If the SEC needs $1.5 billion to pursue an expanded mandate, Mary Schapiro's Congressional opponents are now suggesting that maybe that mandate simply needs to stop expanding.
News that UBS is in trouble again -- this time for allegedly manipulating interest rates -- was all the rage among independent-minded advisors yesterday and will undoubtedly raise new questions about the big banks' ethics.
According to a much-touted survey from Russell Investments, 75% of all the advisors out there expect to bump up their revenue this year by 10% or more, but there are questions about how everyone can do that at once.
The stink of anything Madoff-related has gotten at least two of the banks that set up "feeder funds" for him to challenge a court order to protect their employees from reprisals.
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