advertising regulations

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  BrightScope, Spaulding Group Propose Universal Performance Standard

  By Danielle Andrus, AdvisorOne  |  May 22, 2012

  BrightScope and The Spaulding Group released on Tuesday a white paper calling for an industry consensus on performance standards for financial advisors.

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  Advertising Advisor Services and Credentials

  By Les Abromovitz  |  January 1, 2012

  Section 206 of the Investment Advisers Act contains the anti-fraud provision of the statute and ensures that RIAs’ advertising and marketing practices are consistent with the fiduciary duty owed to clients and prospective clients.   

• FINRA to Take Closer Look at Mutual Fund Advertising

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  July 29, 2011

  Responding to mutual fund companies that charge the regulator fails to consistently communicate new interpretations of existing advertising rules for mutual funds, FINRA says it will change its ways.