Introduction On June 9, 2017, the U.S. Department of Labor’s rule requiring financial advisors to act as fiduciaries by putting their clients’ best interest before their own when offering investment advice went into partial effect. Americans lose about $17 billion a year to conflicts of interest with these advisors. Under the new rule, advisors must […]
By Robert Tobey Many Americans were surprised by the announcement of the U.S. Department of Labor’s rule requiring financial advisors to act as fiduciaries –putting their clients’ best interest before their own when offering investment advice. The surprise wasn’t the rule itself. It was that most Americans assumed this had been the standard all along. […]
By Randy Johnston
Have you ever had a trial setting you weren’t ready for but also were not really even worried about? It’s a first setting on a big case and the case is only a year old.
