Agency's Investor Advisory Committee thinks current standard of income, wealth oversimplifies who should qualify to buy private offerings.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: A real risk thanks to the bull market: investors' sense of invincibility, plus El-Erian dishes on Pimco, second-guessing Calpers, and more.
Advisers and others in investment industry disagree about how or whether the accredited investor standard should be changed
Judy Wolf, formerly with Wells Fargo, allegedly attempted to make it appear she adequately reviewed a broker later charged with insider trading. <b><i>Plus, see <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/gallery/20140507/FREE/507009999/PH/5-big-compliance-lessons-from-recent-sec-cases" target="_blank">5 compliance lessons from recent SEC cases</a></b></i>
Firm settles charges that compliance oversight was weak after 2008 acquisition of advisory unit.
Former intern claims she was offered Christian Louboutin shoes in exchange for sex; adviser and firm say she welcomed advances.
Friday's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> features: Bill Gross is selling bonds. Should you? Plus: Finra might go inside to replace Fienberg; the markets' muted reaction to Obama; pump and dump; more money flows to hedge funds; and Cantor's way of commemorating 9/11.
Enforcement actions by NASAA members resulted in one-third-longer sentences last year over 2012.
NASAA working group not going to draw conclusions about whether fees are too high, just how to make them more transparent.
Fat commissions could be trimmed if states approve regulations affecting the sale of nontraded real estate investment trusts.
Mark Goldberg of IPA praises regulator's action to extend clarity to investor statements.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> The Bond King levers up. Plus: There is nothing smooth about the Fed's next move, the first nail in hedge funds' coffin and more.
The Federal Reserve decides to hold tight on interest rates, and advisers are reacting accordingly.
State securities regulators are making noise about implementing changes to policies that would limit how much a client's net worth could be invested in nontraded real estate investment trusts. Those limits would have helped clients in the case of a Louisiana broker who now has a Finra complaint.
NASAA report on hidden and complicated fee disclosures sparks drive for simple, uniform language.
Wary advisers are taking a closer look at F-Squared Investments, the largest manager of exchange-traded-fund portfolios, which is under investigation for misrepresenting past returns.
The SEC's potential rules to increase disclosure of mutual fund holdings should be applauded.
Victims of the most infamous Ponzi scheme lost $17.5 billion but this week, recoveries reached $10 billion. The cost of liquidating the con man's defunct investment advisory firm has topped $1 billion but his former clients aren't footing the bill.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Biotechs riding high. Plus: Reading into the market's Halloween indicator, J.P. Morgan steps in another MBS mess, Ford looks like a preview of things to come for stocks, and investing like rich folks, even if you aren't rich yet.
