With sincerest apologies to Walt Whitman:

O Fiduciary! My Fiduciary! Our fearful trip is (nearly) done,
The rule has weather'd every attack, the prize we seek is within grasp,
A new standard is near, the lobbying I hear, the people all exulting.

I don't know about you, but I'm certainly "exulting." Not just because the regulatory sausage-making may soon be done but because, frankly, I've heard enough of the Department of Labor's wait-for-it, it's-coming-any-moment-now, soon-to-be-unveiled fiduciary standard to last a good, long while.

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