Regulation and Compliance issues for Wealth Professionals can be challenging to navigate especially when the SEC is involved. Catch the latest news and analysis on compliance updates that impact financial advisors.
With a little over one month before its maiden Board of Governors election, the new industry self-regulator FINRA faces its boldest challenge yet not only to its own nominees for the board, but also to its own integrity. The Financial Industry...
When a Portand, ORE.-based independent rep. recently took detailed client information with her to her new broker/dealer, she had no idea that she was breaking the law. With her current b/d on the verge of being bought out by a much larger firm...
Q: On a periodic basis, I prepare appraisals of my clients' accounts. Some of my clients have expressed interest in continuing to receive these appraisals, others have told me that they don't review them, and a few have told me that they would...
Blame Frank Gruttadauria. A little over one year after NASD's new supervisory control rules (3012 and 3013) took effect, broker/dealers are tightening the screws on the way they supervise their brokers and advisors. Some firms have implemented...
When Bob McCann flew to Washington, D.C., on July 16 to meet with SEC Chairman Christopher Cox, it was a last-ditch effort to save fee-based brokerage accounts
Broker-dealers may get a long wished for break from the burdens of principal trade regulation for the investment advisor side of their businesses—for a little while anyway.
Last Wednesday, August 15, a DHL deliveryman uncovered over 100 animals (cats and dogs) living and dead in total squalor in the $2.4 million dollar Saddle River, NJ home owned by Merrill Lynch broker, Philip Tamis, 66 and his wife, Cynthia Stewart...
Thomas Jefferson did it in the 1790s. Ernest Hemingway did it and wrote about it in the 1920s. Today, as well, many Americans move to France to live. Wealthy Americans often purchase homes there, which they visit parfois (occasionally). Some...
The regulatory body created by the recent merger of NYSE Regulation and NASD Regulation, known for the past five weeks as SIRA, needs a new name. As it turns out, SIRA, which stands for Securities Industry Regulatory Authority, is also an Arabic...
