MF Global

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  SEC Enforcement Roundup: $300M Resort Scam Leads to Rum-Soaked Investment

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  January 31, 2013

  Among other enforcement actions this week, the SEC charged five former real estate executives in a $300 million Ponzi scheme involving phony investments in resorts. The spoils went toward boats, planes and a rum distillery.

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  Baha, a Gundlach Star, Recalls DoubleLine’s Stormy Beginnings

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  January 30, 2013

  "There is a 'revenge is sweet' factor, but there was also a religious and spiritual element," Baha recalled about life after TCW..

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  Barney Frank Introduces Bill to Merge SEC and CFTC

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  November 29, 2012

  Frank, who introduced the legislation with Rep. Mike Capuano, D-Mass., said that "now that the basic policies have been adopted to cover security and derivatives regulation, we can focus on the structural issue” of merging the two agencies.

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  Corzine Sharply Criticizes House Panel’s MF Global Report

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  November 15, 2012

  Jon Corzine, former chief of MF Global, sharply criticized a House Subcommittee report that claims he is to blame for MF Global’s collapse.

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  Corzine Caused MF Global to Tank, House Panel Reports

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  November 14, 2012

  Decisions by Jon Corzine to chart a “radically different course for MF Global and try to turn the 230-year-old commodities broker into a full-service investment bank,” were the main reason the firm went bankrupt, according to a House report.

• House Subcommittee Set to Release MF Global Collapse Report

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  November 13, 2012

  “Our investigation is essentially an autopsy of how MF Global came to its ultimate demise and what policy changes need to be made to prevent similar customer losses in the future,” said the subcommittee’s chairman, Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas.

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  House Subcommittee to Release Review of MF Global Collapse

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  October 31, 2012

  The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations said Wednesday that it expects to report the results of its yearlong investigation into the collapse of MF Global in the next few weeks.

• ‘Wall Street, We’ve Got a Problem,’ Says Wall Street

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  September 25, 2012

  Who thinks Wall Street has a reputation problem and that increased regulation is needed to restore trust in the financial services industry? Wall Street, that’s who.

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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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  ‘Antichrist’ at SEC, Dimon, Bush Among Villains of Financial Crisis: Tavakoli

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  August 29, 2012

  To Wall Street scourge Janet Tavakoli, the list of financial-crisis villains still evading responsibility is not short and includes, to name a few, Jamie Dimon, Jon Corzine, Tim Geithner, Mary Schapiro, George W. Bush, President Obama and the financial media.