Tag: Fiduciary adviser

Nearly three-quarters think the market volatility will settle down by year’s end.

Protecting assets and saving for retirement are also key goals.

Two national insurance advocacy groups have “reluctantly” joined the growing list of plaintiffs asking the federal courts to declare the DOL’s new fiduciary rule arbitrary and capricious. 

The solution is aimed at simplifying retirement plan delivery for small employers. 

Could Google one day be a top provider of investments or financial advice? What about Facebook, or Amazon? 

The National Association for Fixed Annuities filed a complaint in district court to “challenge and vacate the Department of Labor’s final fiduciary regulations.”

A coalition of national financial and business trade groups has filed a lawsuit to strike down the DOL’s new regulations that will require most brokers and investment consultants...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has given several signs that it could soon introduce a uniform standard of client care for registered brokers and advisers. 

The strongest-performing advisers are leading the way on aggressive plan design, embracing re-enrollment, stretching the match and making sure plans work for participants as they’re designed to. 

“This is hardly the first time regulation will change the way advisers get paid and disclose important information to clients,” one industry executive observes, “so in that respect...

In a letter to lawmakers, ICI's president urged Congress to support bills that offer a different way to implement a best interest standard.

A new Q&A pinpoints changes in the final fiduciary regulation.

RetirementAdvantage is now available through LPL’s Vendor Affinity Program

The tools and resources are designed to help advisers succeed in the regulatory environment created by the finalized DOL fiduciary rule.

Given how prone the Labor Secretary and other DOL officials are to cite severe negative impacts of conflicted retirement advice on average Americans, some advisers are surprised (and...

More than half of advisers polled think the DOL regulation will help their businesses by levelling the playing field on retirement advice and eliminating competition.

A given financial adviser’s response to the final fiduciary rule from the Department of Labor may have more to do with the adviser’s brokerage platform provider than their...