2024 was a year of meaningful regulatory change for asset managers globally. The regulatory activity was wide ranging and without a particular unifying theme. In fact, the wide, and in cases diverging focuses of key global...more
2/12/2025
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Sustainable Finance
An investment professional who provides advice to an investor who has a 401(k), an annuity, and a brokerage account is subject to regulation by no less than five regulators: the Securities and Exchange Commission...more
As we wait to see if the Department of Labor (DOL) will appeal the 5th Circuit’s mid-March ruling that vacated the DOL’s fiduciary rule, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is also making news on the fiduciary front....more
The Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) fiduciary rule (“DOL Fiduciary Rule”) became applicable June 9, 2017, after an intense multiyear regulatory saga involving multiple governmental actors and virtually every mutual fund company...more