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.
In the wake of the Wall Street scandals of the past few years, it was inevitable that government regulators would take a look at how the self-regulatory organizations (SROs), such as the NYSE and the NASD, were doing their jobs. If the SROs were...
Big full-service brokerage houses like Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, UBS and Smith Barney have long tried to have it both ways: hiring brokers as employees in an effort to own the client relationships, while treating brokers like independent...
The SEC has charged four brokers and a daytrader with cheating investors through a fraudulent scheme that used squawk boxes to eavesdrop on confidential order flow information, enabling them to trade ahead of large orders at more favorable prices...
Peter Scannell wants his cut. The former Putnam Investments employee, who blew the whistle on the Boston-based fund giant's market-timing practices, has filed a lawsuit seeking 30 percent of the firm's $50 million fine, according to a report in...
The way things started out, William Scott seemed like a class act. In 2002, when his employer, Prudential Securities, decided to create a complex by merging his Dayton, Ohio, branch with one in Cincinnati, Scott won the competition to manage it...
Discrimination lawsuits against Morgan Stanley could start rolling in from brokers laid off in August, say labor lawyers. The firm got rid of 1,000 low producers according to a strict performance-based system, but women in the retail brokerage...
The war in Iraq has cost Elton Johnson just about everything. Johnson, owner and operator of Amerivet Securities, a small broker/dealer in Inglewood, Calif., is a major in the U.S. Army Reserve who has been on active duty since Dec. 2001. He...
Hydie Sumner is on the cusp of winning a battle many think she was crazy for waging. Sumner, a former broker who successfully sued Merrill Lynch for sexual discrimination, has been trying for seven years to reacquire her job at the firm. Now an...
Henry Ford famously offered to deliver his Model T in any color, so long as it was black. Customers in the securities industry have roughly the same amount of choice when it comes to settling disputes it's arbitration or nothing. This is...
ON ITS WEB SITE, THE NASD SAYS THE HEART OF ITS MISSION IS TO ENFORCE SECURITIES LAWS IN A VIGOROUS, FAIR AND EFFECTIVE MANNER. ASK ANY BROKER/DEALER EXECUTIVE OR COMPLIANCE CHIEF AND THEY WOULD LIKELY GROAN, VIGOROUS, YES, BUT FAIR? Executives of...