The economists and staff at the Securities and Exchange Commission who are responsible for performing a more detailed cost-benefit analysis on the agency's rule to put brokers under a fiduciary mandate plan to ask the public to weigh in.
SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro (left) told Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., chairman of the House Financial Services Capital Markets Subcommittee, in a Jan. 10 letter that SEC staff along with three economists in the agency's Division of Risk, Strategy and Financial Innovation (RiskFin), "are drafting a public request for information to obtain data specific to the provision of retail financial advice and the regulatory alternatives."
In this request, Schapiro wrote, "it is our hope commenters will provide information that will allow Commission staff to continue to analyze the various components of the market for retail financial advice."
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