In a document that reads like a preamble to a single fiduciary standard for financial advisors, Ron Rhoades, an expert on the ethics of financiial advising, has spelled out legal, intellectual, and moral imperatives for regulatory action that would change the relationship between American consumers and advisors.
Rhoades’ immediate goal is to support the Department of Labor and Employee Benefits Security Administration effort to apply ERISA’s fiduciary standard of conduct properly. However, when the history of the financial advice profession is written decades from now, this documen
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