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NEWS RIAS APR 25, 2013
Breaking away: $400M Merrill team departs, forms RIA

Suburban St. Louis firm will use Dynasty platform

NEWS RIAS APR 24, 2013
Hybrid advisers may have skewed report on commission business

Head-scratching results could be from research firm's confusing categories.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 24, 2013
Finra proposes wider release of complaints

Finra wants to make the investing public aware of pending regulatory complaints against brokers. Some industry observers say the plan could do serious harm to innocent advisers.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 24, 2013
Schwab wins 'huge' ruling on class-action waivers

A Finra panel on Thursday freed Charles Schwab Corp. to use class-action waivers with customers. That sound you hear? Printers at other brokerages busily cranking out arbitration agreements.

NEWS BROKER DEALERS APR 23, 2013
Stifel turns tables on Wells Fargo with 'scorched earth' claim

Brokers have been battling over recruiting for six years; Stifel CEO sees vendetta.

NEWS WIREHOUSES APR 17, 2013
Court backs brokerages in forcing employees to hold accounts in-house

Appeals court in California says brokerage firms can force employees to hold accounts in-house, that flexibility in in trading policies rules.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 17, 2013
Finra appeals loss in Schwab arbitration case

Don't crank out those arb contracts just yet. Finra is challenging a ruling that OK'd waiver contracts, in which a client signs away the right to file a class-action lawsuit.

NEWS RIAS APR 17, 2013
Regulator wants SEC to consider banning pre-dispute agreements

Massachusetts' top securities cop says clients of RIAs shouldn't be precluded from going to court

NEWS RIAS APR 14, 2013
Brightscope girds to release prices

NEWS RIAS APR 14, 2013
RIAs seek to grow by gobbling up others