The rule, which was proposed last year and goes into effect next Tuesday, essentially replaces the defunct Obama-era version that regulated investment advice for 401(k)s and rollover IRAs. It provides an exemption for investment advice fiduciaries under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
Agency says it will make it harder for financial firms to obtain waivers from knock-on sanctions when they settle enforcement cases.
Its new effort, called M&A Solutions, includes ‘strategic support’ and online tools to help advisers considering a transaction.
The regulator wants to install an industry veteran to run GPB to monitor its assets in auto dealerships and make sure investor interests are protected.
Advisers can build their own custom model portfolios of exchange-traded funds if they agree to move a minimum of $2.5 million in assets to Betterment.
The new world of working from the comfort of home has made employment a touch more tolerable, leading many to stay in their current jobs indefinitely, or accept new offers for part-time or temporary work.
The change puts pressure on firms' compliance operations, experts say. Facilitating the ability of SEC staff to issue subpoenas and take testimony is expected to make enforcement more agile and effective.
The legislation would allow an inflation adjustment for stock or business property held by people 59 ½ or older who have held the assets for more than three years. The inflation adjustments would be made according to the Chained Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.
Short-term mutual fund trades and variable annuity switching is generally regarded in the retail securities industry as a way for brokers and advisers to increase commissions at the expense of clients.
Those who oversee the markets are not built to react quickly to disruptions within them. Theirs is a world of study and deliberation. They have to listen to a wide range of public input. and they often leave much regulatory ambiguity in place.
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While the Labor Department has ended its support for the suit seeking to invalidate California's auto-IRA, the analysis in its amicus brief is still part of the record before the court.
As an industry, we’ve probably made business planning more complex than it needs to be. Keep it simple; it’s better to write something down than nothing, and there’s no need to put everything down.
Isaiah Goodman of Becoming Financial Advisory Services allegedly siphoned off most of clients’ money and spent it on himself
The new SMA tool enables RIAs to outsource the management of their client’s digital portfolios by using a framework to account for protocol maturation, ecosystem adoption rate, and project governance.
SEC obtains judgments against Seth Leyton and the trust of the orchestrator of a fraud involving collateralized mortgage obligations.
The company is among a slim minority of defined-contribution plan sponsors. According to Vanguard’s 2020 How America Saves report, only 4% of its record-keeping clients did not make contributions of any kind to the company retirement plans.
The group of five advisers, which was with J.P. Morgan for nine years, will join UBS' Century City office in Los Angeles.
Mission Financial Group in Hawaii will retain its B-D affiliations through First Allied.
Legal experts say the cases will have a monumental challenge overcoming motions to dismiss. The lawsuits allege online brokerages entered into an agreement and conspiracy to prevent the market from operating normally.
