St. Louis will officially be home to the new Wachovia Securities, after Federal Antitrust regulators approved Wachovia Corp.’s acquisition of A.G. Edwards on Monday. Wachovia says the proxy detailing the ins and outs of the deal for...

Merrill Lynch was hit by yet another discrimination suit yesterday. This time the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency that enforces laws regarding workplace discrimination, is heading the complaint on behalf of former...

We recently represented two different institutional trustees and in each case the primary beneficiary of the trust was incarcerated -- guests of the state, if you will. They were later released. A recent decision out of California on quite another...

Broker-dealers got the breathing room they hoped for on Monday with regards to complying with the recent court ruling that outlaws fee-based brokerage accounts. A federal court granted an SEC-requested 120 day stay, until October 1st, for firms to...

The sub-prime lending meltdown could be spreading. It’s one thing for Bear Stearns to have to arrange a $3.2 billion bailout of one of its hedge funds, but, for the brokerage industry, the problem just hit closer to home...

Mary Schapiro unveiled yesterday the new name it has selected for the new NASD/NYSE regulatory combo: SIRA, which stands for Securities Industry Regulatory Authority, but sounds a little bit more like some ugly winged creature out of Dungeons &...

A New Jersey Appellate Court ruled in favor of Smith Barney’s deferred compensation plan on June 15, reversing a lower court’s decision that said the firm’s Capital Appreciation Plan (CAP) violated New Jersey wage laws. The...

Individual investors are paying less to own mutual fund shares, as fees and expenses have hit their lowest level in more than 25 years, according to research published Tuesday by the Investment Company Institute. In 2006, fund shareholders, on...

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of 17 major investment banks today in an antitrust lawsuit filed by investors who claimed the banks manipulated the IPO market in the dot-com boom years between 1997 and 2000. According to Securities news law blog...

Just 15 days after it announced it was buying A.G. Edwards, Wachovia Securities has announced its retention package for A.G. Edwards reps.