SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. economy has some shaky elements, but Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s track record still is rock solid, according to financial advisers, chief economists and other executives in the investments industry.
OTTAWA — In a confusing compromise, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and his peers from the provinces and territories agreed last Tuesday that the feds would set up a panel to study the creation of a single Canadian securities regulator.
WASHINGTON — Disclosures of 12(b)-1 fees should be made clearer and easier to decipher, but the fees themselves should not be abolished, officials from the mutual fund and brokerage industries said at a Securities and Exchange Commission round table last week.
Federal court trials have started for Gregory L. Reyes, former chief executive of Brocade Communications.
Compensating brokers for servicing mutual fund shareholders was anticipated by the SEC when it first adopted12(b)-1 fees in 1980.
WASHINGTON — Registered investment advisers are likely to outspend other financial intermediaries for compliance software, according to a recent report by Celent LLC, a Boston-based research and consulting firm.
WASHINGTON — U.S. investors could face reduced protections if the Securities and Exchange Commission loosens restrictions to allow foreign brokerage firms to offer securities in the United States, according to some speakers last week at a daylong SEC public meeting on cross-border regulation.
IRVINE, Calif. — A debate is brewing over the establishment of retail-sales-practice guidelines for structured products.
IRVINE, Calif. — NASD has dropped a controversial proposal to revamp its branch office definitions.
NEW YORK — Companies that provide training and manufacture software aimed at investment advisers expect to cash in on the recent demise of the broker-dealer exemption rule.
NEW YORK — The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. has adopted a revised version of its standards of professional conduct, placing a greater emphasis on the importance of fiduciary responsibility.
Principles-based rules won’t be a panacea for financial services and, in fact, could create more regulatory risk, some industry observers say. The concept of flexible rules is being pushed hard by business interests and regulators as the way to improve and modernize regulation.
Philanthropist and insurance tycoon Barry Kaye is bringing unwanted attention to a university that has benefited from his largess and to the life settlement industry.
WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission is on a roll in the courts — but not a good one.
WASHINGTON — Unions are hoping that pressure from Congress on private-equity funds will lead to better pay and benefits for workers, including more unionization.
NEW YORK — Sick and tired of complying with an increasingly complex regulatory framework, many financial advisers knowingly sidestep their firms’ compliance policies and sometimes show little regard for rules and regulations, according to a new survey of advisers and other financial services professionals.
State regulators are questioning whether some of the “harmonization” of rules of the regulatory operations of NASD and the New York Stock Exchange will harm investor protection
The Federal Reserve Board will consider new regulations to tighten mortgage-lending standards, said Fed chairman Ben Bernanke in a letter released Friday.
Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. has agreed to buy Nordic markets owner OMX AB for $3.7 billion, after failing on an earlier bid to purchase the London Stock Exchange.
Brokerage firms, preparing to transition existing customers into alternative fee programs, are putting the freeze on new fee-based brokerage accounts.
