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Think for a moment about your affluent clients and their centers-of-influence. As you scroll through these images in the theater of your mind, try to assess your marketplace equity. If is your initial response to this term, you are not alone. But...
Last year, Robert Isbitts, who runs Weston, Fla.-based RIA Emerald Asset Advisors, decided he had to take drastic action. Legal and regulatory compliance issues were spreading his employees thin. Everyone at the firm was responsible for his or her...
Q: Where do you draw the line between what is best for your clients' money, and what is best for your clients in the long run? My manager gets upset with me sometimes when I steer a client away from a 529 that I can manage, to the state 529 plan...
Trader Jett Asked to Pay Up, Again Joe Jett, the young bond trader at Kidder Peabody, who was the central figure in one of Wall Street's most high-profile trading scandals, has been told to pay up to the tune of $8.4 million. Jett, who now runs...
Don't call Mark Beloyan a penny stock tout. Sure, Beloyan speculates in low-priced securities. And, yes, his book is built around trading and finding retail investors who want to make a bet on the shares of companies that are more or less still in...
The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) charged 38 defendants of stealing more than $12 million in stock loan kickbacks from their Wall Street employers. Basically stock loan traders at Morgan Stanley, A.G. Edwards, Nomura Securities and...
The SEC has thrown a bone to the large brokerage firms. After taking away fee-based brokerage accounts in March, the Commission has eased the requirements of principal trading rules.
A report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released on Monday says the enforcement division of the SEC needs to improve the way it handles investigations.
NEXT Financial Group is in the hot seat again. The Securities Exchange Commission issued an Order Instituting Cease-and-Desist Proceedings against the independent broker/dealer late last month.
