FAI: An investment advisor featured in 'The Big Short' has lost his SEC appeal

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Financial advisors think the Department of Labor is making a mistake in allowing exemptions that let insurance agents continue to sell fixed-index annuities, reports Financial Advisor. 

Also, Wing Chau, an investment advisor featured in Michael Lewis' "Big Short," lost an appeal to close a fraud case against him filed by the SEC.

Meanwhile, investors are fleeing from the bond market. Jeffrey Gundlach's flagship DoubleLine Total Return Bond Fund witnessed outflows of $1.4 billion in November, according to Financial Advisor.

David Kostin, the chief US equity strategist at Goldman Sachs, thinks there is good news coming in 2017, but investors shouldn't be complacent. Bill Gross, the Janus bond guru and legendary investor, thinks that America has two imprisonment problems.

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Lastly, Doug Haynes, president of New York's Point72 Capital Management, didn't have his sights set on a career in the hedge fund business.

But that's where he ended up after a call from legendary money manager Steven Cohen in late-2013.

And here's a roundup of stories from across Wall Street:

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In other news, Wall Street banks are having a great time in trading.

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