- Program Note: This week’s issue includes links to articles published by Tax Analysts, which is a subscription service. It’s a deservedly popular service, so please check with your librarian or tax folks to determine if your firm is already a subscriber. We’re working on obtaining permission to publish full articles.
- MSRB to Discuss MA Exams, Gift Restrictions, Principal Transaction Disclosure.
- Muni Groups: SEC Disclosure Rule Outdated, Needs Overhauling.
- Dealers to MSRB: Withdraw Principal Trade Disclosure Proposal.
- SIFMA Supports Increased Bond Market Price Transparency for Investors; Urges Greater Access to and Usage of Existing Data on FINRA and MSRB Systems.
- QPIBs Provide a Level Playing Field for Public-Private Partnerships.
- S&P: Why U.S. Availability Projects are Not Rated the Same as the Counterparty.
- GASB Adds External Investment Pools to Its Technical Agenda.
- WSJ: Detroit’s Lawyers and Advisers Defend Billing.
- Congress Extends QZABs, New Markets Tax Credits; Continuing Effect of Sequestration: McGuire Woods
- American Federation of Teachers v. State – Supreme Court of New Hampshire upholds statutory amendments affecting the calculation of benefits under the New Hampshire Retirement System, finding that the statute’s defining of “earnable compensation” did not create a contractual right to a fixed definition of that term.
- And finally, Argabrite v. Neer was good enough to provide us this week with the most accurate description of the BCB workplace to date, “atrocious, and utterly intolerable in a civilized society.”
