The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has kept their promise to take up the retail investor protection baton from the Department of Labor and the SEC’s proposed Regulation Best Interest may be another tailwind to US ETFs.
A US federal appeals court decision may have just dealt the knockout blow to the DoL Fiduciary Rule.
2018 will be a transitional year for financial regulation as we move from a decade of policy debate to a time of conclusion and implementation in several key areas.
As the saying goes, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” When thinking about 2017’s global financial regulatory landscape, the sentiment fits nicely.
News broke Wednesday of a plan to delay the implementation of the Department of Labor (DoL) Fiduciary Rule effective date until at least July 1, 2019.