Ex-broker now accused of violating securities laws with fictitious investments
Four-person advisory group in Charleston, S.C., manages $178 million
Walter Marino allegedly profited from advising elderly clients to buy new contracts.
Next-generation financial planning community sponsors effort to find new tools for younger clients, advisers.
Massachusetts regulator calls the pending legislation 'a gift to the investment industry and Wall Street special interests.'
Four breakaways in Colorado Springs sign on with HighTower.
More than 9,200 calls result in 650 referrals to regulators, 130 to protective services.
But overall activity in first half of the government's fiscal year remained on par with the same period last year.
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