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Online Trading Stock And (AXcess News) Washington - Seven retail investment banking firms along with a mutual fund brokerage firm were charged with direct brokerage violations by the NASD and fined over $7.75 million in an NASD enforcement sweep, the securities regulator said.

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Stock Investing Course The enforcement sweep focused on the receipt or payment of directed brokerage in exchange for preferential treatment for certain mutual fund companies.

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Stock System Trading All of the cases involve violations of NASD's Anti-Reciprocal Rule, which prohibits firms from favoring the sale of shares of mutual funds on the basis of brokerage commissions received by the firm.

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Stock Investing Game "We continue to pursue conduct which puts the interests of firms ahead of the interests of customers," said Barry Goldsmith, NASD Executive Vice President and Head of Enforcement. "NASD's prohibition on the receipt of directed brokerage is designed to eliminate these conflicts of interest in the sale of mutual funds, whose costs are paid not by the mutual fund company, but by the funds' shareholders."

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Market Stock Trading According to the NASD, the seven retail firms operated "preferred partner" or "shelf space" programs that provided benefits to specific mutual fund complexes in return for directed brokerage. The benefits to the mutual fund complexes included, in various cases, higher visibility on firms' internal websites, including inclusion on internal lists identifying the funds as participants in the programs; increased access to firms' sales forces; participation in "top producer" or training meetings, and promotion of the preferred funds on a broader basis than was available for other funds.

Online Stock Trading Canada The mutual fund complexes that participated in these programs paid extra fees for the preferential treatment they received.

Stock Investing Basics Certain complexes participating in the preferred partner programs paid part or all of the revenue sharing fees by the use of directed brokerage -- that is, by directing commissions from trades in the portfolios they managed to the firms. This included a practice of directing trades to the trading desks of designated third parties, which then remitted a portion of the trading commissions to the retail firms named in these actions -- although those retail firms provided no services in connection with the trades. The commissions paid under these arrangements were sufficiently large to pay for the preferred benefits received by the funds as well as the costs of trade execution.

Day Online Stock Trading The retail firms generally monitored the amount of directed brokerage received to ensure that the fund complexes were satisfying their revenue sharing obligations. The use of directed brokerage allowed the fund complexes to use assets of the mutual funds instead of their own money to meet their revenue sharing obligations.

Online Stock Trading Game The NASD said it also censured and fined one mutual fund distributor, Lord Abbett Distributor LLC. Lord Abbett paid for some of its shelf space obligations by having its affiliated investment adviser direct portfolio transactions to or for the benefit of firms to which the distributor owed revenue sharing fees.

Stock Investing Software The charges levied against the eight broker dealers brought the count to 28 firms that have been fined since the NASD began its probe into the mutual fund industry.

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