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FIXED INCOME JUL 27, 2010
Morgan Keegan to square off against regulators

Morgan Keegan & Co. has been granted an administration hearing on allegations that its brokerage firm cost investors, including retirees, more than $2 billion in losses through fraudulent and reckless business practices.

By Associated Press
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUL 27, 2010
Is e-mail smoking gun in Morgan Keegan case?

Plaintiff's attorneys who are suing Morgan Keegan & Co. Inc. over its failed Regions Morgan Keegan Select bond funds are in an uproar about what they claim is the firm's cover-up of embarrassing documents.

By Dan Jamieson
RIAS JUL 27, 2010
Rockefeller & Co. hires wealth adviser

Matthew Gelfand, former Fed hand, signs on with family office firm

By Bloomberg
RIAS JUL 27, 2010
Rockefeller & Co. comes up with new name, but no new CEO

Rockefeller & Co., Inc., the wealth management firm that has been looking for a chief executive since the suicide of CEO James McDonald last fall, has changed its name to Rockefeller Financial.

By Hilary Johnson
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUL 26, 2010
Finra critic convicted for sham sale of money market fund

Goble barred from securities industry for illegal transaction; co-founded FIA

By Dan Jamieson
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES JUL 26, 2010
Will SEC's life settlement proposal kill industry?

Critics say plan to treat all life settlements as securities will shrink the industry – or worse; others say that's hooey

By Bloomberg
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES JUL 26, 2010
SEC task force: Life settlements should be defined as 'securities'

An SEC task force on Thursday recommended that life settlements be defined as 'securities,' thus making such transactions subject to federal securities laws.

By Bloomberg
INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 26, 2010
JPMorgan's David Kelly: What to make of this week's indicators and earnings

Like a road crew repairing potholes, analysts this week will be trying to measure the length and depth of the economic “soft patch” currently afflicting the U.S. economy.

By Bloomberg
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES JUL 26, 2010
AllianceBernstein looking to add financial advisers this year

AllianceBernstein Holding LP demonstrated enough progress in some businesses last year that the company plans to add advisers in 2010 and may buy smaller complementary firms, executives said late Thursday during an earnings conference call.

By Hilary Johnson
INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 26, 2010
Execs must answer tough questions at Securities America

By Bruce Kelly
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUL 26, 2010
Mass. securities cop claims Securities America misled investors

The Massachusetts Securities Division today filed a complaint against Securities America Inc., charging that the broker-dealer and subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial Inc. misled investors when it sold them private-placement securities.

By Jessica Toonkel Marquez
INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 25, 2010
Midterm elections may boost stocks: Report

Investors desperately looking for hope in the current choppy market may want to focus on the upcoming midterm elections.

By Hilary Johnson
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES JUL 25, 2010
An easier pill to swallow

In his early 60s and at the doorstep of retirement, Robert Neiswanger was considering long-term-care insurance. He acknowledged that the coverage made sense, but he couldn't come to terms with paying for something he might never need.

By Darla Mercado
IRA ALERT JUL 25, 2010
Ed Slott: Turn lemons into Roth conversion cash

If your client wants to convert his or her individual retirement account to a Roth IRA this year but doesn't have cash from non-IRA sources to pay the tax on the conversion, consider looking at his or her capital assets.

By Ed Slott
ALTERNATIVES JUL 25, 2010
Private-equity-fund advisers balk at new oversight rules

Financial advisers to some private-equity funds fear that efforts to reduce systemic risk in the financial markets, a key theme of the massive reform bill signed into law last week, are unfairly targeting them.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
Goldman Sachs to pay $550M to settle civil fraud charges
WIREHOUSES JUL 25, 2010
Goldman Sachs to pay $550M to settle civil fraud charges

Goldman Sachs & Co. has agreed to pay $550 million to settle civil fraud charges that accused the Wall Street giant of misleading buyers of mortgage-related investments.

By Mark Bruno
INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 23, 2010
Banks' new fees, low rates put savers in the hole

With added charges, shrinking interest, putting mony in the bank can be a losing proposition; mattress starting to look good

By Bloomberg
OPINION JUL 23, 2010
Catch a rising star with four stocks on the move

By John Dorfman
Vanguard, Marsico pull out leaves Visa's stock at 'Armageddon' level
INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 23, 2010
Vanguard, Marsico pull out leaves Visa's stock at 'Armageddon' level

Company's share price pummelled after sell-off by fund firms; 'fundamentals remain solid'

By Bloomberg
INDUSTRY NEWS JUL 23, 2010
Energy-related MLPs catching on 'like wildfire' with wealthy investors

Affluent investors piling into master limited partnerships for pipelines, tankers; 'huge tax advantage'

By Bloomberg