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Registered Rep. May 1, 2008	Roids: Not Just For Baseball Bear Stearns attempted to impose a temporary restraining order on departed broker Doug Sharon. Sharon left for Morgan Stanley on March 17 -- the day after J.P. Morgan made a deal to buy the embattled Bear Stearns. Bear's TRO was rejected by a Massachusetts court.
Registered Rep. June 1, 2008 Mindy Diamond	Flexing Your Trigger Finger If there is any lesson for advisors in the recent Bear Stearns implosion, it might be this: In times of market crisis it can't hurt to have an exit strategy planned. Many clients are now asking advisors what their exit strategy is.
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Investment Advisor January 2008 Kathleen M. McBride	Clearly Profitable It's an evolution revolution at the big clearing firms.
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Registered Rep. March 1, 2005 Mindy Diamond	Don't Be Dazzled by Prestige Names But just as Harvard is not the best place for every high school valedictorian, private client groups at Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan are not always the best places for an advisor focused on ultra-high-net-worth clients.
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Registered Rep. April 4, 2008 Halah Touryalai	Former Bear Broker Gets Okay From Judge A Bear Stearns broker is free to take his clients with him to his new digs at Morgan Stanley, a Massachusetts judge ruled today.
Investment Advisor May 2008 Kathleen M. McBride	What Lurks Beneath There are many registered independent advisors and broker/dealers for whom the Bear Stearns debacle is much more than an academic exercise.
Registered Rep. May 19, 2008	Dimon Kicks It Old Skool JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has personally embarked on a letter-writing campaign to find employment for the "5,000-plus Bear employees who will not have a job after the takeover closes next month."
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Investment Advisor June 2008 Kathleen M. McBride	Independents' Optimism Broker/dealer advisory board members say things are looking up in the industry.
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Investment Advisor September 2006 Robert F. Keane	The Investment Center If keeping your representatives satisfied is the name of the game for broker/dealers, then it's no surprise that Ralph DeVito and The Investment Center are the winning team in Division II this year.
Registered Rep. November 1, 2002 David A. Geracioti	Looking for Work -- On the QT Are you a broker looking for a job, but afraid you'll be found out? A new Web site, privateclientpro.net, provides a fast, anonymous and comprehensive listing of opportunities.
OCC Bulletin September 5, 2002	Investment Portfolio Credit Risks: Safekeeping Arrangements This guidance alerts banks to the potentially significant credit risks they incur when safekeeping investment portfolio assets with third parties, such as brokers, broker/dealer firms and banks.
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Registered Rep. November 1, 2005 Kristen French	Bonus Bait Morgan Stanley is planning to offer bonuses to brokers who expand their production in 2006.
Investment Advisor September 2009 James J. Green	How the Representatives Voted The year 2009 marked the 19th time that Investment Advisor asked its readers who are representatives of independent broker/dealers to rank their own B/Ds on 14 discrete categories, along with an overall rating.
Investment Advisor May 2007	The Original SEC Rule The Security and Exchange Commission's original decision on the broker/dealer exemption rule exempting brokers from regulation as an investment advisor even when they were being paid fees for investment advice.
Wall Street & Technology August 22, 2006 Larry Tabb	Switching a Back-Office Relationship Is Very Hard For financial firms, while the front office is eminently more glamorous and lucrative, switching front-office providers is easy. Switching a clearing, custody or depository relationship, however, is very hard.
Registered Rep. November 21, 2002 Rick Weinberg	Morgan Stanley Firing 950 Brokers Morgan Stanley is firing 950 brokers, according to the various sources.
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Registered Rep. October 1, 2002 Rick Weinberg	Morgan Stanley Boosts Pay for Fee Business Morgan Stanley unveiled a new compensation plan for brokers that rewards fee-based business and penalizes transactional business.
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Registered Rep. January 1, 2005 Mindy Diamond	A Clean Escape, With an Accomplice Brokers tempted to leap at a lucrative job at another firm are often held back by inertia, but in increasing numbers they are finding the powerful force they need to get moving: hungry branch managers.
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Registered Rep. December 1, 2005 Kristen French	Morgan Stanley: Tomorrow Is Another Day In this survey, the management upheaval and culling of broker ranks shows in the grades Morgan brokers give their firm.
Investment Advisor June 2009 Elizabeth D. Festa	When Less Is More It appears that the best broker/dealers limit the number of investment vehicles on their approved list.
Registered Rep. April 8, 2004 Joan Warner	Trouble In The House That Purcell Built? After suffering through a cruel bear market, Morgan Stanley has come under regulatory scrutiny and legal fire for practices in several key businesses in the past two years, including mutual fund sales.
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