Key Takeaways The SEC Division of Examinations has issued its 2026 fiscal year Examination Priorities. The Priorities include a focus on older investors, investing for retirement and rollovers. This article discusses those priorities. The SEC Division of Examinations has published its 2026 Examination Priorities. (2026-exam-priorities.pdf) While the Priorities are far
Key Takeaways FINRA’s 2025 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report 2025-annual-regulatory-oversight-report.pdf included a focus on issues related to retirees and senior investors. The Report provides guidance to broker-dealers about the priorities of FINRA in its regulation, supervision and enforcement programs for broker-dealers. In other words, it is one of FINRA’s ways of
Key Takeaways FINRA’s 2024 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report 2024 FINRA Annual Regulatory Oversight Report | FINRA.org included a focus on issues related to retirees and senior investors. The Report provides guidance to broker-dealers about the priorities of FINRA in its regulation, supervision and enforcement programs for broker-dealers. In other words,
Key Takeaways Over 11,000 people are reaching age 65 every day and most have retired or are contemplating retirement. Many of those retirees will rollover money from retirement plans, including 401(k) plans, into IRAs. The IRA investments will need to provide sustainable retirement income for the lifetimes of those retirees,
Key Takeaways The DOL’s new regulation defining fiduciary advice to include one-time recommendations has been stayed, but advisers who make ongoing individualized recommendations to ERISA-governed retirement plans, participants in those plans, and IRA owners continue to be fiduciaries subject to fiduciary standards. Those standards—prudence and loyalty—can be called a best
Key Takeaways Two Texas Federal District Courts have “stayed” the effective dates of the DOL’s new fiduciary regulation and related exemptions, meaning that the private sector will not have to comply with those rules until the cases are resolved and if the guidance is vacated, those rules will never be
Key Takeaways Two Texas Federal District Courts have “stayed” the effective dates of the DOL’s new fiduciary regulation and related exemptions, meaning that the private sector will not have to comply with those rules until the cases are resolved and if the guidance is vacated, those rules will never be
Key Takeaways Two Texas Federal District Courts have “stayed” the effective dates of the DOL’s new fiduciary regulation and related exemptions, meaning that the private sector will not have to comply with those rules until the cases are resolved. As a result, one-time recommendations to plans, participants and IRAs will
Key Takeaways Two Texas Federal District Courts have “stayed” the effective dates of the DOL’s new fiduciary regulation and related exemptions, meaning that the private sector will not have to comply with those rules until the cases are resolved. The next step will be for those courts to determine if
Key Takeaways Two Texas Federal District Courts have “stayed” the effective dates of the DOL’s new fiduciary regulation and related exemptions, meaning that the private sector will not have to comply with those rules until the cases are resolved. The next step will be for those courts to determine if
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