US INVESTMENT ADVISORS MONEY LAUNDERING

BY ALAN OSBORNONLY in America would you find investment and commodity trading advisors ranked as professionals, with their own formal association, codes of practice, mission statement and newsletter. This is not to mock them but rather to acknowledge the extent to which the US investment scene has developed powerful and sophisticated bodies of professional experts that seem hardly to exist at all in other countries. The key body for advisors in the US is the Washington-based Investment Adviser Association (IAA) - until this year known as the Investment Counsel ...


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