Incorporating robo-advice might make servicing middle market more profitable, Cerulli study says.
Registered investment advisers can be held liable if they don't act in clients' 'sole interest' when it comes to retirement advice.
The penalty is the regulator's largest ever relating to anti-money laundering compliance.
He pitched a fictitious hedge fund to investors and used their money for his personal benefit
Indictment alleges clients were defrauded over a 14-year period.
The Jenkintown, Pa., based unit collected about $7 million in annual fees and commissions under its former employer
Asserts he accepted $244,000 from a friend to help him conceal assets that creditors sought to claim.
The four large brokerages have emerged among the least affected by the heaviest regulation to hit the financial advice market in decades. <i><b>(More: <a href="//www.investmentnews.com/section/fiduciary-focus"" target=""_blank"" rel="noopener">The DOL fiduciary rule covered from every angle</a>)</b></i>
The firm, which did business as Avatar, moved clients into newly created, higher-priced mutual funds without disclosing it.
Louis Martin Blazer III took about $2.35 million from five clients to invest in movie projects in Ponzi-like fashion.
