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RIA NEWS APR 08, 2010
TAXES: IRA charitable-gift extension included in tax extenders bill

The bill passed by the Senate last month that extends expiring tax breaks includes a provision affecting individual retirement accounts.

By mlanche
Spoils for sale: Accused Ponzi schemer's 'oddball' car collection auctioned off
RETIREMENT PLANNING APR 08, 2010
Spoils for sale: Accused Ponzi schemer's 'oddball' car collection auctioned off

An eager crowd of about 700 bidders showed up at a North Salt Lake warehouse for a most unusual auction

By Mark Bruno
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT APR 08, 2010
Advisers turning to study groups for support

More than ever, they want advice on hiring, firing and other practice-management issues

By Lisa Shidler
REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE APR 07, 2010
Former ING adviser, tripped up by surprise audit, could get 8 years for fraud

Federal prosecutors are seeking an eight-year sentence for a Kirkland, Wash., financial adviser who stole more than $12 million from 42 clients.

By InvestmentNews Staff
RIA NEWS APR 07, 2010
Pimco's El-Erian: Greek crisis endangers private sector

I suggested last week, in what seemed like a counter-intuitive phenomenon to some, that sharply lower prices for Greek bonds would bring out sellers rather than buyers.

By Mark Bruno
SEC: Real estate trade group exec ran investment scam
RIA NEWS APR 07, 2010
SEC: Real estate trade group exec ran investment scam

Renee Brown is president of the Real Estate Securities Investment Association. She also co-founded a due diligence firm.This week, the SEC charged her with bilking investors

By Bruce Kelly
RETIREMENT PLANNING APR 07, 2010
Images of the day: Following suicide attempt, star adviser comes clean

Rhonda Breard, 47, promoted her financial expertise in television infomercials and in $49 seminars at local community colleges. Beginning in 2004, she started encouraging clients to take money out of certain accounts and turn it over to her — supposedly for new investments.

By Mark Bruno
Adviser at center of Okla. hoops probe leaves Merrill, joins Raymond James
RIA NEWS APR 07, 2010
Adviser at center of Okla. hoops probe leaves Merrill, joins Raymond James

Jeffrey Hausinger switches firms following allegations that he gave money to Oklahoma Sooners' basketball star Keith “Tiny” Gallon

By InvestmentNews Staff
RIA NEWS APR 07, 2010
How to play the 'other Japan Inc.'

Japan's stock market has attracted as much “new blood” as the U.S. in the past 10 years.

By Taizo Ishida
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES APR 07, 2010
Insurers dead set against life settlement securitization

The American Council of Life Insurers is asking policymakers to bar the securitization of life settlements.

By John Goff
RIA NEWS APR 07, 2010
Raymond James hit for $12M in raiding case over ex-A.G. Edwards reps

Raymond James & Associates Inc. was ordered by an arbitration panel to pay Wells Fargo Advisors LLC $12.1 million in a case involving claims of broker raiding.

By Dan Jamieson
RIA NEWS APR 07, 2010
Nikkei on a roll, hits 15-month high

Japan's Nikkei stock index climbed to a 15-month high Monday as a weaker yen boosted exporters while shares in troubled Japan Airlines Corp. surged 31 percent from a record low on hopes for extra government funding.

By Associated Press
RIA NEWS APR 07, 2010
One year later, full examination of crisis lacking

A year after the financial equivalent of Hurricane Katrina struck, damaging the world's economies, devastating the major capital markets and demolishing major financial institutions, it is worthwhile to examine

By MFXFeeder
This is how inflation begins
RIA NEWS APR 06, 2010
This is how inflation begins

Not surprisingly, it often starts with a geometric rise in government debt. Sound familiar?

By Jeffrey D. Saut
WIREHOUSES APR 06, 2010
Recruiting tug of war: The internal brokerage battle

Within the individual brokerage firms, there is an ongoing tug of war going on. On one side are Branch Managers who are put under pressure to hire.

By DSARCH
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS APR 06, 2010
Sykes letter to IN: Closure of GunnAllen was a surprise

<i>The following is a letter from John Sykes, the largest single shareholder in defunct broker-dealer GunnAllen Financial, in response to this question posed by InvestmentNews news editor Bruce Kelly late last month: &#8220;What happened at GunnAllen?&#8221;</i>

By Mark Bruno
LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES APR 06, 2010
HSAs a health care reform winner?

HSA deposits are expected to top $14 billion in assets this year, up from $1 billion in 2006

By Bloomberg
RIA NEWS APR 06, 2010
TD Bank's profit soars in 1Q -- despite a dip at TD Ameritrade

By Associated Press
RIA NEWS APR 05, 2010
Bear Stearns honchos grilled on collapse

Executives testified today that they did all they could to keep Bear Stearns

By Associated Press
RIA NEWS APR 05, 2010
Buybacks, job report likely to push stocks even higher

The stock market has been on some run of late, with the S&amp;P 500 index up nearly 5% in the first quarter. With cash-rich corporates eyeing stock buybacks, expect more of the same.

By John Goff