WASHINGTON -- Former Securities and Exchange Commission fund-industry regulator Barry Barbash is moving to Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP from Shearman & Sterling LLP, and is bringing four other ...

A majority of private-equity firms inflate fees and expenses charged to companies in which they hold stakes, according to an internal review by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, raising the ...

WASHINGTON -- Fund firms will be required to sport a chief compliance officer come October, but many gathered here at the Investment Company Institute's General Membership Meeting had unanswered ...

Over the years there has been extensive critical commentary regarding whether the existing mutual fund regulatory structure that permits uniquely incestuous relationships and conflicts of interest ...

SECURITIES LAWYER BARRY BARBASH receives frequent inquiries from entrepreneurs eager to break into the lucrative money-management field. Most callers want advice on setting up hedge funds. Others hope ...

While outrage over the current mutual-fund trading scandal is appropriate, informed outrage is more constructive. Enter Barry Barbash. Mr. Barbash headed up fund regulation at the Securities & ...

PALM DESERT, Calif. - Perhaps nobody captured the current mood of the mutual fund business better than Barry Barbash, a former Securities and Exchange Commission investment management director, when ...

Barry Barbash, former fund chief at the Securities and Exchange Commission, agreed that fund companies annual and semi-annual reports are likely to be more bland. "The next word that people think of ...

PHOENIX - Michael Koonce would be happy to offer his opinion on the Securities and Exchange Commission's new redemption fee rule. It's a pain in the neck. "This is one of the most controversial and, ...

Mutual funds are moving to comply with a new regulation that requires them to have independent chairmen starting in 2006, despite a growing challenge to the rule. Though the deadline is a year off, ...