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SEC lets whistle-blowers bypass internal programs
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JUL 27, 2011
SEC lets whistle-blowers bypass internal programs

Whistle-blowers can collect as much as 30% of penalties when they report wrongdoing, even when they bypass their internal complaint systems.

By Doug Cubberley
With registration looming, many hedge funds say they'll follow Soros
ALTERNATIVES JUL 26, 2011
With registration looming, many hedge funds say they'll follow Soros

With registration requirements looming, more hedge fund managers are likely to follow George Soros in opting for the family office structure over the red tape of running a hedge fund.

By Jeff Benjamin
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JUL 26, 2011
Ketchum on exams, VAs and fiduciary standard

By mlanche
Fund firms on 401(k) fee disclosure deadline: More time, please
RETIREMENT PLANNING JUL 26, 2011
Fund firms on 401(k) fee disclosure deadline: More time, please

DOL's latest start date — Jan. 1 — still too soon, industry group contends

By Darla Mercado
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JUL 26, 2011
Phyllis Borzi: Protecting the Everyman's benefits

Phyllis Borzi has come a long way since her days as a high school English teacher.

By Liz Skinner
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JUL 26, 2011
Securities America settles with state in conditional resolution of Reg D mess

Putting an end to a bitter dispute over the sale of failed private placements, Securities America Inc. has agreed to make whole 63 Massachusetts clients who bought $5 million of failed notes issued by Medical Capital Holdings Inc.

By Bruce Kelly
Finra's Ketchum to B-Ds: Structured products need strict policing
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JUL 25, 2011
Finra's Ketchum to B-Ds: Structured products need strict policing

Finra president Richard Ketchum says brokerages must make certain reps understand how complex financial instruments work -- before hawking them to clients.

By Bruce Kelly
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JUL 25, 2011
Finra, Nuveen agree to $3M settlement over marketing of auction-rate preferred securities

Regulator claims marketing material produced by B-D was misleading; settlement reached

By Jessica Toonkel
Big rise in Finra lobbying $$$
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JUL 25, 2011
Big rise in Finra lobbying $$$

Industry regulator shelled out more than $300K in first quarter; entire financial industry spending big bucks bending ears

By Dan Jamieson
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JUL 25, 2011
Brokers charge Finra with becoming OATS mill

Brokers are up in arms about what they say is an increasing number of fines for innocent trade-reporting errors.

By Dan Jamieson
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JUL 24, 2011
Arbitration case costs Neuberger $4 million

Neuberger Berman Group LLC, a money manager that was part of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., was ordered by an industry regulator to pay about $4 million to three clients who bought structured notes backed by the failed investment bank

By Bloomberg
Debt drama obscuring great plays in the stock market: Hartford's Carmen
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JUL 22, 2011
Debt drama obscuring great plays in the stock market: Hartford's Carmen

HMOs, even Apple undervalued, fund manager says; mess in Washington will get straightened out

By Jeff Benjamin
Boehner, GOP bigs all voted for debt drivers they now blame on Obama
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JUL 22, 2011
Boehner, GOP bigs all voted for debt drivers they now blame on Obama

Like the President, Republican leaders gave thumbs up to TARP, prescription drug plan, foreign wars; 'plenty of blame to go around'

By John Goff
Neuberger Berman loses $4M Finra arbitration case
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JUL 22, 2011
Neuberger Berman loses $4M Finra arbitration case

Neuberger Berman Group LLC, the money manager that was part of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., was ordered by an industry regulator to pay about $4 million to three clients who bought structured notes backed by the failed investment bank.

By Mark Bruno
SIFMA gives SEC ideas for a new fiduciary standard
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JUL 21, 2011
SIFMA gives SEC ideas for a new fiduciary standard

Letter details how a universal standard could accommodate brokers

By Doug Cubberley
State regulators aren't nuts about souped-up ETFs
ETFS JUL 20, 2011
State regulators aren't nuts about souped-up ETFs

Leveraged and inverse funds over the head of the average investor, NASAA warns; plenty of fees, too

By Bloomberg
ALTERNATIVES JUL 19, 2011
David Lerner Associates sued over sales of REITs

David Lerner Associates Inc. has been sued by investors who claim that it acted negligently in the sale and underwriting of more than $6.8 billion in shares of the Apple Real Estate Investment Trusts

By Bloomberg
Politicos fiddle while bond market burns
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JUL 18, 2011
Politicos fiddle while bond market burns

Negative yields return, corporate debt's spurned, and money funds churn, as panicked investors seek out less-risky paper

By William D. Cohan
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JUL 18, 2011
A slow go

In the initial year of Dodd-Frank, which reaches its first anniversary Thursday, regulators overseeing banking, commodities and securities have been pressed to conduct 73 studies and write 400 new rules. As of July 1, only 38 of those rules have been finalized.

By Mark Bruno
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JUL 17, 2011
Wedbush ordered to pay $3.5M for 'morally reprehensible failure'

Wedbush Securities Inc. was ordered to pay former municipal bond trader Stephen Kelleher $3.5 million for failing to give him years' worth of incentive-based compensation he was owed

By Liz Skinner