Advocacy Action Center

Our principle value proposition for independent broker-dealers and independent financial advisors is advocacy. And advocacy is not a spectator sport. It’s involvement, engagement, influence, education, and awareness. Our Advocacy Action Center includes intelligence and insight on all the issues – along with who’s who in Washington – and is designed to help you get involved with simple but effective steps. Write a comment letter, call your representatives in Congress, or print and send an issue briefing or a white paper. You can be an active part of the cause without ever leaving your desktop.

Our advocacy agenda in 2013 includes:

• Opposing the Department of Labor’s proposal to ban the earning of commissions on IRA advice by redefining the term “fiduciary”;
• Supporting federal legislation that will ensure the ability of independent broker-dealers to classify their registered representatives as independent contractors;
• Opposing SIPC efforts that are intended to make broker-dealers guarantors of investor losses;
• Opposing regulatory efforts that will undermine the viability of money market mutual funds;
• Opposing legislation designed to establish public pensions for private workers; and
• Opposing efforts to adopt a securities transaction tax.

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