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September 8, 2010, Cover Stories, Advisors/Planners/Reps , Regulations/Legal

Imperfect Harmony

By Kerry Pechter   Wed, Sep 01, 2010

Hundreds of riled-up advisors and brokers, including Harold Evensky, have responded to the SEC's RFI on "harmonizing" their standards of conduct. Here's some of what they wrote.

Over the past five weeks or so, the SEC has received an earful from brokers and advisors. Virtually all of the brokers’ emails urge the government not to subject them to a new and costly layer of regulation. Most, but not all, of the investment advisors’ comments call for extending the fiduciary standard to any intermediary who provides, as one letter put it, “a scintilla” of advice.”


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