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Mark Schoeff Jr.

Mark Schoeff Jr. is a senior reporter at InvestmentNews. Based in Washington, D.C., he covers legislation and regulations affecting retail investment advisers and brokers. Prior to joining InvestmentNews in 2010, he wrote about employment and labor law for Workforce Management, a magazine that was published at the time by Crain Communications. He is a member of the National Press Club board. Before migrating to the editorial side of the journalism ecosystem, he served as press secretary for the late Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana and as director of external relations for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank in Washington. In a region where people keep their hometown loyalties intact, he has lived in the Washington area long enough to become an actual fan of the Nationals, Wizards, Capitals and the Washington Football Team. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University and a master’s degree from George Mason University.

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Schapiro: SEC now soliciting input on fiduciary issue

The SEC must be expecting a whole lot of opinions on whether the agency should revamp the fiduciary standard: the regulator is supersizing its comment period to cope with what's coming

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Congress poised to boost SEC funding for reform tasks

Congress is poised to boost significantly funding for the Securities and Exchange Commission so that the agency can fulfill scores of new financial-regulatory-reform responsibilities.

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Schapiro: SEC has to hire 800 more workers

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro told a congressional panel last Tuesday that the SEC is poised to take on the scores of directives mandated by the financial-reform bill that President Barack Obama signed into law on Wednesday.

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Americans’ use of financial planners unchanged since crisis

Nearly two-thirds of those surveyed said they believe the economy will improve but are more worried than they were at the beginning of the financial meltdown.

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Private-equity-fund advisers balk at new oversight rules

Financial advisers to some private-equity funds fear that efforts to reduce systemic risk in the financial markets, a key theme of the massive reform bill signed into law last week, are unfairly targeting them.

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Wall Street spends big on Capitol Hill clout

Lobbying efforts by major banks are watering down the financial-regulatory-reform bill being debated in the Senate — bolstering Wall Street at the expense of Main Street, according to a report released last week.

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Reform becomes law as questions abound

The sweeping financial-regulatory-reform legislation that President Barack Obama will sign this week represents anything but closure for Wall Street.

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Congress passes fiduciary ball to SEC

In signing off last Friday on the most sweeping overhaul of financial regulation since the Great Depression, congressional negotiators took a major step toward empowering the SEC to decide whether stockbrokers should be more accountable to individual investors.

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Tougher House fiduciary language makes it into final financial-reg bill

House and Senate negotiators agreed to include the stronger House provision on fiduciary duty in the sweeping financial regulatory reform bill. (Get the rundown on the full reform, and how advisers and planners will be impacted.)

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A ‘major tax hit’ lurking for financial planners

Senate Democrats this week will try to cobble together the 60 votes required to pass legislation that would…

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