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DOL regulation translates into pay cut for some advisers

Reduction in compensation begs question of whether rule is being twisted to bolster broker-dealers' bottom lines.

The Department of Labor's fiduciary rule has morphed into a pay cut for some advisers, who are left wondering whether a reduction in their compensation is being used to bolster the bottom lines of the broker-dealers with which they work.

Sure, it would be rather cynical to say that firms are takin

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