<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Fixed-income investors are starting to feel the painful realities of bond math.
Proposal would require brokers working with IRAs and other retirement accounts to act in their clients' best interests, increasing the number of financial advisers who are deemed fiduciaries.
Using an anecdote critical of VAs, Thomas Perez says most people are better served by simple investments.
Exams add scrutiny to an industry debating proposals that brokers act in client's best interests.
SEC will require brokerages to include a 'readily apparent reference and hyperlink' to the database on home pages and broker profiles.
Broker-dealer also agreed to pay $950,000 as part of a settlement with Finra over allegations of improper sales of unregistered penny stocks and anti-money-laundering supervisory lapses.
Former head of the private client group Robert Okin agrees to bar and $125,000 payment in settlement; branch manager and broker also accept penalties
Third-Party Fiduciary Services charges a 3 bps fee to enable retirement plans and advisers to outsource their fiduciary responsibilities.
Administrative law judge rules against the agency in closely watched case over disclosure of Fidelity payments for mutual fund sales.
But proponents look to the history of the fight to maintain optimism.
Both chambers move to derail president's call for a best-interest standard for retirement accounts.
Holds up online-advice provider as exemplar of low-cost, fiduciary advice.
Broker and wirehouse embroiled in a three-year dispute over a promissory note.
Legislation gives the Labor Department $1.4 billion less than requested
Advisers also worry about attracting new clients in the future, survey shows
Award is tied to string of cases brought by retirees who said a broker placed them in unsuitable investments.
A former Green Bay Packers starter is unlikely to recoup funds lost from Resource Horizons, a firm that's already racked up more than $4 million in unpaid damages. <i>(More: <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/gallery/20130812/FREE/812009998/PH/athletes-vs-advisers" target="_blank">7 famous athletes who claimed they were duped by advisers</a>)</i>
The idea &mdash; known as a patent box or innovation box &mdash; would help companies trying to maintain low tax rates they've achieved by booking income in overseas tax havens.
Great-West CEO Reynolds, Chamber of Commerce warn rule will hurt investors, advisers.
