The Department of Labor (DOL) published a proposed rule to delay the applicability date of the fiduciary rule from April 10 to June 9. The proposal for the delay will still need to go through a regulatory process, including a 15 day comment period; however we expect that the DOL will make the delay effective immediately upon the final regulation’s publication to the Federal Register. The DOL also announced a 45 day comment period on policy issues raised in the February 3 Presidential Memorandum. There are three possible outcomes at the end of the 45 day comment period. In this Alert, we discuss the regulatory process and when the delay might actually go into effect, as well as the possible outcomes at the end of the 45 day period.

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