Regulation

As the college savings vehicle grows in popularity, regulator up scrutiny of brokerages’ recommendations to clients.

An extension from the agency comes amid warnings from brokerages that breaking out stock and bond analysis would threaten their own research businesses.

While technology has expanded the toolkit for advisors, some still struggle to differentiate their offerings.

The agency floats proposal to expand regulations to accommodate new online channels, allow for third-party ratings and testimonials.

The changes follow the firm’s recent move to cut some client fees on separately managed accounts.

The court is taking up a challenge to one of the agency’s most potent legal weapons.

With tens of thousands of certificants affiliated with giant BDs, the documents required by the new standards are making their conflicts of interest plain as day.

The regulator was allegedly inquiring about whether incentives at an firm unit rewarded salespeople for pitching higher-cost products.

The regulator is doing more with less but also missing its own goals around how long an investigation takes to result in an enforcement case.

The authors of a PIABA Foundation study describe a system in which it’s ‘almost impossible’ to put the public’s interests first.