01.08.2018 09.08 CDT

A recent study provides strong evidence that the financial industry implicitly tolerates adviser misconduct and that certain firms have created a secondary market for advisers who engage in misconduct.

Patterns of How the Financial Industry Tolerates Misconduct

Patterns of How the Financial Industry Tolerates Misconduct

This paper helps demonstrate how it is not enough for plan fiduciaries to rely on regulatory rules to protect against predatory behavior; as in so many horror movies, the predator is already inside the house.

A recent paper raises some important - and troubling - issues about how the financial industry treats advisers who engage in serious misconduct. The paper demonstrates how investment adviser misconduct is tolerated and how advisers who engage in misconduct are likely to be concentrated in certain firms.