Many pension consultants fail to disclose conflicts of interest to their clients and accept undisclosed compensation from money managers and brokerages, according to the results of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission study, which were released this morning.
The Dodd Frank legislation aimed to change this, by requiring the Securities and Exchange Commission to study the possibility of having something called the fiduciary standard, that is, the requirement to act in their clients best interests, apply to all sellers of financial services, not just investment advisers as the law currently reads.
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The government will also study using foreign exchange reserves to prepay debt.
Under the Dodd-Frank financial reform act, which Wall Street and brokers abhor, the wise drafters of the law asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to study a uniform fiduciary code for brokers.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched an in-depth study of issues surrounding high-speed trading and is considering several proposals to monitor it.
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The study noted that in 2002 the exchange had one-third more new listings than in 2001, a total of 117 IPOs, despite a decline at virtually all other exchanges worldwide.
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Advance the study of ecological sustainability and promote the open exchange and wide application of the knowledge acquired.
It was particularly noteworthy insofar as it permitted a vigorous exchange of views between three of the authors of the Center study -- former four-star General John Foss (USA, Ret..) , former Under Secretary of State Eugene V.
The example I have in mind now is my study of the international adjustment mechanisms under fixed and floating exchange rates.
Aug. 31, 2012: American announces that it has signed an agreement to exchange confidential financial information with US Airways so that the two can study a potential merger.
The McClellan Oscillator, a statistical study of money entering and leaving the New York Stock Exchange, closed at -317 on Wednesday, the most oversold reading since May 20, 2010, when it reached -420.
The Foundation also implements the Fellowship for International Understanding programme to facilitate the exchange of information, expertise and experiences between the Philippines and other countries through study visits by the awardees of the Search for Outstanding Teachers.
My choices to study English Literature and Humanities at Valparaiso University, and then at their UK exchange programme in Cambridge, England, meant that I was more interested in learning and thinking than finding a job.
America is good at looking after its servicemen's health and, in exchange, many of those airmen have agreed to be part of a long-term medical study that looks at all sorts of health-related questions.
The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets sent a letter this week to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Mary Schapiro announcing their intention to hold hearings to consider the recent SEC staff study which proposed fundamentally changing the regulatory regime for investment advisers and broker-dealers.
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We'll begin with a study conducted by the RAND Institute for Civil Justice and commissioned by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2008.
"If GM, Ford and Chrysler were fully competitive with the Japanese in every other respect, the exchange rate would still put them at a crushing disadvantage, " says Laurie Harbour-Felax, author of a study that analyzes Detroit's competitiveness.
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