Posts from July 2020.
In XY Planning Network, LLC, et al. v. SEC, et al., the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected a challenge to Regulation Best Interest brought by an organization of investment advisers, an individual investment adviser, seven states, and the District of Columbia. The Court denied the Petitioners’ petition, holding that: the individual investment adviser had standing but the states did not, that § 913(f) of the Dodd-Frank Act authorized the SEC’s promulgation of Regulation Best Interest, and that Regulation Best Interest is not arbitrary and ...