This article hits on the necessity of the BD industry to raise its game and do what’s right. That requires “principled people to carry [the rules] out.”

Advisors who want to market themselves in a Reg BI world need to show the advantages of working with a fiduciary while underscoring brokers’ weaknesses.

After showing early promise to fix industry self-interest, Reg BI has turned into a symbolic gesture by the SEC.

“The Regulation Best Interest rules are a catastrophe for investors that will become known as Black Wednesday,” Knut Rostad said after emerging from the SEC meeting. “Investors will have to search even more diligently for real fiduciary advisers.”