The service will help match advisors from Advisor Group’s four B-Ds as well as practices outside the network.
The purchase gets E*Trade, with $365 billion in individual-investor assets, into the RIA custody business.
New rules are coming for accounts where RIAs are authorized to move money or pay bills to third parties.
Investors should look to other continents when in search of diversification, the study says.
The EBSA is responsible for crafting and implementing the fiduciary rule.
The rule requiring advisors to act in clients' best interest might be extended to July 2019.
The U.S. has the most consumer-friendly fees and disclosures, but, oh, those capital gains taxes, Morningstar says.
Finra will create a two-tier examination system and allow more flexibility in obtaining and maintaining licenses.
Chairman Jay Clayton says the agency is working on it.
Separately, LPL recently put in place a $50 million LPL-custodied asset minimum for new hybrid advisors.