Is Your Technology Working Against You?

Technology is meant to simplify things, make the financial advisory business more efficient and save advisors time. When Mike Damas set up his independent RIA firm Maryland Capital Advisors in 2005, he found that the technology system he’d invested in...

Hensarling to Cordray: You Should Be Fired

House Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) told CFPB Director Richard Cordray Wednesday that President Trump should fire him immediately for violations of federal law. Even before Cordray (pictured) began testifying at a sometimes-heated committee...

UPDATE: DOL Releases Its Delay of Fiduciary Rule

The Justice Department told a federal court on Tuesday that the Office of Management and Budget has concluded its review of the Labor Department’s final rule delaying the implementation date of its fiduciary rule by 60 days — from April 10 to June 9....

DOJ Says DOL Fiduciary Rule Delay Coming Wednesday

A Department of Justice filing on April 3 indicates that the Department of Labor will officially institute a delay of its fiduciary rule Wednesday morning. DOJ told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that the Office of Management and Budget...