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FINTECH JAN 27, 2010
Finra unveils guidelines for social media and blogging

For months, a task force for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. has been reviewing some of the major issues surrounding the professional use of social media in the financial services community – and now the self-regulatory organization has finally issued an overview of their guidelines.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JAN 22, 2010
Edward Jones to hire 1,000 advisers this year

St. Louis-based brokerage firm says it is reaping the benefits from the national trend of financial advisers exiting bigger brokerages and bringing their clients with them

The wholesalers' handbook: The do's and do-not's of working with advisers
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JAN 20, 2010
The wholesalers' handbook: The do's and do-not's of working with advisers

Advisers typically are encountered by wholesalers from fund companies on an almost daily basis.

RIA NEWS JAN 14, 2010
Video: Sallie Krawcheck sounds off on RIA model

RETIREMENT PLANNING DEC 30, 2009
Adviser who led double life gets 17 years for $20M fraud

A judge in Massachusetts throws the book at an adviser who swindled the heirs of gilded-age industrialist Frederick Ayer, Jr.

Prison fight — not high blood pressure — sent Bernie Madoff to the hospital
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION DEC 29, 2009
Prison fight — not high blood pressure — sent Bernie Madoff to the hospital

Contrary to what his lawyer indicated at the time, the Ponzi king apparently got crowned in big house bust-up in December

When cashing out of an annuity makes sense
OPINION SEP 19, 2008
When cashing out of an annuity makes sense