Liz Skinner

Liz Skinner is Special Projects Editor for InvestmentNews and Editor of ESG Clarity US. She has been a financial reporter and editor at InvestmentNews for 10 years. Liz joined InvestmentNews after five years as a reporter for Bloomberg News, where she covered the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and other business news out of the nation’s capital. Off the clock, she’s raising two fearless girls and enjoys running, ice-skating and traveling to as many cities and beaches as possible. She has an MA in Environmental Resource Policy from George Washington University and you can connect with her on Twitter @SkinnerLiz.

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Ex-FPA prez to Congress: Clients looking to earn less to avoid tax hit
NEWS RIAS APR 18, 2011
Ex-FPA prez to Congress: Clients looking to earn less to avoid tax hit

Johannessen says proposed 39.6% top marginal rate spooking more-affluent filers

INVESTING ETFS APR 14, 2011
Actively managed ETFs likely to surge

The market for actively managed exchange-traded funds has been slow to take off, but the funds' assets may swell once they have a few years of performance to tout, observers said.

UBS to shell out $10.75M to settle Lehman-related row
INVESTING FIXED INCOME APR 10, 2011
UBS to shell out $10.75M to settle Lehman-related row

UBS Financial Services Inc. has agreed to pay $10.75 million in fines and restitution to settle Finra allegations that its advisers misled clients about the “principal protection” feature of a Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. bond product sold a few months before that firm filed for bankruptcy.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION APR 10, 2011
Wells Fargo to pay $11.2M in case of alleged overpricing

Home loan giant Wells Fargo & Co. has agreed to pay $11.2 million to settle federal securities charges involving mortgage-based investments that Wachovia Capital Markets LLC sold to the Zuni American Indian tribe and other investors

NEWS RIAS MAR 31, 2011
ADV overhaul: Plain English is Greek to some advisers

Many financial advisers are finding out that they aren't as fluent in English as they thought

NEWS RIAS MAR 31, 2011
Profiling? Advisers get more time to work up bios of staff

Advisers have an additional four months to prepare “plain English” brochure supplements about their investment personnel thanks to an extension granted by the Securities and Exchange Commission late last month.

RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING MAR 29, 2011
Salaries inching up for entry-level financial advisers

With the economy seemingly on the mend, newbie financial advisers are finding that it's a great time to be breaking into the game

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS MAR 24, 2011
Advisers want sprinkles on plain-vanilla 529s

When it comes to Section 529 college savings plans, financial advisers say they wish they had more choices

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION MAR 21, 2011
Regulators warn about yen scams

Events in Japan have fraudsters pulling increasing number of Forex scams

RETIREMENT TAX MAR 20, 2011
Charitable giving on the upswing after falling in 2009

Foundations, donor funds cite evidence that wallets are beginning to open