U.S. House of Representatives

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  The Price of Everything: What’s the Value of Sound Advice?

  By Bob Clark, AdvisorOne  |  May 20, 2013

  The SEC Regulatory Accountability Act is yet another attempt by the securities industry to shift attention away from the consumer protections of requiring brokers to put the interests of their clients ahead of their own, by focusing solely on the “costs” of doing so.

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  SIFMA Names Former Sen. Gregg as CEO

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  May 20, 2013

  SIFMA announced Monday that former Sen. Judd Gregg has been appointed CEO and that Ken Bentsen, acting president and CEO, is now president.

• SIFMA Elects New Officers to Municipal Securities Division

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  November 2, 2012

  Stratford Shields of Morgan Stanley & Co. will serve as division chair, and Frank Fairman of Piper Jaffray & Co. and David Stephens of Bank of America Merrill Lynch & Co. will serve as vice chairs.

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  New Hire Roundup: TD Ameritrade Institutional Adds Dario

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  September 5, 2012

  Also this week in new hires, Joseph Nader joined Wescott Financial Advisory Group; Will Proctor went to a new spot at Neuberger Berman; and more.

• The STOCK Act’s Lameness

  By Ronald Delegge, ETFguide.com  |  May 24, 2012

  "Send me a bill that bans insider trading by members of Congress and I will sign it tomorrow,” President Obama proclaimed in his State of the Union on Jan. 24, 2012.

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  Congress Gets It Right

  By Jeff Joseph  |  February 1, 2012

  Private investment in private enterprise continues to be the primary creator of wealth in this country.

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  Is Inflation on the Way? Advisor Briefing for the Week of May 9, 2011

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  May 9, 2011

  Top market-moving news this week: measures of inflation, along with multiple congressional hearings.

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  SEC and the Fiduciary Study: Politics and the Fiduciary Standard

  By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne  |  April 1, 2011

  For a moment in fall 2009, it seemed that the Democratically controlled U.S. House of Representatives and Senate would duel over who could pass a stronger fiduciary standard.

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  SEC and the Fiduciary Study, Part II: Politics and the Fiduciary Standard

  By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne  |  January 23, 2011

  How financial services reform took a circuitous route that resulted in the compromise reform legislation known as Dodd Frank and the Jan. 22 SEC report to Congress.

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  Now That Omnibus Spending Bill Shelved, What Happens Next?

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  December 17, 2010

  “Since the Senate biggy was defeated [omnibus spending bill], I don’t think it will do a whole lot [on budget resolution] before recess,” says former Congressman Bill Frenzel (R-Minn.), now a guest scholar of economic studies at the Brookings Institution.