Fiduciary duty
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SEC’s Daly mulls strategy for e-delivery, recordkeeping clarity, and AI as firms automate
“What if we reimagined disclosure using large language models?”
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Podcast: Marc Steinberg on corporate officer and director liability
Are corporate officers and directors really “fiduciaries” in the way corporate law doctrine would have us believe?
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SEC fines Vanguard, Empower for misleading statements, conflicts of interest
Vanguard and Empower allegedly created conflicts of interest by incentivizing advisers to steer clients toward fee-based services, minus the requisite disclosure.
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SEC and beneficial owners – rethinking proxy voting in a complex system
Efforts to engage with beneficial owners and provide them with mechanisms for influencing governance outcomes appear to be converging with a broader regulatory push for transparency.
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SEC fines Transamerica for fiduciary disclosure failures
Transamerica Retirement Advisors failed to disclose financial conflicts tied to retirement rollovers, affecting thousands of clients.
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Supreme Court relaxes ERISA pleading standard
The outcome makes it substantially easier for beneficiaries to sue their fund administrators.
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SEC fines Momentum Advisors, two officers $500,000+ over fiduciary breaches
Momentum Advisors LLC, along with its former COO and CCO, were charged with violations related to the misuse of portfolio company assets.
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SEC settles charges involving fiduciary duty lapses against firm, IA rep
Both had allegedly failed to adequately consider if it was in their clients’ best interest to convert brokerage accounts to advisory ones.