I like to read important proposed legislation. Actually, I don't so much like it — the text is often mind-numbing — but I make myself do it because I think that it is important.
History is rife with examples of adverse, unintended consequences resulting from well-intentioned lawmaking acting in the face of a crisis.
By definition, prudence involves the exercise of skill and good judgment in the use of resources. It is a core fiduciary duty.
The Department of the Treasury last Tuesday sent to Capitol Hill the final piece of its financial regulatory reform legislation, a 115-page bill aimed at reforming regulation of over-the-counter derivatives.
A former broker with Wells Fargo Advisors LLC of St. Louis has sued the firm for sexual discrimination.
The state of Ohio yesterday reached a $115 million settlement with ex-AIG chief executive Maurice R. “Hank” Greenberg and a handful of former AIG executives in a suit that alleged bid rigging and accounting fraud.
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Having already added nearly 300 financial advisers in the first six months of the year, Stifel Financial Corp. is now poised to add another 350 new advisers — at least — in the second half of 2009.
Daniel Andersen, a promoter serving time in prison, was permanently barred from marketing fraudulent tax schemes by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday filed an administrative proceeding against Axa Advisors LLC for failing to supervise a former registered representative who pleaded guilty to securities fraud in January 2008.
Just months before his now-infamous Ponzi scheme collapsed, Bernie Madoff snookered a Merrill Lynch adviser who was attempting to perform due diligence on him for a foundation that serves the elderly, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Florida last week.
Hong Kong regulators on Monday banned a former banker at one of Asia's top stock brokerages from the territory's financial industry for life after he was jailed for insider trading.
The number of advisers moving from one wirehouse to another reached a nine-month low last month, according to data compiled by the Discovery-RR Database.
The U.S. and Swiss governments have reached an out-of-court settlement in the tax evasion case involving the Internal Revenue Service's request that UBS AG turn over the identities of 52,000 Americans who have accounts with the bank that may have been used to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
The Department of the Treasury sent the final piece of its financial regulatory reform legislation to Capitol Hill , a 115-page bill aimed at reforming regulation of over-the-counter derivatives.
For the first time in a year, more of Fidelity's 11.2 million plan participants have raised, rather than reduced, their contributions.
A retired Michigan couple has filed a securities arbitration claim against Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. for sales practices that allegedly led to a loss of $650,000.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has taken the unusual step of opposing what a court-appointed receiver is doing in the massive Ponzi case that involves companies owned by Robert Allen Stanford.
The former chief financial officer for Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy, admitting to helping Madoff carry out a massive fraud that cost thousands of people billions of dollars by lying to investors and testifying falsely when it seemed the fraud might be discovered.
