Mary Schapiro Quotes

This initiative started with our disciplinary action against First Command Financial Planning. We and our partners want to make sure that that sort of thing never happens again. We believe the Military Financial Education Program will move us a long way toward that end. - Mary Schapiro

There is a lot more detail now around our expectations. This lays out clearly that entertainment should not interfere with duty to the customer. - Mary Schapiro

Some of the pitches are appalling. - Mary Schapiro

Securities firms that sell variable life insurance products must ensure that they are appropriate for particular investors and that brokers do not mislead their customers about the nature of these products. - Mary Schapiro

It is certainly a crime with a victim when people who have the right to expect that they are doing business with honorable and reputable people who will be duly licensed find out that they are not. - Mary Schapiro

Fee-based accounts can be appropriate for a wide range of customers. - Mary Schapiro

Brokerage firms and their executives cannot use threats regarding research activities as a way to obtain investment banking business... The threat to drop research coverage if Piper were not selected as the lead underwriter for a secondary offering was totally inappropriate and undermines the integrity of the market. - Mary Schapiro

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