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The SEC has filed a complaint against a former LPL rep and branch manager, who, the SEC says, had been engaging in one of the oldest broker tricks in the book: Stealing his clients money.
Proper asset allocation is the cornerstone of prudent investing. But once the allocation is made, fiduciaries have a critical decision to make: How should each asset class be invested? There are two main choices: active or passive management. Both...
Brokerage firms can say anything they like on a departing broker's Form U5, even if it's defamatory in nature and untrue. That's because the New York Court of Appeals ruled in Rosenberg v. MetLife Inc. that brokerage firms were entitled to an...
The first annual meeting of the new Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's (FINRA) 23-member board is slated for October 26, 2007, and the regulator recently announced its official slate of seven nominees for its elective seats. Anyone seeking...
Foreign companies are certainly thumbing their noses at U.S. exchanges these days. The number of American Depository Receipts listed on U.S. exchanges peaked in 2001 at over 600, and has been in decline ever since, according to a report from...
About the current credit market turmoil, Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in early September, The behavior in what we are observing in the last seven weeks is identical in many respects to what we saw in 1998, what we saw in the...
Financial stocks have understandably led the market down during the recent credit-related correction. But the group has also recently led in another area: insider buying. In July and August, executives and directors in this much-beleaguered sector...
Millions of investors have piled into exchange-traded funds (ETFs) over the past decade. Assets in the funds have grown from $65 billion in 2000 to $488 billion today, according to the Investment Company Institute, the mutual fund trade group...
