Luis Aguilar

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  In Money Market Fund Reform, FSOC Must Act Carefully: Dechert

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  November 1, 2012

  Treasury Secretary Geithner's proposal seeks to have the FSOC make recommendations for fund reform before it has established a fair process, Dechert says.

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  SEC Beefs Up Enforcement With New Tools

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  October 23, 2012

  The SEC is stepping up surveillance of insider trading with its new Automated Bluesheet Analysis Project, and is catching more hedge fund advisor fraud with its aberrational performance inquiry team.

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  SEC’s Aguilar Calls for Harsher Penalties Against Repeat Fraudsters

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  October 19, 2012

  The SEC must re-evaluate the strength of its initial settlements and “specifically design” a program to combat repeat fraudsters, SEC Commissioner Luis Aguilar said.

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  Fight to Reform Money Market Funds Continues

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  September 25, 2012

  Regulators’ fight to reform money market funds continues.

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  Sen. Corker: SEC Nearing a Money-Market Fund Solution

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  September 18, 2012

  The senator urged the SEC in a letter to move ahead with further reform, saying “a run on money-market funds is still a real risk.”

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  SEC’s GOP Commissioners Offer ‘Way Forward’ on Money-Market Reform

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  August 29, 2012

  The SEC's two Republican commissioners voiced their “dismay” on Tuesday with the statement issued last week by Chairwoman Mary Schapiro ending her money-market fund reform push.

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  New SEC Committee to Put Retail Investors First

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  June 12, 2012

  “Many individual investors feel like they are under siege,” SEC Commissioner Luis Aguilar said at the group's first meeting.

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  Bachus’ SRO Bill Blasted by Government Watchdog

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  May 29, 2012

  The nonpartisan Project on Government Oversight told Reps. Spencer Bachus and Barney Frank in a letter on Tuesday that it opposes Bachus’ bill to create an advisor SRO.

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  SEC’s Aguilar to IAA: SRO Is Still ‘Not the Best Choice’

  By Janet Levaux, AdvisorOne  |  April 27, 2012

  The commissioner tells the IAA that he also believes in the strictest definition of fiduciary and sees his role as protecting the interests of "hardworking" investors.

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  Fiduciary Duty Rule: A Status Report One Year Later

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  January 20, 2012

  January 21 marks the one-year anniversary of the SEC handing over to Congress its report under Section 913 of Dodd-Frank recommending that brokers adhere to a fiduciary duty.