whether your broker has been in trouble. |
Financial Advisor
June 2009
Sherri Scordo |
Frontline News A consortium of leading financial advisory trade organizations is calling for a professional standards-setting oversight board to establish financial planning standards for the industry. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2013
Kenneth Corbin |
SEC Registration Deadline Looms As annual registration nears, compliance experts warn RIAs to be cautious about their numbers. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
July 30, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
FINRA Sticks as SEC Approves Regulator Consolidation After some minor bumps along the way, the NASD and NYSE merger is official. |
Investment Advisor
November 2007 |
News & Products Second wave of products help address the retirement income conundrum... Fidelity Investments has unveiled a group of retirement income products... etc. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2008
Bob Veres |
The Big Regulatory Fix If the same few companies are behind virtually every major financial scandal and meltdown, why are the regulators talking about tightening up on all financial advisors? |
Investment Advisor
February 2008
Angela Herbers |
Barring the Door How to stop training your (future) competition. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
February 19, 2010
Christina Mucciolo |
FINRA Seeks to Expand BrokerCheck, Make Some Records Permanent The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority announced it is seeking the SEC's approval to expand the amount of information made public on current and former brokers' permanent records in its free online CRD database, BrokerCheck. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2004
Allen Plummer |
Over the Top There's one big problem with being on top, and the organization that administers the Certified Financial Planner designation is in the process of learning all about it. |
