IIROC to post webcast on fiduciary standards
Later this afternoon, the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) will be posting on its website a recorded webcast considering the Canadian and U.S. perspectives on fiduciary standards and the differences between such a standard and the suitability standard. The webcast will be available for viewing as of 4:00 p.m. today.
As we wrote in March, SEC staff have recently recommended a uniform fiduciary standard for investment advisers and broker-dealers in the U.S. Our colleague Ed Waitzer also considered the standards to which financial advisers in the U.S. and Canada are subject in his post of February 17, 2011.
