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RR's: Putting a Customer’s Interests Above Their Own

January 24, 2011

In this heroic weekend, the SEC published a landmark rule release on a Saturday - can't recall the last - in which it recommended placing stockbrokers under the same fiduciary standard of conduct as investment advisers.

In the closely report, the Commission staff said retail investors “generally are not aware” that stockbrokers and their firms are subject to a lesser legal standard, one that requires brokers to make sure the products that they sell are suitable for their clients. Investment advisers are already subject to the higher fiduciary standard.  The higher standard of fiduciary duty that would apply to both brokers and advisers is intended to ...

"increase investor protection and decrease investor confusion in the most practicable, least burdensome way for investors, broker-dealers and investment advisers.”   [Dealbook, 1/24]