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Category: Financial Market Regulator

This category includes articles that refer to a government body responsible for supervision and regulation of one or more financial markets, covering such areas as securities markets, banking, insurance, or the registry of corporations. [Capital Market Taxonomy]

Questionable SIPC Guarantees?

Will your assets survive an atomic blast?

By John Schroy, on July 24th, 2006 | 2 comments
Will this protect you?

Millions have brokerage accounts with SIPC protection and think this means they have government insurance of up to $500,000 on securities in custody with a broker-dealer, plus $100,000 on cash balances — similar to the FDIC guarantee on bank accounts.

In this, millions of investors are mistaken.

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FASB

Pension accounting rules tightened slightly

By John Schroy, on April 1st, 2006 | Leave a comment
Accounting rules effect real people

FASB concept statement No. 5 represents a further slow tightening of the screws as to the way pension liabilities are reported — one step in a long, excruciating journey that has been underway for decades. This rule is expected to have an incremental negative impact on old, unionized companies, further decline in private defined-benefit plans, and higher state and local taxes.

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