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SEC Proposes Rule to Protect Investors, Nest Eggs

The long struggle too protect investors from conflicted advice has taken one step forward and two steps back.

A U.S. Department of Labor rule that was set to take full effect in mid 2019 would have made all financial professionals giving advice on retirement accounts subject to a "fiduciary" duty to put clients' interests first. But it suffered a near-fatal blow in

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