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INDUSTRY 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
INDUSTRY 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
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 07, 2010
Fiduciary Q&A: Everything advisers, brokers and agents should know

By Mark Bruno
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
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 07, 2010
SEC says securitizers must have 'skin in the game'

Schapiro lays out new rules requiring asset-backed issuers to retain five percent of asset-backed securitizers

By Bloomberg
Adviser at center of Okla. hoops probe leaves Merrill, joins Raymond James
INDUSTRY 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
INDUSTRY 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
INDUSTRY 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
INDUSTRY 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
RIAS 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
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 07, 2010
Former broker hits Wells Fargo Advisors with discrimination claim

A former broker with Wells Fargo Advisors of St. Louis has sued the firm for sex discrimination.

By Dan Jamieson
This is how inflation begins
INDUSTRY 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
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
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
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
INDUSTRY NEWS APR 06, 2010
TD Bank's profit soars in 1Q -- despite a dip at TD Ameritrade

By Associated Press
INDUSTRY 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
INDUSTRY 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
INDUSTRY NEWS APR 05, 2010
Federal Reserve holds rates at record lows, brews internal dissent

The Federal Reserve repeats its pledge to hold interest rates at record lows to foster the economic recovery and ease high unemployment.

By Associated Press