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Compliance February 18, 2011
DoL Releases Fiduciary Definition Hearing Agenda
The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) released an agenda
for its public hearing on a proposal to refine the definition of fiduciary.
Reported by PLANADVISER staff
Regulators will hear testimony from members of 13 witness panels on March 1 and March 2, 2011, in Washington D.C. Twenty-one witnesses will appear the first day of the session, with 17 more scheduled for the following day.
The hearing schedule is at http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/pdf/1210-AB32hearingagenda.pdf.
Comments on the proposal already submitted to the DoL are at http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/regs/cmt-1210-AB32.html.
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