Report
Greggory Warren

The SEC’s Regulation Best Interest May Not Be What the Financial Sector Wished For

The investment services and wealth management companies will now have to closely follow the SEC's package of best interest regulations, as the deadline for the Department of Justice to appeal the vacating of the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule to the Supreme Court has passed. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals now only has to issue the mandate putting its vacating of the DOL rule into effect for the DOL rule to effectively disappear. We are currently maintaining our fair value estimates ...
Underlying
BLACKROCK INC.

BlackRock is an investment management firm. The company provides a range of investment and technology services to institutional and retail clients worldwide. Products are provided directly and through intermediaries in a variety of vehicles, including open-end and closed-end mutual funds, iShares? exchange-traded funds, separate accounts, collective investment trusts and other pooled investment vehicles. The company also provides technology services, including the investment and risk management technology platform, Aladdin?, Aladdin Wealth, eFront, Cachematrix and FutureAdvisor, as well as advisory services and solutions to a base of institutional and wealth management clients.

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.

Analysts
Greggory Warren

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