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RIAS RIA NEWS AUG 22, 2010
Finra proxy proposals may well wind up in the circular file

Corporate-governance experts think that seven proposals designed to make Finra disclose more information and give members a say on executive compensation may never be implemented — even though 67% of Finra member firms that participated in the vote approved them.

By Dan Jamieson
RIAS RIA NEWS AUG 22, 2010
Stocks, commodities march to beat of same drummer

By Darla Mercado
RIAS PRACTICE MANAGEMENT AUG 20, 2010
JPMorgan adds 300 financial advisers

JPMorgan Chase & Co. had a big third quarter, with profits spiking by 23% -- but it also appears to have had a successful quarter, and year, recruiting financial advisers.

By InvestmentNews Staff
RIAS RIA NEWS AUG 20, 2010
Provident Royalties exec pleads guilty in $485M fraud

One of the owners of the defunct oil and gas dealmaker Provident Royalties LLC has pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud investors in a $485 million scheme that ensnared dozens of independent broker-dealers.

By Bruce Kelly
INVESTING ALTERNATIVES AUG 20, 2010
Gross urges 'full nationalization' of housing finance

Bill Gross, who runs the world's biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., said the U.S. should consider “full nationalization” of the mortgage- finance system.

By Bloomberg
INVESTING ETFS AUG 20, 2010
London calling: UK's ETF Securities plans big commodities push in U.S.

A London-based provider of exchange-traded funds is planning to launch 18 commodities-based ETFs and a precious-metals basket ETF.

By Bloomberg
RIAS RIA NEWS AUG 19, 2010
U.S. stocks decline as S&P 500 heads for lowest close in a month

U.S. stocks retreated, with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index poised for the lowest close in a month, as jobless claims increased to the highest level since November and an index of Philadelphia-area manufacturing fell.

By Bloomberg
Finra fines Merrill Lynch $2.5M in sales charge case
ADVISOR NEWS WIREHOUSES AUG 19, 2010
Finra fines Merrill Lynch $2.5M in sales charge case

The industry-sponsored group that oversees stock brokers fined Merrill Lynch $500,000 Wednesday for failing to provide sales charge discounts to eligible customers on certain investments.

By Associated Press
RIAS RIA NEWS AUG 19, 2010
Bill Gross: How to play the yield curve

Bill Gross is realizing outsized gains by benefitting from the near record difference in yields between short- and longer-maturity bonds while preaching that investors should prepare for lower-than-average returns.

By Bloomberg
ADVISOR NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 19, 2010
Why the world needs the uber-wealthy

My colleagues in the business press lavish an extraordinary amount of space on the world's richest people,which is altogether fitting and proper, considering how much they can teach us about the important matters of life.

By Bloomberg
RIAS RIA NEWS AUG 19, 2010
Cetera snags another high-profile exec

Susan Theder jumps from Pershing to hybrid firm owned by Lightyear Capital; will oversee marketing efforts

By Bloomberg
RIAS RIA NEWS AUG 19, 2010
Citigroup: Financial bill will make largest banks bigger

New rules will make it tougher for smaller financial-services companies to compete.

By Bloomberg
RIAS RIA NEWS AUG 19, 2010
Dallas broker SWS Group reports 57% drop in fiscal 4Q profit

SWS Group, Inc., a Dallas-based broker-dealer and correspondent clearing firm, said its fiscal fourth-quarter net income fell 57% on impairment to the value of two large stock holdings, foreclosed property expenses at a banking unit and lower clearing and investment banking revenue.

By Jed Horowitz
Why is Wall Street like a church? Buffett supplies the answer
ADVISOR NEWS WIREHOUSES AUG 18, 2010
Why is Wall Street like a church? Buffett supplies the answer

Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said Wall Street is like a church that benefits society, then falters by operating a gambling venture on the side.

By Bloomberg
RIAS RIA NEWS AUG 18, 2010
Second recession? Bull, says Warren Buffett

Berkshire Hathaway boss all pumped up about U.S. economy; 'night and day' from a year ago

By Bloomberg
RIAS RIA NEWS AUG 18, 2010
Investor pessimism? Hop on stocks, says Kenneth Fisher

Billionaire investor says now is the time to get into the market; commodity producers particularly attractive

By Bloomberg
RIAS RIA NEWS AUG 18, 2010
U.S. faces 'painful period' due to debt, says Berkshire's Sokol

The next five years will be tough, as homeowners and governments unwind debt built up during the housing boom, Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s David Sokol said today.

By Bloomberg
Finra fines Morgan Stanley $800K over 'deficient conflict of interest' disclosures
ADVISOR NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION AUG 18, 2010
Finra fines Morgan Stanley $800K over 'deficient conflict of interest' disclosures

Morgan Stanley, owner of the world's largest brokerage, will pay $800,000 to settle regulatory claims that it didn't disclose research analysts' conflicts of interest to investors.

By Bloomberg
UBS will seek to have $81M Finra ruling overturned
ADVISOR NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION AUG 18, 2010
UBS will seek to have $81M Finra ruling overturned

UBS AG, the largest Swiss bank, will seek to reverse a ruling requiring it to pay a U.S. company for business lost when its funds were tied up during the collapse of the auction-rate securities market two years ago.

By Bloomberg
Citi continues to purge U.S. Trust advisers
RIAS RIA NEWS AUG 18, 2010
Citi continues to purge U.S. Trust advisers

Citi Private Bank, the private-banking unit of Citigroup Inc., continues its aggressive recruiting from U.S. Trust and has now lured a total of 10 bankers from the Bank of America unit since the end of April.

By Hilary Johnson