Thursday, May 10, 2012

Stock Broker Legal Status

Stock and bond brokers these days are expected to observe more fiduciary rules when discussing investments with clients. In the past, all they were obligated to do was see that investments were suitable for their clients.

Under fiduciary rules, brokers could be sued by tort lawyers for any imagined infraction and/or lack of explanation. This makes the broker’s job too scary for any practitioner to contemplate keeping.

It’s a possibility even for efficient stock brokers, that can drive them all out of business. They tend to drift instead into the advisory sector of the securities business.(See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments.

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