Obama: Retirement-account brokers need tougher standards

President Barack Obama on Monday afternoon called on the Department of Labor to update long-standing rules governing retirement advice and require more financial advisers to put clients' needs ahead of their own, by adopting the so-called fiduciary standard. The laws governing U.S. retirement accounts date back to a time when most retirees could rely on a pension from their former employer.



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