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Investment Advisor
September 2008
Melanie Waddell |
Turf Wars A conversation with former SEC Commissioner Roel Campos about the Treasury's Blueprint for financial services reform.   |
Salon.com
June 26, 2002
Damien Cave |
Foxes guarding the chicken coop President Bush's nominees to the agency that should have regulated Enron's derivatives trading instead helped write the rules that let the company do whatever it wanted in the first place. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Oh, the Games Enron Played The Enron story is not simply a case of a lone company that played with fire and got burned. Enron was able to take enormous risks while keeping shareholders in the dark because it could exploit accounting loopholes for subsidiaries that are available to most publicly traded companies. |
Salon.com
February 5, 2002
Damien Cave |
Risky business How did Enron break into the elite Wall Street world of credit derivatives? |
The Motley Fool
December 26, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
The SEC's Gift to You Securities regulation helps guard investors against fraud. |
BusinessWeek
July 26, 2004
Paula Dwyer |
The SEC To Top Execs: Read The Fine Print The Ken Lay criminal indictment has overshadowed the parallel SEC civil lawsuit. But corporate insiders and their attorneys would be wise to give the SEC complaint a close read. |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2009
Smith & Bleeker |
Who's More to Blame: Congress or the SEC? March Stock Madness -- Second Round: Let's bullet-point some of the failures of both Congress and the SEC to determine which is more to blame for the current crisis. |
CFO
April 1, 2004
Ronald Fink |
Playing Favorites Why Alan Greenspan's Fed lets banks off easy on corporate fraud. |
Investment Advisor
May 2010
David Tittsworth |
What a Reinvigorated SEC Will Mean for You The first in a series of occasional commentaries by the executive director of the Investment Adviser Association. |
Investment Advisor
August 2008
Melanie Waddell |
Wheels of Blueprint In Motion The SEC and the Federal Reserve Board's recent Memorandum of Understanding marks a first step; but Congress says more stringent financial services regulations are warranted. |
Finance & Development
September 2009
Randall Dodd |
Overhauling the System The United States is proposing the most radical reform of financial regulation since the New Deal. |
Investment Advisor
July 2008
Melanie Waddell |
SEC Chairmen of Yore Speak Six former SEC chairmen pointed to quite a few regulatory challenges that loom large -- namely globalization of the world markets, the burgeoning market for complex synthetic securities, and the continued growth of hedge funds. |
U.S. Banker
November 2008
Michael Sisk |
In Pursuit of Sustainable Capitalism The case for greater regulatory CDS oversight appears to be finding traction. |
Entrepreneur
April 2002
Jennifer Pellet |
Tough Enough Despite speculations of a kinder SEC, Harvey Pitt is cracking down on business... |
CFO
May 1, 2008
David M. Katz |
A New Top Cop for Corporate Finance? Treasury Secretary Paulson mulls over an idea for a new and improved replacement for the SEC. |
BusinessWeek
October 13, 2003
Robert Kuttner |
The Big Board: Crying Out for Regulation The Grasso pay debacle means the SEC should supervise the NYSE. |
Salon.com
January 28, 2002
Michael Drummond |
Class-action warrior When corporations run amok and accountants are shredding documents, who ya gonna call? Try lawyer Bill Lerach... |
The Motley Fool
July 6, 2004
Tom Taulli |
Grim Reaper Visits EasyLink By all appearances, EasyLink is being hit for a minor offense. Not according to the SEC. |
Registered Rep.
March 10, 2011
Kristen French |
SEC Says Bigger Budget Is Supported By BCG Report In testimony before Congress Thursday, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro made a case for an increase in the agency's funding to $1.407 billion for 2012. |
Wall Street & Technology
September 21, 2004
Beth Bacheldor |
Looking for Trouble Under new IT leadership, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is upgrading technology to become a better watchdog and maintain market confidence. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2002
John S. McClenahen |
Goodbye To GAAP? Probably not. But Enron's collapse makes changes in financial regulation likely... |
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. |
The Motley Fool
April 26, 2006
Rich Duprey |
Investing in Presto's Dim Future The small-appliance maker may soon find itself in hot water with the SEC. Investors, take note. |
Salon.com
January 19, 2002
Andrew Leonard |
Capitalist pigs The sordid tales of Enron plutocrats looting the company of its treasure as their employees and shareholders faced ruin are enough to turn you into a class warrior... |
Salon.com
November 9, 2001
Andrew Leonard |
Enron, we hardly knew ye Ironically, only one thing could have saved the now-imploding corporate poster child for deregulation: Tougher regulations requiring more financial "transparency"... |
The Motley Fool
December 26, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
The SEC's Gift to You: Part 2 By giving the investing public access to information, and serving as a regulator with the power to take action to correct problems, the SEC works hard to protect investors. |
Financial Advisor
November 2009
Jeff Schlegel |
The Great Debate Financial services reform is coming. How will it impact advisors? |
Investment Advisor
August 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Danger & Opportunity: Consumers Take Center Stage of Reform Debate Financial services reform continues to unfold, with two pieces of legislation being sent to Capitol Hill in July aimed at protecting investors. |
Salon.com
November 7, 2002
Andrew Leonard |
Pitt is history, but the foxes are still guarding the henhouse So what if the most visible face of Bush's see-no-evil economic policies is gone? Corporate reform is further away than ever. |
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. |
Investment Advisor
May 2010
Melanie Waddell |
30 for 30 Interviews: Harry Markopolos Independent financial fraud investigator Harry Markopolos identifies strengths and weakness of the SEC. |
On Wall Street
May 1, 2013
Cumming & Horwitz |
SEC Takes on Structured Notes Large banks need to provide better information on these complex securities sold to the wealthy, regulator says. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 7, 2008
Martha Lagace |
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron Companies can take steps to help senior executives avoid the two sources of leadership failure at Enron: personal opportunism and flights to utopianism. |
CFO
August 1, 2012
Randy Myers |
Unfinished Business Two years after the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, the law's implementation is far behind schedule, and its success is still in doubt. |
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. |
CFO
March 1, 2012
Sarah Johnson |
Could Its IFRS Delay Strip the SEC of Power? International standards group gently prods the SEC to step up its involvement. |
Financial Advisor
October 2010
Andrew Gluck |
Pulling The Switch Are state regulators ready to assume oversight of some 4,200 RIAs? |
Investment Advisor
January 2009
Jeff Joseph |
More Regulation Post-Madoff? The only thing they are certain of is that his alleged Ponzi scheme. |
Investment Advisor
February 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Mary Schapiro's Priorities Mary Schapiro tells the Senate Banking Committee what her priorities will be at the SEC. |
Salon.com
November 30, 2001
Andrew Leonard |
Will Bush be tarnished by Enron's collapse? The crash of his top corporate backer should discredit the president's anti-regulation economic policies, but it's unlikely to lead to reform... |
Financial Advisor
May 2005
Evan Simonoff |
Editor's Note Ohio Republican Michael Oxley addresses the issue of exemption from RIA regulation that the SEC just granted brokers and specifically the Financial Planning Association's lawsuit. |
Knowledge@Wharton
September 10, 2003 |
Do High Regulatory Costs Force Public Firms to Go Private? Steps aimed at increasing the financial transparency of U.S. companies could backfire if companies respond by going private instead. In these post-Enron, post-WorldCom times, that would deal a body blow to confidence in capital markets. |
CFO
March 1, 2010
Sarah Johnson |
Nonplussed by Non-GAAP CFOs are dismayed and discouraged by the SEC's approach to non-GAAP reporting. |
BusinessWeek
September 30, 2010
Jesse Westbrook |
The Accounting Board Is a Sinecure Qua Non Consumer advocates say the accounting oversight board's record is a cautionary tale for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. |
Reason
January 2009
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Is Deregulation to Blame? The new Washington consensus says "yes." The facts on the ground say something different. |
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. |
CFO
September 1, 2006
Julia Homer |
Enron, RIP? The louder the calls for a hiatus in new rules or the rolling back of existing ones, the less reason investors may have to place their confidence in companies issuing such demands. |
The Motley Fool
June 20, 2005
S.J. Caplan |
7 Reasons to Bid Donaldson a Fond Adieu Investors should appreciate what was accomplished in the SEC chairman's tenure. |
Investment Advisor
July 2010
Melanie Waddell |
A Whirlwind of SEC Activity Harmonization of advisor and B/D rules will move forward. |
Investment Advisor
July 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Danger & Opportunity: Bracing for Change It looks to be all but inevitable that the rules for broker/dealers and investment advisors will be harmonized, and that broker/dealers offering investment advice will have to adhere to a fiduciary standard of care. |
