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What Advisers Need to Know Now About Giving Rollover Advice after September 23, 2024

This article was originally published on Kitces.com, on May 15, 2024, and is available at at DoL’s Retirement Security Rule & PTE 2020-02 Amendment: What Advisers Need to Know Now about Giving Rollover Advice After September...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

DOL Expands Investment Advice Subject to Fiduciary Liability

Following previous failed attempts to expand the fiduciary liability of financial services providers, the DOL released a new rule that broadens the definition of “fiduciary” under ERISA. The new rule is expected to face...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

ETF, founder to pay SEC $4.4M for misleading trustees

On August 1, the SEC settled for $4.4 million with an investment adviser and entities he founded (collectively, the “respondents”) on charges that they breached both their duty of care and duty of loyalty to their client, an...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Investment Advisers: The Independent Duties of Care and Loyalty

There appear to be conflicting views of whether an investment adviser’s duty of care can be satisfied by disclosures that satisfy the duty of loyalty. That is, if an adviser discloses the receipt of additional compensation...more

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A Spring Into Chaos: Massachusetts Adopts Fiduciary Rule

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The standard of conduct for broker-dealers is quickly becoming a crazy quilt of securities regulation. Apparently unsatisfied with the standard established under SEC Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI), some state securities...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Best Interest Standard of Care for Advisors #23

Regulation Best Interest: SEC 2020 Examination Priorities—Examinations for Compliance With Reg BI and the Investment Adviser Interpretation - The SEC has issued its final Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI), Form CRS Rule,...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

SEC Division of Investment Management Releases FAQs Regarding Disclosure of Financial Conflicts Related to Investment Adviser...

The staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Investment Management released frequently asked questions (FAQs) on October 18, 2019, which discuss certain compensation arrangements and related...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

2019-20 Compliance Developments and Calendar for Private Fund Advisers

While the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought several enforcement actions in 2018-19, the most significant new developments were published interpretations and alerts. Other agencies, such as the Commodity Futures...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

SEC Issues Guidance on Investment Advisers' Proxy Voting Responsibilities and Interpretation of the Applicability of Proxy Rules...

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The SEC adopted Guidance that discusses, among other matters, the ability of investment advisers to establish a variety of different voting arrangements with their clients and matters they should consider when they use the...more

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SEC Issues Interpretation of the Standard of Conduct for Investment Advisers

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On the day that the SEC issued Regulation Best Interest (“Reg BI”), the long-awaited rule proscribing the standard of care that broker-dealers owe their clients, the SEC also issued an interpretation of the standard of care...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

SEC Interpretation Offers Clarification on an Investment Adviser’s Duties of Care and Loyalty

As part of its “Reg BI Package”, approved on June 5, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) sought to clarify the fiduciary duty that an investment adviser owes to its clients under the Investment Advisers...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

New SEC interpretation impacts timberland investment advisors

On June 5, 2019, the US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted a comprehensive package of rulemakings and interpretations governing the standard of conduct applicable to broker-dealers and the fiduciary duty applicable to...more

Carlton Fields

Unpacking the SEC’s Regulation Best Interest Package

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On June 5, 2019, the SEC adopted a four-part regulatory package that includes: new Regulation Best Interest (Reg. BI), the related “Relationship Summary” disclosure form (Form CRS), and two interpretations of the Advisers...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Commission Interpretation – Standard of Conduct for Investment Advisers

The Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on June 5, 2019 released an interpretation of the standard of conduct required by the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the “Advisers Act”) of investment advisers as...more

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In Focus: SEC Form CRS Roadmap – How to Navigate Its Operational Challenges

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To help retail investors better understand the services, fees, costs, conflicts of interest, and required standards of conduct that apply to relationships with broker-dealers (Broker-Dealers), federally registered investment...more

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SEC Adopts Interpretive Guidance on Investment Adviser Fiduciary Duty

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On June 5, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) released a long-anticipated interpretation of investment adviser fiduciary duty under Section 206 of the US Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (“the Advisers...more

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SEC Publishes a Roadmap to Navigating the Investment Adviser Fiduciary Duty

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On June 5, 2019, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted a final interpretation (the “Interpretation”) of the standard of conduct applicable to investment advisers (“IA”) under the Investment Advisers...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

SEC Clarifies Investment Adviser Standard of Conduct

On June 5, 2019, the SEC issued an Interpretive Release designed to “reaffirm, and in some cases clarify, the standard of conduct that investment advisers owe to their clients.” The Interpretive Release highlights existing...more

Stinson LLP

SEC Adopts Regulation Best Interest

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New rule includes a heightened standard for broker-dealers, new required disclosures for investment advisers and broker-dealers and other guidance - On June 5, 2019, by a vote of 3-1, the SEC adopted Regulation Best...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Publishes Final Interpretation of Investment Adviser Standard of Conduct

On June 5, 2019, the SEC published an interpretation of the standard of conduct for investment advisers under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. The objective of the Proposed and Final Interpretations was to reaffirm and...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Components of Regulation Best Interest

As we previously blogged, on June 5, 2019, the SEC adopted Regulation Best Interest. The final regulation includes obligations relating to disclosure, care, conflicts of interest and compliance, which are each specific...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

The Final Reg BI Package: What to Know and What’s Next

On June 5, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), led by Chairman Jay Clayton, voted 3 to 1 to approve the four agenda items that encompassed the “Reg BI Package.” These four items were Regulation Best Interest –...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

SEC Adopts New Interpretation of Fiduciary Duty

On June 5, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted a comprehensive interpretation (the “Interpretation”) of the fiduciary duties that investment advisers owe to their clients under the Investment Advisers...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Broker-Dealer and Investment Adviser Standards of Conduct - SEC Adopts Rules and Interpretations

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On June 5, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to adopt a package of rulemakings and interpretations, including (i) a new rule creating a standard of conduct for broker-dealers when recommending securities to...more

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SEC Adopts Enhanced Standard of Conduct for Broker-Dealers and Clarifies Fiduciary Duties of Investment Advisers

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, on June 5, 2019, voted 3-1 in favor of adopting a package of rules, amendments and interpretations (Final Rules) intended to improve the retail investor experience and to provide...more

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