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Wall Street‘s self-regulating agency wants to increase its power over more financial advisory firms.

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s (FINRA) currently performs financial regulation of member brokerage firms and their employees but now with the endorsement of politicians like Rep. Spencer Bachus it’s pushing to regulate Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) which are currently regulated directly by the Federal and State …

Morgan Stanley is reportedly facing at least two lawsuits and a U.S. Senate Committee hearing, all stemming from the recent Facebook IPO debacle. The suits allege that analysts at Morgan Stanley (MS) had lowered their second-quarter and full-year forecasts for Facebook in the days ahead of the IPO and shared their findings via phone calls with certain institutional investors, …

Most investors are familiar with open-ended mutual funds, which are bought and sold at the end of the day based on the Net Asset Value (NAV) of the fund’s holdings. As new money comes into these open-ended funds, more shares are issued by the mutual fund company.

But too few investors have ever heard of a Closed End Mutual Fund …