CFA Institute, charter to 150,000 fiduciaryinvestment professionals globally, is calling on the Securities andExchange Commission to take immediate regulatory action that wouldprohibit non-fiduciary investment brokers from holding themselvesout as investment advisers.
In a recent comment letter to the SEC, the Institute raises thelong-standing and controversial practice of brokers operating underthe title of “investment adviser” without registering as afiduciary with the SEC.
Brokers registered with FINRA are held to a suitability standard whenrecommending an investment, a lower threshold of care than thefiduciary best-interest standard that registered investmentadvisors are held to. The SEC registers and regulates RIAs underthe Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
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