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If House Flips, SEC Advice Standards Package Likely to Face Scrutiny
By Melanie WaddellExpect continued gridlock, "with only a few issues like infrastructure likely to move in 2019," predicts Horizon's Valliere.
November 02, 2018
SEC Updates List of Fake Firms, RegulatorsThe so-called PAUSE list has been updated with eight bogus regulators, four "spoofers" of real firms and 16 soliciting entities.
November 01, 2018
SEC's Clayton: Advice Standards Package Done by September, 'if Not Sooner'Clayton tells ThinkAdvisor that changes are also expected to Reg BI and Form CRS.
October 31, 2018
SEC Proposes Long-Awaited Variable Annuity Summary ProspectusThe plan would allow these contracts to use a summary prospectus to provide disclosures to investors.
October 30, 2018
SEC Best-Interest Proposals Generating Less Advisor Awareness Than DOL Fiduciary Rule Did: SurveyThe Labor rule may be defunct, but all that prep work isn't lost, advisors said in a Fidelity survey.
October 29, 2018
4 Reasons the Advisor Compliance Landscape Is So ComplexFormer SEC official John Walsh talks about uncertainties around fee compression, 12b-1 fees and the broker protocol at Schwab Impact.
October 26, 2018
DOL, SEC Flexing Enforcement Muscle Under TrumpThe two regulators are leveraging enforcement initiatives at a historic level of tenacity.
October 26, 2018
Wall Street Giants Fight Over Who Helps Small Investors MostFirst discussion from SEC roundtable brings fireworks from both sides.