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The Fiduciary Principle and the Best Interests of Average Retail Investors
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently offered a full-throated explication of its premise that investment advisers are subject to a federally imposed fiduciary standard under the Investment Advisers Act (IAA).[1] The premise, grounded in cryptic Supreme Court dicta, served …