Republicans on the House Financial Services subcommittee are pushing back on the issue of Registered Investment Advisor user fees, citing the cost to small businesses. But the SEC insists that it cannot conduct adequate RIA examinations without either charging user fees or delegating examination authority to an SRO that will charge user fees. The argument over user fees was prompted by the release, earlier this year, of the Dodd-Frank mandated SEC study on enhancing RIA examinations. Read this complete analysis of the impact at AdvisorFX (sign up for a free trial subscription with full access to all of the planning libraries and client presentations if you are not already a subscriber).

For previous coverage of recent SEC rulemaking in Advisor’s Journal, see SEC Unprepared to Implement a Fiduciary Standard for Broker-Dealers (CC 11-33), SEC Fiduciary Standard Study Answers Few Questions (CC 11-25), Study Finds that Universal Fiduciary Standard Will Hurt Investors (CC 10-97) & What You Don’t Know Yet Might Hurt You: A Broker’s Duties under the Financial Reform Act (CC 10-40).