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NEWS RIAS APR 15, 2010
Financial adviser to France's richest woman target of police search

Police searched the offices of the financial adviser to France's richest woman Friday as part of a growing scandal that includes allegations she gave cash illegally to President Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential campaign.

Former S&P exec: Revenue pressure skewed ratings
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 15, 2010
Former S&P exec: Revenue pressure skewed ratings

Tells Congressional panel that the push to land bank fees -- along with lax government oversight and breakdown in communications -- resulted in abuses

NEWS RIAS APR 15, 2010
Blog: Should I stay or should I go?

As more Branch Managers pick up and move to another firm, more and more advisers are quoting the classic 1981 song by The Clash while considering whether they should follow their old boss to greener pastures.

NEWS WIREHOUSES APR 15, 2010
Ex-Morgan Stanley broker to plead guilty in kickback scheme

A former broker for Morgan Stanley and Banc of America Securities LLC will plead guilty today to receiving kickbacks for his role in a stock-loan scheme that operated from March 2004 to December 2005, court records show.

Morgan Stanley took huge hit on real estate fund, report says
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 15, 2010
Morgan Stanley took huge hit on real estate fund, report says

Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund VI International said to be down 61% -- not suprising, given the fund was raised at the peak of the property boom

NEWS MUTUAL FUNDS APR 15, 2010
Finra cracks down on credit disclosure

Morgan Keegan fallout? The securities regulator warns B-Ds that bonds in funds cannot be considered 'rated' unless a third-party actually does the rating

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 15, 2010
Schwab CEO Walt Bettinger's pay drops 35%

Brokerage and investment manager Charles Schwab Corp. gave its CEO Walter Bettinger a pay package valued at $10 million last year, according to a regulatory filing made Tuesday.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 15, 2010
TD Ameritrade's Tomczyk: RIA business key to raising valuation of company

NEWS RETIREMENT PLANNING APR 15, 2010
Last-minute question on estate taxes or Roths? Ask our Tax Man

Randy Abeles from RSM McGladrey takes all of advisers' tax questions this week.

TD Ameritrade's Tomczyk: Still no plans to buy E*Trade
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 15, 2010
TD Ameritrade's Tomczyk: Still no plans to buy E*Trade

Tomczyk says discount brokerage still has no plan to buy E*Trade; the company could authorize a dividend at some point, however.

NEWS ALTERNATIVES APR 15, 2010
Evercore Partners buys private funds biz from Neuberger Berman

Evercore Partners Inc. said Wednesday that it has purchased Neuberger Berman's Private Funds Placement Group as it looks to expand its advisory services.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 15, 2010
ING broker-dealers' leading suitor is Don Marron's Lightyear Capital

The former Paine Webber chairman, who went all-out in failed bid for AIG's B-Ds, is said to have considerable interest in three of the ING Advisors Network broker-dealers

NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES APR 15, 2010
ING to spin off insurance operations

European services giant ING Groep NV said Monday it will split itself in two, spinning off its insurance arm to simplify its business and issuing €7.5 billion ($11.3 billion) in new shares to repay state bailout money.

NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES APR 15, 2010
ING money management unit could now be up for sale

ING Investment Management could go up for sale as part of parent ING Group's divestiture of its insurance business, according to ING spokesman Raymond Vermeulen.

NEWS WIREHOUSES APR 14, 2010
Broker who stole $780K from Merrill Lynch pleads guilty

Former Merrill Lynch & Co. broker Steven Mandala, who was charged with stealing $780,000 from the firm, partly to buy a Ferrari, pleaded guilty to grand larceny and identity theft, his lawyer said.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 14, 2010
Bank of America taps ex-Northrop exec for CFO post

Former Northrop Grumman exec Charles H. Noski succeeds Joe Price, head of BofA's consumer and small business banking division.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 14, 2010
Ben Stein: Investors goofed trusting big banks

'Wall Street was just lying their heads off to us,' says economist and former quiz show star

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 14, 2010
Baird hires longtime Smith Barney hand to open Oregon office

With the addition of David Perez, the Milwaukee-based Baird has now added 24 producers in a little more than three months. More coming?

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 14, 2010
Best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark buys seat on CBOE

Queen of Suspense purchases a seat on the Chicago Board Options Exchange for nearly $3M

FDIC shuts down four more banks
NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS APR 14, 2010
FDIC shuts down four more banks

The amount of toxic debt held by banks may be declining. But as the closure of four banks over the weekend showed, bad loans are still rippling through the financial system.