Following the Fiduciary Rule

Hester Peirce
FinRegRag
Published in
1 min readMay 15, 2017

The Department of Labor, following a presidential directive, put the fiduciary rule on hold until June 9. The rule is a controversial project by the Department to change the way retail investors interact with financial professionals. We don’t know what will happen to the rule during this mandated time of introspection. We do know that the industry already has been changing in response to the complex rule — changes that may leave some investors wishing for a different approach to protecting their interests. Read more here.

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Hester Peirce
FinRegRag

Senior research fellow in financial regulation at Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Nobody else will own my tweets