Federal prosecutors are seeking an eight-year sentence for a Kirkland, Wash., financial adviser who stole more than $12 million from 42 clients.
Rhonda Breard, 47, promoted her financial expertise in television infomercials and in $49 seminars at local community colleges. Beginning in 2004, she started encouraging clients to take money out of certain accounts and turn it over to her — supposedly for new investments.
Schapiro lays out new rules requiring asset-backed issuers to retain five percent of asset-backed securitizers
A former broker with Wells Fargo Advisors of St. Louis has sued the firm for sex discrimination.
<i>The following is a letter from John Sykes, the largest single shareholder in defunct broker-dealer GunnAllen Financial, in response to this question posed by InvestmentNews news editor Bruce Kelly late last month: “What happened at GunnAllen?”</i>
Within the individual brokerage firms, there is an ongoing tug of war going on. On one side are Branch Managers who are put under pressure to hire.
Okay, I can't help myself. It is starting already, iPadAppMania (not to be confused with the iPad'o'mania referred to earlier).
Alan Fishman used to drive Wall Street bankers around New York. All the while, he thought he could do what they did. Now, the hedge fund president is facing five years in jail for securities fraud.
The SEC aims to add more enforcement agents and examiners to its hedge fund speciality unit. With 700 hedge shops closing in 2009, there should be shortage of applicants.
A judge has decided prosecutors have enough evidence to try two former Nebraska City brokers accused of defrauding investors out of more than $20 million.
Now that the days of generous variable annuities are behind them, some advisers are finding ways to fit the revamped, slimmed-down versions into clients' portfolios.
The French bank says it's conducting an internal audit after uncovering 'anomalies' in the account. Clients have been notified.
District judge rejects Fidelity's argument, says fund company employees are covered by Sarbanes-Oxley; ruling 'will increase transparency'
For advisers trying to convince themselves (read that as rationalize) that they can buy the new iPad to replace their laptop — don't bother, you can't.
One year later, it's clear who's running the show
I don't understand the flap about service fees, and think that Blaine F. Aiken was wrong about many of his assumptions and representations (the Fiduciary Corner column “Let's say goodbye to 12(b)-1 fees,” which appeared in the Jan. 18 issue).
I have a solution for Lee Feldman's salespeople who are worried about losing their income derived from 12(b)-1 fees (“Keeping 12(b)-1 fees discourages churning,” Feb. 1).
