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New rules would set standards of conduct for brokers, require new disclosures and offer interpretive guidance for fiduciary advisors.

Should advisors and brokers have plain-English job descriptions and be required to work in their clients’ best interest? Commissioners will vote on whether to move ahead with key proposals.

The new fee system will impact more than 800,000 customers.

While American women earn only 82 cents for every dollar men earn, the wage gap is far greater for female planners.

Instead of thinking about fiduciary purely as an obligation or regulation, advisors should envision it as something much bigger: a way of life.

Investors brought a class-action suit against brokerage alleging a "scheme to churn revenue from essentially dead assets."

Instead of harmonizing standards of client care across the industry, it may be better to re-differentiate them in light of the fiduciary rule's recent court loss.

After a federal appeals court strikes down the fiduciary rule, a legal path forward seems uncertain, but the regulation has already made its mark.

Merrill Lynch, UBS and others made considerable alterations to policies and procedures in order to be compliant with the Labor Department regulation.

Even after a federal appeals court struck down the rule, more clashes over the regulation of sales versus advice are inevitable.