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Internet Securities Bust: Gerald Milligan and Andrew Mariani, of Wellington, Fla., were jointly charged by the FBI, a Florida district attorney and others, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Milligan ran an investment website through a company...
Want to borrow some money from a client? Yeah, sounds a little shady on the face of it, but maybe you have good reasons. Well, proceed with caution. NASD Conduct Rule 2370: Borrowing From or Lending to Customers is a fairly simple proposition...
When a client opens a brokerage account, he agrees that he won't sue you, the registered rep, in a court of law. In opening the account, the client agrees to take his complaint through an arbitration system controlled by the securities industry...
The EEOC is investigating claims made by former Morgan Stanley advisors that the firm discriminated against older workers when it laid off 1,000 financial advisors back in 2005, according to a story in the Associated Press.
After three years of raking in multi-billions in fines, the Securities and Exchange Commission collected just $1.6 billion in penalties in the year ending September 30. It’s the lowest amount since 2002 (when fines totaled $1.4 billion); it&...
The securities industry’s biggest lobby held its annual meeting today, and, as usual, congratulated itself on the great job the industry has been doing in raising capital for business
The subprime debt market blowup has had very different effects on Wall Street firms Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch. Goldman earnings shined in the third quarter, and Merrill earnings stunk. But according to news reports
ARE YOU CHARGING ENOUGH? That's hard to say. These days, discounting runs rampant in the financial-advisory industry: Firms allow giant haircuts on commissions, wrap-account fees and even fully waived mutual fund loads. Meanwhile, fees on assets...
It's All In The Name: The SEC recently charged Robert Ray White Samples, principal of Pot O' Gold Financial Services in Denver, Colo., with misappropriating more than $1 million from 31 investors through two fraudulent investment schemes. The...
