Come April 2017, when advisors to 401(k) sponsors and IRAaccounts recommend fixed indexed and variable annuities toretirement savers, they’ll do so under the Best Interest ContractExemption, the provision of the Department of Labor’s finalizedfiduciary rule that will make those advisors legally beholden to dowhat is in savers’ best interests.
In subjecting FIAs and VAs to the BIC exemption, the DOL singledout the products for their “risks and complexities,” according tolanguage in the finalized fiduciary rule.
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