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from The Advisor's Professional Library- Agency and Principal Transactions In passing Section 206(3) of the Investment Advisers Act, Congress recognized that principal and agency transactions can be harmful to clients. Such transactions create the opportunity for RIAs to engage in self-dealing.
- Conducting Due Diligence of Sub-Advisors and Third-Party Advisors Engaging in due-diligence of sub-advisors isn’t just a recommended best practice— it is part of the fiduciary obligation to a client. An RIA should be extremely reluctant to enter a relationship with a sub-advisor who claims the firm’s strategy is proprietary.
The Coalition for Indexed Products filed suit on January 16 in a Federal appeals court against the Securities and Exchange Commission over its December 17 decision to regulate equity indexed annuities as securities rather than insurance products. The coalition, a group of eight major insurance companies that issue fixed index annuities, including Allianz Life Insurance Co. of North America, charges in the suit that the SEC overstepped its authority in its ruling. That was the expressed position of SEC Commissioner Troy Parades when he cast the lone dissenting vote on December 17.
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