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Stephen Ellis
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DOL Fiduciary Rule Reportedly Delayed, but Industry Itself Is on Path to More Fiduciary Practices

While it’s been reported that the U.S. Department of Labor has requested an 18-month delay to the implementation of the second phase of its fiduciary rule to July 2019 from January 2018, we continue to see evidence that the U.S. financial industry has already begun reducing conflicts of interest between financial advisors and their clients. The delay to the rule was largely expected, as President Trump directed the Department of Labor to re-study the effects of the rule. Additionally, extra time...
Underlying
Ameriprise Financial Inc.

Ameriprise Financial is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of products and services to individual and institutional clients. The company's segments are: Advice and Wealth Management, which provides financial planning and advice, as well as brokerage services, to retail clients through its advisors; Asset Management, which provides investment management, advice and products to clients through the Columbia Threadneedle Investments? brand; Annuities, which provides variable and fixed annuity products to clients; and Protection, which provides products to address the protection and risk management needs of the company's retail clients including life, disability income insurance.

Provider
Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Stephen Ellis

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