MEDIA REVIEWS - May 8-15, 2010

There's a lot of noise here about regulatory reform--David Tittsworth is a respected member of the community who seems to be clear-eyed about the impact of the various bills on the SEC; Bob Clark is kind of shrill in his (yet again) denunciation of the Financial Planning Coalition; there's a great interview with compliance attorney Tom Giachetti, and then there's Mary Schapiro, in an interview where she says all the right things and seems to keep a straight face, and earlier when she is named one of the most influential people over the past 30 years in the financial planning profession, right up there with Ken Fisher, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Markopolos, Steve Jobs and Michael Milken. One wonders where today's practitioner would have gotten inspiration and evolutionary guidance these past three decades without those lights to guide us.

In all the hoopla over a bill that is still being negotiated, don't miss the Dan Skiles column (on cloud computing) toward the back of the magazine; Skiles is going to be a wealth of insight for the magazine going forward.

Here's to a better regulatory future...