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NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 17, 2013
State securities cops seek bill to ban pre-dispute arbitration for advisers

NASAA also backs SEC exam user fee, wants crowd-funding redress.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 17, 2013
SEC seeks info on fiduciary-duty cost-benefit analysis

Agency still hasn't gotten down to brass tacks on what rule would cost

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 17, 2013
Finra appeals loss in Schwab arbitration case

Don't crank out those arb contracts just yet. Finra is challenging a ruling that OK'd waiver contracts, in which a client signs away the right to file a class-action lawsuit.

By DJAMIESON
NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 12, 2013
Judge lifts SEC bar against Richard Goble

Orders Securities and Exchange Commission to pay back $7,500 fine.

By DJAMIESON
NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING APR 12, 2013
ING to cough up $5.2 million in Labor Department settlement

Insurer failed to disclose to retirement plan clients that it kept investment gains related to late trades.

By Darla Mercado
NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 12, 2013
More woes for Tony Thompson as Denver couple files lawsuit

This week, an investor filed a lawsuit against Tony Thompson. Bruce Kelly fills in the details about the latest headache for the noted real estate investor.

By Bruce Kelly
NEWS RIAS APR 11, 2013
Florida on verge of making branch office registration instantaneous

Move could ease bottlenecks, bring state more in line with most others.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
$1.5M arb judgment forces B-D to declare bankruptcy, deregister
NEWS ALTERNATIVES APR 11, 2013
$1.5M arb judgment forces B-D to declare bankruptcy, deregister

A Finra arbitration panel has ordered Cambridge Legacy Securities to pay an investor $1.5 million over private placements

By Bruce Kelly
NEWS MUTUAL FUNDS APR 10, 2013
SEC settles case with ex-directors of Morgan Keegan funds

Commission steps up efforts to hold mutual fund directors accountable for accurately priced assets

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING APR 09, 2013
Eighty-sixing 12(b)-1 fees won't help IRA holders: Researchers

But keeping investors out of actively managed funds would help, says BC research center

By Darla Mercado
NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 08, 2013
SEC gets a boost to fund adviser oversight in Obama budget

Extra $256 million would allow agency to hire hundreds of examiners.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 08, 2013
White gets Senate committee nod for SEC chief

Crapo cites her commitment to economic analysis of rules.

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 08, 2013
White: I'll crunch numbers before shaping fiduciary rule

But SEC chair nominee says some benefits can't be quantified

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 07, 2013
Judge denies Wells Fargo bid as MedCap suit rolls on

By DJAMIESON
NEWS FIXED INCOME APR 07, 2013
Stockton bankruptcy sends chilly message to muni bondholders

Pensioners bump muni bonds from senior debt status

By Jeff Benjamin
NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 07, 2013
Tax reform draft aimed at pass-through businesses

Proposal would more closely align treatment of partnerships and S Corps

By AOSTERLAND
NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 07, 2013
Goble's ghost may haunt SEC

Lawyers are worried that the main statute used to prosecute Richard Goble for fraud in 2008 has been undercut by a federal appellate court decision

By DJAMIESON
NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 07, 2013
Charges tossed, but Finra gadfly not home-free yet

By DJAMIESON
NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 07, 2013
Appeals court sides with Finra critic

Overturns Goble's fraud conviction; lifetime ban from securities industry now up in the air

By DJAMIESON
NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 05, 2013
Ex-Finra employee: I was fired for whistle blowing

A onetime Finra examiner says he uncovered a glitch in the SRO's risk-rating system — and was subsequently fired for threatening to go public with the discovery. Now, he's suing for $25M.

By Gregory Crawford