Still, if one has confidence the marketplace will drive the industry towards focusing on the best interests of clients, then a de facto fiduciary standard can emerge organically, without overt reliance on regulators.
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Be careful what you wish for because sometimes the cure can be worse than the disease.
In the final analysis, we may get the best of both worlds, a reduced regulatory compliance burden with a market that imposes the fiduciary standard.
Schweiss says forcing brokers to abide by a fiduciary standard probably is “not a good strategy any more” and the government is no longer a viable part of the fiduciary solution.
The SEC is asking “how do we constrain fiduciary” instead of the other way around.
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