When a business partnership is new and everybody is toasting the new team, nobody thinks much about the legal agreements the partners just signed. In the subsequent months, even years, these documents tend to gather dust in a drawer. However, once...
The last couple of years have been hell on anyone who owns stock. And someone must pay. Rightly or wrongly, that person typically is you. Case in point: the rate of NASD arbitration cases is expected to increase nearly 35 percent in 2002 compared...
t's hand-to-hand combat.” “We're in a battle for our lives.” “We've been taking incoming for two years nonstop.” These are just a handful of the military metaphors bandied about by financial professionals these days.
You're all set for that TV news interview. You've prepped, you're pumped and you've told your friends to tune in. Then you get the dreaded call from compliance. The interview is off, they say. Your firm won't let you talk to the press. The...