Remove Compliance Remove Fee Only Remove Professional Services
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Reclaiming Professionalism

Inside Information

The broker-dealers would tell their reps (and some still do) that if they were to venture outside of the BD’s compliance umbrella and go fee-only, the SEC would come after them with a vengeance. Or that FINRA is going to take over the regulation of all advice-givers, and bring the hammer down on those fee-only ‘rogue brokers.’