Morningstar's Ryan Leggio reports on the Supreme Court justices' questions during oral arguments in the Jones v Harris case and how they may be leaning.
The legal standards required of brokers may not match investors' expectations of a fiduciary relationship, says Harold Evensky of Evensky & Katz Wealth Management.
New rules should make money market funds even safer, but yields may suffer even more. Morningstar's Christine Benz offers investors a few alternatives to consider.
The Securities and Exchange Commission may move ahead with "harmonization" of broker and investment-adviser rules before deciding whether to propse a rule that would raise investment-advice standards for brokers. That is creating concern in the adviser community.
The SEC has warned investors that advisers may be mishandling their assets. The caution comes after examinations uncovered custody-related problems in one-third of the firms reviewed.
The secretary of Massachusetts told the SEC on Wednesday to ban the use of mandatory pre-dispute arbitration clauses in the contracts of RIAs, saying that such clauses may not be in the best interests of clients.