Acting as Rocky Mountain Securities & Investments Inc.'s (RMSI) President, Director, Registered Financial and Operations Principal (FINOP), and Compliance Officer, Stephen J. Horning was a jack-of-all-trades unfortunately, he appeared not to be a...

What to do with the securities industry's Depression-era regulations that have investors confused over the difference between a registered investment advisor and a registered rep? After more than a year of collecting and analyzing data, the much...

Too Much Volume: The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) fined 19 broker/dealers in January a total of $2.8 million for substantially overstating their advertised trade volume to three private service providers. These service providers...

I was watching a TV documentary recently about a middle-aged man who was preparing to swim the English Channel. A reporter asked him why he had chosen to undertake this particular challenge especially since the man, a popular TV comedian, was not...

Depending upon who you listen to, we are either in a recession, or one is gathering on the horizon. (The Fed's Beige Book says no recession just slower growth.) Either way, it takes a brave investor to start taking stakes in high-yield bond funds...

Apparently, some people still think it’s far too easy for brokers to wipe their records clean, particularly where customer dispute information is concerned. A story on SmartMoney

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The SEC released the results of the RAND study today, which examined two issues: how broker/dealers and investment advisors market and provide products and services to investors, and how investors understand the differences between investment...

Let's review three irrefutable truths: The affluent do not like sales people. Too many veteran advisors have neglected their sales skills. Advisors possessing high-level sales skills can take affluent clients from anybody. Although few would...