Such a strategy would aim at levelizing compensation, thereby dodging additional compliance requirements and litigation risk.
The collaboration focuses on the compliance confusion among advisers and broker-dealers caused by the DOL's fiduciary rule.
Confusion could be the rule's greatest by-product due to its broad and somewhat general nature.
Many professional certification programs have long demanded their advisers act in clients' best interests, and not just when working with retirement accounts.
Simply playing the fiduciary card to win over investors may not work the way it did in the past.
Already expected to spur consolidation among broker-dealers, the DOL fiduciary rule could also hasten RIA mergers.
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Parties will now have more time to prepare for a hearing and be able to take depositions, but concerns of fairness remain.
Agency has filed 508 enforcement actions through the first three quarters of fiscal 2016, down 8% from last year.
Rep. Luke Messer's forthcoming bill seeks to alter administrative forums that he says 'trample' on people's rights and contribute to a fearful citizenry.
In about a year from now, 21 investment advisory firms representing about $518 million of assets will be required to switch to a state registration from the one they now hold with the SEC.
After laying low for weeks, opponents of the Labor Department's fiduciary rule finally push back.
Congressional Republicans continue to fight the measure that requires advisers to retirement accounts to act in clients' best interest.
The agency posted 13 technical corrections Thursday, one of which deletes six words that have caused confusion about use of the BICE.
Market Synergy's lawsuit, one of several targeting the Labor Department regulation, is set for Aug. 24 in a Kansas district court.
The party is set to endorse a levy on securities sales and to defend the DOL fiduciary rule when it meets at its national convention in Philadelphia later this month.
The rule changes will likely result in dramatically higher fees for many smaller clients, and one bond shop is already reacting.
Finra directs the brokerage firm to pay $142,168 due to allegations of unsuitable investments and overtrading.
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