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Investment Advisor October 2008 |
News & Products, October 2008 The SEC announces an enforcement action against LPL Financial Corp... ING Advisors Network announced a reorganization... Ameriprise Financial has signed an agreement to acquire H&R Block Financial Advisors... etc. |
InternetNews March 17, 2010 |
Russian Hackers Manipulated Stock Prices: SEC A sophisticated plan of password theft and stock manipulation targeted more than 30 public companies. |
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. May 10, 2007 Kristen French |
SEC Impostors on the Loose The SEC issued an alert to securities industry firms, warning them to keep an eye out for impostors -- individuals pretending to work for the SEC. |
Financial Planning January 5, 2008 Max Mejiborsky |
Compliance A string of recent administrative proceedings have revealed that recidivism continues to plague the investment advisor community, despite an increased emphasis on compliance and the SEC's Compliance Programs Rule. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2007 Jane Worthington |
Compliance Financial planners and advisors, advertise wisely. SEC examiners regularly find deficiencies in advertisements touting an advisor's performance returns. They recommend routinely using compliance procedures. |
Wall Street & Technology November 17, 2003 Jim Middlemiss |
Under Attack Forget about locking the windows and the doors, financial-services firms now have far more to fear from worms, horses and bugs. |
On Wall Street April 1, 2013 Kenneth Corbin |
SEC Zeros In on Potential Conflicts of Interest The regulator's staff will investigate nondisclosures, misrepresentations, and more. |
Registered Rep. May 24, 2006 Kristen French |
Broker Sanctioned for Violation of Patriot Act After nearly a year and a half since the law's passage and after over a dozen brokerage firm audits, the SEC took its first enforcement action against a broker/dealer. Yet, in so doing, the SEC noted that broker/dealers are generally doing a very good job of complying. |
Registered Rep. July 14, 2010 Halah Touryalai |
LPL Acquires Retirement Broker/Dealer LPL continues its growth streak with the acquisition of assets from National Retirement Partners, a California based broker/dealer. |
CFO June 1, 2009 Reason & Stuart |
Crackdown Alert After a GAO report documents a slowdown in the SEC's case generation and penalty volume under former chairman Christopher Cox, the regulator's new leaders talk tough. |
Registered Rep. June 7, 2010 Halah Touryalai |
LPL To Go Public. At What Valuation? It's the moment LPL Financial (and much of the broker/dealer world) has been anticipating for at least the last five years. The independent channel's largest b/d filed forms S-1 with the SEC on Friday, signifying its intent to float shares to the public. |
Registered Rep. November 20, 2003 John Churchill |
LPL Financial Awaits Regulatory Enforcement on Breakpoints Enforcement actions are pending as a consequence of certain clients not receiving appropriate commission discounts, otherwise known as "breakpoints," on Class A mutual fund purchases. LPL is one of roughly 2,000 firms conducting internal examinations into breakpoints. |
Financial Advisor January 2004 Jay Gould |
Washed Up On The Banks Of Denial The SEC has changed its policies regarding anti-fraud consent injunctions. How should investment advisors react? |
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. November 18, 2010 Jerry Gleeson |
LPL IPO Clicks with Investors CNBC star Jim Cramer may not have liked the valuation of the LPL Investment Holdings IPO, but investors sure did. |
Registered Rep. February 7, 2011 Jerry Gleeson |
LPL Financial Posts Growth in Assets, Advisors LPL Investment Holdings reported higher revenue and adjusted profit numbers for the fourth quarter, as the acquisition of an advisor network in 2010 boosted assets and advisors at the firm. |
Investment Advisor April 2007 James J. Green |
Watch LPL Grow The largest independent broker/dealer acquires three Pacific Life Insurance Co. broker/dealers. |
Investment Advisor June 1, 2011 Thomas D. Giachetti |
From Deadlines to Lifelines The SEC extension of registration deadlines provides a potential grace period for stressed out advisors. |
Registered Rep. February 8, 2011 Jerry Gleeson |
LPL's Casady Sees Better Advisor Growth In `11 Though the firm managed to rack up strong revenue and profit growth last quarter and in fiscal 2010, it did not meet the annual recruiting target of 400 net new advisors that Casady had set. |
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 Planning November 1, 2009 Paul Menchaca |
LPL: "We've Arrived" Twenty years after the San Diego-based company was formed through the merger of Linsco and Private Ledger, LPL appears to have lapped its rivals, leaving nothing in its rearview mirror. |
InternetNews July 18, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
FBI: Online Crime Losses Down, Attacks Up A new study from the FBI and the Computer Security Institute cites a dramatic drop in average losses from cybercrime, but a rise in web site incidents and unauthorized access incidents. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2007 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Clearly, Competition LPL's clearing deal with AXA Advisors prompts questions about recruitment among independent broker-dealers. |
Registered Rep. March 10, 2010 Jerry Gleeson |
New RIA Custody Rules In Force Friday New rules aimed at preventing registered investment advisors from pulling off ponzi schemes are now in effect. |
Registered Rep. July 27, 2010 Halah Touryalai |
Overtime Suits Resurface, This Time for Independent Reps On July 22, Mark Thierman, a labor lawyer in Reno, Nevada, filed a complaint against LPL Financial for violating New York State overtime laws by not paying its reps overtime wages. |
Registered Rep. April 25, 2011 Kristen French |
LPL Reports First Quarter Income Up 92 Percent LPL Financial reported net income of $49 million, or 43 cents a share for the first quarter of 2011, a 92 percent jump from the first quarter of 2010. |
CFO February 1, 2006 Alix Nyberg Stuart |
Penalty Box The SEC is handing out bigger and bigger fines for misdeeds. But is this the right approach? |
The Motley Fool November 14, 2011 John Reeves |
Wrist Slaps All Around at the SEC The SEC disciplines its employees who were involved in the Madoff case. |
Registered Rep. December 31, 2010 Diana Britton |
LPL to Capitalize on Growth in Independence; Long-term Challenges Remain LPL's growth will also hinge on overall market sentiment and retail investors' appetite for equities, according to Brad Hintz, senior analyst at BernsteinResearch. |
Investment Advisor July 2010 Melanie Waddell |
A Whirlwind of SEC Activity Harmonization of advisor and B/D rules will move forward. |
Registered Rep. May 14, 2015 Megan Leonhardt |
LPL Incentivizes Hybrid RIAs to Bring Assets Over LPL Financial is offering its hybrid advisors up to $100,000 to shift their assets held elsewhere to LPL's advisory platforms, according to an internal communication sent to advisors Wednesday. |
InternetNews May 17, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
Lucent Settles SEC Complaint The company looks to eliminate distractions in an improving climate for network equipment. |
Investment Advisor September 2009 |
Broker/Dealer News Actions by the SEC and FINRA |
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. |
Investment Advisor April 1, 2011 Thomas D. Giachetti |
Dodd-Frank: An Overview Of Pending Changes For Investment Advisors Dodd-Frank deadlines are fast approaching. Are you ready? |
Investment Advisor March 2006 Melanie Waddell |
Piling On Keeping up with compliance chores will continue to occupy a substantial portion of advisors' time, as industry officials and observers are steadfast in their belief that regulatory scrutiny by the SEC and NASD isn't going away. |
Financial Advisor October 2004 Evan Simonoff |
Editor's Note Back in July when the Financial Planning Association filed a lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission, many advisors could be forgiven for wondering if the FPA was losing its grip on reality. |
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. |
Investment Advisor March 2010 James J. Green |
RIA Growth at LPL The biggest independent broker/dealer is growing rapidly in another way: as a custodian for advisors that use LPL Financial as the custodian for their RIA activities. |
Registered Rep. February 7, 2012 Diana Britton |
LPL Posts Record Revenue For Year, Despite Volatility While other firms suffered in the fourth quarter on slow client activity, LPL Financial announced earnings today of $39.4 million for the quarter, up $156 million from a net loss of $116.6 million in the fourth quarter 2010. |
Investment Advisor August 2008 |
B/D News & Products Pali Capital, Inc. announced that Joseph Schenk has joined the firm as COO... Fidelity Investments named Daniel Petrozzo as CIO... LPL Financial Corporation has appointed Brad Cornell as senior VP of sponsor relations... etc. |
Financial Advisor February 2008 |
Advisor Emporium LPL And Fiduciary360 Partner For Training... Pershing Offers New Tool... Biondo Joins Investors Capital Advisory... IAS Launches Software Package... Thornburg Introduces New Fund... Vanguard Adds Funds... |
Investment Advisor March 1, 2011 Melanie Waddell |
SEC Fiduciary Rule May Hit by Summer Despite the advisory industry's hopes that the Securities and Exchange Commission would get a quick start on writing a rule to put brokers under the same fiduciary standard as advisors, it looks as though a rulemaking could come by summer. |
Financial Advisor November 2011 Evan Simonoff |
What Gives At The SEC? For several decades, the Securities and Exchange Commission has contended that it does not have sufficient resources to examine and inspect RIAs. Consequently, many have concluded that Finra is the default option for all RIA regulation. |
Registered Rep. June 29, 2010 Halah Touryalai |
The New Sheriffs In Town The SEC examines about 9 percent of the 11,000 or so advisory firms under its jurisdiction annually. All of that is about to change with a little help from regulators at the state level. |
Registered Rep. October 26, 2010 Jerry Gleeson |
Net Assets Rise at LPL, TD Ameritrade Trading revenue (excluding asset-based fees and advisory assets), however, was less impressive, with LPL posting modest gains and TDA seeing big declines. (Not surprising, given the overall market conditions.) |
Investment Advisor August 2009 Melanie Waddell |
Congress Presses Schapiro to Protect Investors While members of Congress praised SEC Chairman Schapiro for acting quickly to institute changes at the agency, lawmakers said more work needs to be done to protect investors. |
Registered Rep. April 26, 2007 John Churchill |
To Appeal or Not to Appeal? SEC Feels Heat Over Pro-FPA Court Ruling The SEC is feeling lobbyist pressure from both sides as it prepares to either appeal or let stand the ruling by a Federal Court of Appeals that vacated the "Merrill Lynch" rule. |
Investment Advisor February 2009 Melanie Waddell |
Is Mary What the SEC Needs? The alternative to FINRA overseeing advisors, and what advisors would definitely prefer, is a self-regulatory organization. |