FDIC

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  Time to Consider Alternatives to Money-Market Funds

  By Brian Schreiner  |  September 25, 2012

  They’ve been go-to funds for decades, but in recent years just about everything in the investment world has changed and money funds are no exception.

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  AIG Stock Sale Could Trigger Federal Regulation

  By Arthur D. Postal PropertyCasualty360.com  |  September 11, 2012

  American International Group is on the verge of becoming the first insurance holding company ever regulated by the federal government.

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  SEC Enforcement Roundup: Radio Financial Guru Charged

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  September 6, 2012

  Recent SEC enforcement actions include charges against a California man who tipped off a hedge fund manager with inside information and a radio personality who misled investors about an investing plan.

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  Fiduciary Rule Could Be Years Away: Industry Experts

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  August 22, 2012

  Knut Rostad, president of the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard, told AdvisorOne on Wednesday that regulators will most likely "continue to punt" the fiduciary issue.

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  Sandy Weill Wants Banks Small Again, Chris Dodd Wants Them Big

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  July 26, 2012

  If politics makes strange bedfellows, it also makes for strange adversaries.

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  On Dodd-Frank’s 2nd Birthday, Should Investors Celebrate?

  By Knut A. Rostad  |  July 20, 2012

  Individual investors have not witnessed dramatic regulatory changes favoring investors over the past two years, but they seem to be voting with their assets, moving them more toward fiduciary advisors.

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  ‘Living Wills’ Expose Banks’ Fragility, but Won’t Forestall Disaster

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  June 28, 2012

  Sunday is the deadline for the biggest banks to submit "living wills" providing regulators a roadmap to break them up if the financial system is threatened. But Simon Johnson says the time to break up too-big-to-fail banks is now.

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  Unfinished Business: Dodd-Frank’s Many Questions

  By Nicole Gelinas  |  June 27, 2012

  On July 21, 2010, President Obama signed the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, known as Dodd-Frank, into law. Two years on, uncertainty abounds about the legislation’s meaning and impact.

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  3 Major Changes to 529 Plans

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  May 29, 2012

  States have been lowering fees and adding FDIC-insured CDs, among other notable adjustments of which advisors should be aware.

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  FDIC Warns on Risks of Market-Linked CDs

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 22, 2012

  A new consumer alert from the FDIC on market-linked CDs, one of the most popular structured products, counsels investors not to let the possibility of higher returns obscure their view of the risks.