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Ron Rhoades:  It is one thing to lobby and inform. It is quite another to orchestrate group boycotts, which are an anti-competitive practice.

Ron Rhoades tells Ira Hammerman that his response on SIFMA's behalf failed to address the 'undeniable' -- the threat of boycotts

The Kentucky professor schools the Washington lobbyist on the looming threat of broker-dealers forcing reps to sacrifice their CFP designations -- and questions Hammerman's math on 'one million employees' he claims to speak on 'behalf' of

June 20, 2019 at 6:37 PM

Ira Hammerman: His column ignores entirely the merits of SIFMA’s recent comments about fiduciary regulatory initiatives. [Photo by LAI Video.]

Securities industry lobbyist Ira Hammerman disputes Ron Rhoades claim broker-dealers may restrain trade by threatening to boycott states with local fiduciary rules

The SIFMA executive vice president and general counsel says neither his organization, nor its constituents, runs afoul of anti-trust laws

June 20, 2019 at 2:37 AM

Brian Hamburger: We were only privy to their regular weekly updates, other firms received the privilege of additional information in advance of those updates.

SIFMA helps oust Bressler, Amery & Ross PC after alleged duplicity -- but weak pledge by replacement means 'issue' remains

Known DOL-rule naysayer Capital Forensics steps in to keep Broker Protocol list and draws immediate fire for stopping short of promise to avoid conflicts

January 31, 2018 at 7:59 PM

Paul Tramontano: Whenever we have a process or a system going exactly the way we want it, I tell my staff to break it and rebuild it.

$5 billion and $12 billion RIA principals tell worthy anecdotes (hint, Madoff), reveal secrets, to Barron's moderator at IMCA

Paul Tramontano and Ric Edelman topped a bill that offered a barn-burning tax talk from Kitces

May 9, 2014 at 4:19 AM

Dan Moisand: They have the opportunity to stop it, or screw it up worse than they already have.

Fearful that the SEC has been overworked, lobbied and bullied into a SIFMA stupor, fiduciary crowd launches 16-page missile

Among other things, the letter calls SIFMA's idea of a uniform fiduciary standard a 'broker sales standard'

April 13, 2012 at 3:44 AM

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