IT TOOK A CRISIS FOR INDEPENDENTS TO TAKE A HARD LINE ON SOFT DOLLARS

The Boston Globe;  June 21, 2004 ;     531 words ......vexed trustees. Soft dollars are expenses paid...bond trades for mutual funds have typically...220 million in soft dollars last year, the...reversal for the mutual fund business...for an end to soft dollars with greater urgency...

Most check `yes' on ADV question about use, though unaware of how;...

Investment News;  April 12, 2004 ;     700+ words ......worried that likely changes in the way soft dollars'' are regulated could cost them and their clients. Until the debate over soft dollars broke out, many advisers were unaware...businesses. New regulations governing use of soft dollars are among the many changes being ...

Cox's letter on soft dollars reopens debate; Some wonder what it might...

Investment News;  June 18, 2007 ;     700+ words ......problem with soft dollars is the lack of...selling crappy mutual funds, because they...funds' use of soft dollars. If Congress prohibits use of soft dollars, hedge funds...research for soft dollars than any of their...including mutual funds, ...

Soft dollars hard on mutual funds

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 19, 2000 ;     565 words ......controversy over "soft dollars," a type of barter...receive these credits or soft dollars by placing trades...it would receive soft dollars that could be used...SEC still considers soft dollars a worry among investment...Funds family. He views soft dollars ...

One Regulator's Surprising Attack on Soft Dollars.

Traders;  December 1, 2007 ;     329 words ......he suddenly called for the abolition of soft dollars. In a speech in May, Cox said soft dollars offer perverse incentives to investment...to investors. Cox also suggested that soft dollars lead to higher brokerage costs and may...

Soft Peddling: In the rush to clean up mutual funds, a proposed ban on...

Financial Planning;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Soft dollars are under attack again...ICI asked the SEC to ban soft dollars except to pay for research...Senate also has taken up a mutual fund reform bill that prohibits mutual funds from entering into soft-doll...created a safe harbor for soft dollars used ...

Mutual Funds: Additional Disclosures Could Increase Transparency of Fees...

General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony;  February 1, 2004 ;     559 words ......disclosures of mutual fund fees and...June 2003 report, Mutual Funds: Greater Transparency...reviewed (1) how mutual funds disclose their...changes in how mutual funds pay for the sale...concerns over mutual funds' use of soft dollars. This ...

Securities Industry Regulators Turn Focus Toward Use of 'Soft Dollars';...

PR Newswire;  January 27, 2004 ;     700+ words ......or at least curtailing - the use of soft dollars. The Investment Company Institute (ICI) defines soft dollars as credits that result from arrangements...some amount of loose interpretation of soft dollars rules - as well as instances of direct...

Under pressure: Mutual funds face soft-dollar disclosure rule; SEC also...

Pensions & Investments;  May 12, 2003 ;     700+ words ......to tackle soft dollars, as well as...advisers to mutual funds to gross up...railed against soft dollars for years...already charge mutual funds a management...said forcing mutual funds to put soft dollars on the books...

Mutual Funds: Greater Transparency Needed in Disclosures to Investors.

General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony;  July 1, 2003 ;     549 words ......reviewed (1) how mutual funds disclose their fees...changes in how mutual funds pay for the sale...the concerns over mutual funds' use of soft dollars. Although mutual funds disclose considerable...Changes in how mutual funds pay ...

Soft Dollars Take Back Seat on the Hill.

Traders;  April 1, 2004 ;     586 words ......chairmen have affirmed that they don't want soft dollars killed. They also said that they favor...transparency and has stopped paying brokers in soft dollars for research and other services. Mutual...are also weighing up the SEC's take on soft dollars. Indeed, SEC Chairman William ...

TRUSTEE LAUDS FIDELITY DECISION TO REDUCE `SOFT DOLLARS' TO BROKERS

The Boston Globe;  June 29, 2004 ;     600 words ......trustees at the Fidelity Investments mutual funds yesterday applauded the company...Commission this year to eliminate "soft dollars," or hidden fees that are tucked...regulatory body ruled that all mutual funds must name an independent chairman...

Trustee lauds Fidelity Investments' decision to reduce 'soft dollars'.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  June 29, 2004 ;     661 words ......trustees at the Fidelity Investments mutual funds yesterday applauded the company...Commission this year to eliminate soft dollars, or hidden fees that are tucked...regulatory body ruled that all mutual funds must name an independent chairman...

soft dollars

A Dictionary of Finance and Banking;      4 words ...soft dollars See HARD DOLLARS .

An NASD Boost for Soft Dollars.(National Association of Securities...

Traders;  January 1, 2005 ;     267 words ......holiday season for supporters of soft dollars. The alternative payment practice...of the Mutual Fund Task Force on Soft Dollars and Portfolio Transaction Costs basically endorsed the use of soft dollars, some analysts said. Its rationale...