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Asset Management Law360 provides breaking legal news and analysis on the asset management industry. Coverage includes litigation, policy developments, and corporate deals involving investment firms, mutual funds, hedge funds, bond funds, pension funds, and real estate investment trusts.
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Latest News in Asset Management
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March 17, 2026
SEC Won't Reconsider Upholding Ex-Broker's FINRA Fines
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission won't revisit its earlier holding partially sustaining certain Financial Industry Regulatory Authority findings and sanctions against a former stockbroker who's challenged the constitutionality of the self-regulatory organization, stating that the stockbroker's reconsideration bid hadn't asserted the regulator erred in its earlier decision.
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March 17, 2026
SIFMA, Other Orgs Weigh In On SEC's 'Small Entity' Proposal
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association is urging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to increase its oversight of investment advisers should it move forward with a plan to categorize more mutual funds and advisers as small entities, saying the current playing field disadvantages broker-dealers.
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March 17, 2026
OFAC Fines Broker $1.1M Over Apparent Sanctions Violations
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control on Tuesday announced that Florida brokerage TradeStation Securities Inc. has agreed to pay more than $1.1 million to settle potential civil liability for violating the regulator's sanctions programs for Iran, Syria and Crimea.
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March 17, 2026
BlackRock Must Face Ex-VP's Whistleblower Retaliation Suit
BlackRock Inc. must face a suit in New York state court by a former vice president who alleges he faced retaliation and wrongful termination after raising concerns about self-dealing, corruption and conflicts of interest, with a state judge partially rejecting the asset manager's bid to dismiss the case.
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March 17, 2026
Ex-Edward Jones Adviser Cops To Embezzlement Of $9.5M
A former Georgia-based Edward Jones investment adviser admitted Tuesday to embezzling an elderly client out of about $9.5 million through his control of the client's brokerage accounts and the estate of his relative.
Areas of Coverage
- TRANSACTIONS
- Initial public offerings
- Joint ventures
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Spinoffs
- Franchise and management agreements
- Real estate deals
- Shareholder activism involving hedge funds and hedge fund managers
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- U.S. Department of Justice
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
- Internal Revenue Service
- Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
- U.S. Government Accountability Office
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Dodd-Frank Act
- Financial company lobbying
- International banking legislation and regulation
- LITIGATION
- Bankruptcies involving assets managed by hedge funds, pension funds, mutual funds, or other investment managers
- Restructuring and distressed debt issues
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of asset management practices
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- Executives and attorneys in the asset management industry
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- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
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