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Barclays snags $750M team from Morgan Stanley
RIAS JUN 07, 2010
Barclays snags $750M team from Morgan Stanley

Barclays Wealth has hired Don Milich and Clifford Wang as investment representatives, based in Atlanta, as part of its effort to continue growing its wealth management operations in the U.S.

By Staff Report
Tax-credit proposal would buy homebuyers more time
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUN 07, 2010
Tax-credit proposal would buy homebuyers more time

The clock is running down on home purchasers looking to qualify for a hefty tax break. But a new proposal in Congress would cut these buyers -- and those who lend to them -- a little slack.

By Associated Press
INDUSTRY NEWS JUN 07, 2010
Coming: Clarity on alternative investments?

In an age of automation, broker-dealers interested in alternative investments -- hedge funds, LLPs,, non-traded REITs and the like -- still rely on phone calls and faxes to conduct transactions. A new platform could change all that.

By Bruce Kelly
Goldman judge sent Bernie Ebbers to jail for 25 years
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUN 07, 2010
Goldman judge sent Bernie Ebbers to jail for 25 years

Barbara Jones sentenced the former WorldCom boss to a long stretch in prison. But attorneys say she's lenient to those who cooperate

By Associated Press
Federal prosecutors probing Goldman: Sources
INDUSTRY NEWS JUN 07, 2010
Federal prosecutors probing Goldman: Sources

It's been a tough week for the Wall Street giant. On Tuesday, the bank's executives were pilloried by a Senate subcommittee. Now, sources claim the U.S. attorney in New York is looking into transactions conducted by the firm.

By Bloomberg
IRA ALERT JUN 06, 2010
Having the conversion conversation

Although the Roth conversion isn't for everyone, financial advisers must have the conversion conversation with every client who qualifies.

By Ed Slott
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUN 06, 2010
Obama's 401(k) rule up in the air after House measure

By Darla Mercado
INDUSTRY NEWS JUN 04, 2010
Time is right to invest in sectors that do well as interest rates rise

With interest rates at historic lows and no place to go but up, it behooves investors to have a strategy in place ahead of a rate hike cycle that is likely to begin this year.

By Jeff Benjamin
RIAS JUN 03, 2010
Starting from scratch to build a business? Never quit marketing

When John Krambeer left the brokerage industry in 2004 to start his own fee-based firm, the first few years were 'pure hell.'

By Jeff Benjamin
RIAS JUN 03, 2010
Partners put all their assets in a single basket

By Hilary Johnson
WIREHOUSES JUN 03, 2010
Broker's alleged theft of cemetery trust funds costs Citi $1.5M

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. announced today that it has hit Citigroup Global Markets Inc. with a monetary sanction for supervisory violations relating to its handling of trust funds belonging to cemeteries in two states.

By InvestmentNews Staff
BROKER DEALERS JUN 03, 2010
Indie B-D lures top reps — with a twist

Plying a path that sometimes has proven perilous, DeWaay Financial is staking its claim in the marketplace by offering financial advisers and their wealthy clients access to high-stakes private-equity, venture-capital and investment-banking deals.

By Bruce Kelly
OPINION JUN 03, 2010
Goldman proves need for higher standards

While getting pilloried in hearings before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, representatives from The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. characterized their firm as a market maker, denied that they had fiduciary status, and displayed apparent bewilderment at the senators' questions about legal or ethical obligations to place clients' interests first.

By Blaine F. Aikin
OPINION JUN 03, 2010
Why wirehouse advisors think independent brokers are a joke

By Danny Sarch
RIAS JUN 03, 2010
Goldman case brings renewed hope in fiduciary-reform fight

The SEC charges of fraud against Goldman Sachs & Co. are giving renewed hope to financial advisers who want the fiduciary standard included in financial-reform legislation pending in Congress.

By Bruce Kelly
INDUSTRY NEWS JUN 02, 2010
Bob Doll's video viewpoints: Calls for the second half

Bob Doll, the vice chairman and chief equity strategist at Blackrock, sat down with InvestmentNews to offer his thoughts on the direction of the global markets, as well as interest rates, for the remainder of 2010.

By Mark Bruno
Investors missing out on 'epic earnings recovery,' says Putnam's Thakore
INDUSTRY NEWS JUN 02, 2010
Investors missing out on 'epic earnings recovery,' says Putnam's Thakore

The economy is in a lot better shape than most people think, according to Nick Thakore, manager of the $4 billion Putnam Voyager Fund

By Bloomberg
INDUSTRY NEWS JUN 02, 2010
Morningstar to rate all Section 529 plans

By Jessica Toonkel Marquez
Indictment, emails reveal disturbing details in alleged muni bond bid-rigging scheme
INDUSTRY NEWS JUN 02, 2010
Indictment, emails reveal disturbing details in alleged muni bond bid-rigging scheme

For three years, the Justice Department has been probing a purported massive conspiracy in the muni bond market. An inside look at the government's investigation reveals how banks, traders, advisers and brokers allegedly cheated towns and taxpayers out of billions of dollars.

By Bloomberg
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUN 02, 2010
SEC targets shady practices in muni bond market

The securities regulator aims to boost transparency -- and curb conflicts of interest -- in the $2.8T municipal issuance industry

By Bloomberg