John Taft

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  RBC Wealth Names Catie Tobin to Run BD Clearing, RIA Custody Operation

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  November 1, 2010

  RBC Wealth Management announced Tuesday that Mike Kavanagh, chief administrative officer and head of RBC Correspondent and Advisor Services, will retire and be replaced by Catie Tobin.

• A Project Worthy of Erasmus

  By Robert Tyndall  |  October 1, 2010

  Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, the great scholar of the Dutch Renaissance, demonstrated 150 ways of phrasing the Latin sentence, Tuae literae me magnopere delectarunt ("Your...

• SIFMA Panel Discusses Fiduciary Duty for Brokers

  By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne  |  July 16, 2010

  Emotions were running high at the final breakout session of the day at the SIFMA Regulatory Reform Summit in New York.

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  Coming Together: The Fiduciary Standard and the NFL

  By Knut A. Rostad  |  July 13, 2010

  Can two standards of conduct be "harmonized" as successfully as were the old AFL and NFL?

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  A Tail is Not a Leg

  By Knut A. Rostad  |  October 16, 2009

  As the rhetoric heats up over regulatory reform one is reminded how much political life has not changed all that much since Abraham Lincoln was quoted noting the following: "How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four..."

• SIFMA Elects Directors

  By Staff Writer  |  December 20, 2006

  The Securities Industry and Financial Services Association (SIFMA), announced December 20 that it has elected a Board of Directors, the same slate that was proposed at the November SIFMA Launch in Boca Raton, Florida, and nominated officers for whom it is expected that the Board will vote at its meeting...

• Schilffarth-Schnoll Team Moves to RBC Dain

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  October 1, 2006

  The team of Richard Schilffarth and Howard Schnoll, known for their pioneering work in separately managed accounts, is joining the Milwaukee office of RBC Dain...