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NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JAN 22, 2010
McCann rolls out enhanced pay plan at UBS

Robert McCann is rewarding the veteran brokers who have stayed with UBS Financial Services Inc. through the past two years.

By Bloomberg
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JAN 22, 2010
Why the CPI is a 'massive shell game'

Investors in Treasury inflation-protected securities should be aware the “government is playing games with the CPI numbers” in an attempt to keep inflation low, said Robert Arnott, chairman of Research Affiliates LLC.

By Bloomberg
NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 22, 2010
Meltdown jolts consumers from financial fairyland

Financial planners around the country say there is a sense that people are returning to basic principles: Maximize savings; limit use of credit cards; keep a substantial emergency fund; understand risk; diversify; and don't short-cut your way to wealth.

By Bloomberg
LPL's purchase of NRP: A closer look
NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 21, 2010
LPL's purchase of NRP: A closer look

With anticipation building about its $600 million IPO, LPL Investment Holdings Inc. last week said that it is acquiring the assets of National Retirement Partners Corp., an advisory and brokerage firm that specializes in defined-contribution retirement plans.

By Jessica Toonkel
Once 'America's hottest investor,' CMG's Heebner on a cold streak
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JAN 21, 2010
Once 'America's hottest investor,' CMG's Heebner on a cold streak

In May 2008, Ken Heebner was touted as 'America's hottest investor.' He's cooled off considerably since then. Can the CMG Focus Fund boss regain his touch?

By Charles Stein, Bloomberg News
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JAN 21, 2010
Does LPL's filing reveal an unspoken truth about indie B-Ds?

When it comes to controlling client assets, LPL Investment Holdings Inc.'s recent IPO registration offers clear proof that the remaining four wirehouse broker-dealers still dwarf the more diverse galaxy of independent broker-dealers.

By Bruce Kelly
NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES JAN 21, 2010
What to expect from revived life insurers: UBS analyst

Life carriers' outlook appears to be taking a turn for the better, according to a prominent equities analyst.

By Darla Mercado
NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES JAN 21, 2010
Sun Life LTC hybrid pits insurer against Lincoln National

Former Lincoln National execs launch Sun Life combo product that will go up against MoneyGuard; 'we know the formula'

By Darla Mercado
O'Hanley: Heir to Fidelity throne, or just passing through?
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JAN 21, 2010
O'Hanley: Heir to Fidelity throne, or just passing through?

Ronald P. O'Hanley has the temperament and business savvy needed to occupy the premier industry hot seat between Edward “Ned” Johnson, chairman and CEO of Fidelity Investments, and his daughter Abigail -- but does he have the inside track?

By Douglas Appell
NEWS BROKER DEALERS JAN 21, 2010
Broker-dealer industry revenue down 10%

The independent broker-dealer industry took a giant step backward last year, with the largest 25 firms collectively reporting a 10.3% drop in gross revenue.

By Bruce Kelly
NEWS BROKER DEALERS JAN 21, 2010
Who - or what - killed GunnAllen Financial?

As the stock market was climbing to its historical peak in late summer 2007, GunnAllen Financial Inc. executives told people that the firm was working to put the worst elements from its brief, intense past of breakneck growth behind it.

By Bruce Kelly
GunnAllen's top-producers bolt for a new broker-dealer
NEWS BROKER DEALERS JAN 21, 2010
GunnAllen's top-producers bolt for a new broker-dealer

The biggest-producing branch of dead-in-the water GunnAllen Financial Inc. is heading to a new independent broker-dealer, Aegis Capital Corp.

By Bruce Kelly
Finra shuts down GunnAllen
NEWS BROKER DEALERS JAN 21, 2010
Finra shuts down GunnAllen

Embattled firm said to be in net capital violation after eleventh-hour effort failed to raise fresh funds

By Bruce Kelly
Six broker-dealers subpoenaed over private placements
NEWS BROKER DEALERS JAN 21, 2010
Six broker-dealers subpoenaed over private placements

Massachusetts widens the net in its ongoing probe of private placements gone bad.

By Bruce Kelly
NEWS PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JAN 21, 2010
GunnAllen founders jumping to rival broker-dealer in wake of firm's collapse

After watching the fall of GunnAllen Financial Inc. become official this morning, the firm's founders —Donald James “Jay” Gunn and Richard Allen Frueh —are apparently moving to a rival broker-dealer.

By Bruce Kelly
Wirehouse walls set to come tumbling down?
NEWS RIAS JAN 21, 2010
Wirehouse walls set to come tumbling down?

Right now, defections to other firms aren't that common. But the big Wall Street firms could soon see an exodus of top-level brokers

By Evan Cooper
NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES JAN 21, 2010
U.S. life insurers have plenty of liquidity

But new study by Moody's finds that the financial stability of U.S. carriers trails that of rivals in Asia

By Darla Mercado
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS JAN 21, 2010
Profits up, stocks down: Market madness this week?

Stocks got carried away about the recovery. That at least is one interpretation of two curious market moves so far this earnings season. Intel Corp. blew away expectations Thursday. Ditto for JPMorgan Chase & Co. the next day.

By Bloomberg
NEWS WIREHOUSES JAN 21, 2010
Large adviser teams control 80% of wirehouse assets

Large adviser teams at wirehouses control, on average, 80% of their firm's assets, and about a third of the industry's total adviser-managed assets, according to Cerulli Associates Inc.

By Dan Jamieson
NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JAN 21, 2010
Finra to get tough on Reg D offerings

Finra expects to bring cases against brokerage firms involved in selling private-placement offerings next year, its head of enforcement said last week.

By Sara Hansard