Pershing Co-CIO Announces 3 Big Technology Initiatives
By James J. GreenLucille Mayer steps into Suresh Kumars shoes and touts NetX360 for end clients, next-gen managed accounts and complete business solutions.
June 06, 2012
SEC Funding Boost ‘Not Going to Happen’: SRO Bill Co-SponsorOpponents of Rep. Spencer Bachus bill calling for a SRO to oversee advisors had their hopes that the SEC would receive a boost in funding in order to thwart an SRO quashed on Wednesday.
June 06, 2012
Are Ketchum’s Arguments for SRO the Best FINRA Can Come Up With?My response to reading the FINRA chiefs testimony before Congress on advisor SRO: Really, dude?
June 06, 2012
Figures Don’t Lie. Well, Actually, Sometimes They DoLike, for instance, on why paying a 1% annual fee for managing your assets is, in fact, not such a bad deal.
June 05, 2012
Exclusive: Biggest SEC Enforcement Effort Is Advisor MisconductIn exclusive interview, former SEC enforcement official Kaplan says agency had doubled actions against advisors to investment vehicles, especially private funds, with more scrutiny to come.
June 05, 2012
FINRA Says Brookstone ‘Preyed on Elderly’ With Unsuitable CMOsFINRA hearing panel hits Brookstone, its CEO and a broker for $2.6 million in fines and restitution for fraudulent sales of packaged mortgages.
June 01, 2012
Combatants Gear Up for SRO HearingTheir collective rallying cry: an SRO isnt neededparticularly if that SRO is FINRA. What to do instead? Fund the SEC so that it can conduct more frequent advisor exams.
June 01, 2012
Focus Financial’s Colony Group to Merge With Mintz LevinFocus Financial Partners announced that partner firm The Colony Group will merge with Mintz Levin Financial Advisors under the Colony name.