Best Interest Standard Archive

ACLI Materials

• Fiduciary Rule Overview
• ACLI Analysis of Proposed Fiduciary Regulation
• Concerns about the Proposed Fiduciary Regulation
• The Department of Labor's Proposed Conflict of Interest Rule: Rhetoric vs. Reality
• Obstacles to Advice: How the DOL's Proposed Fiduciary Regulation Could Affect Americans

Letters of Interest

• Congressional Democrats' letter regarding DOL's proposed 18-month delay, 09/15/2017
• ACLI response to DOL's proposed 18-month delay, 09/14/2017
• ACLI response to DOL's request for information about fiduciary regulation and related prohibited transaction exemptions, 08/07/2017
• ACLI response to DOL's request for information, 07/21/2017
• Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) letter to DOL Secretary Acosta, 05/12/2017
  
• House GOP members letter to DOL Secretary Acosta, 05/02/2017
• Senate HELP Committee GOP members letter to DOL Secretary Acosta, 04/28/2017
• ACLI comments to DOL regarding examination of fiduciary rule described in President's memorandum, 04/17/2017
• GOP members of House Education & Workforce Committee letter on fiduciary to DOL, 04/17/2017
• ACLI letter to DOL regarding proposal to extend applicability date of fiduciary rule, 03/13/2017
• ACLI letter to Speaker Ryan on H.J. Res. 88, which disapproves the fiduciary rule, 04/26/2016
• Rep. Gwen Moore's (D-WI) Letter to Office of Management and Budget Regarding Proposed Fiduciary Rule, 03/04/2016
• House Democrat Letter to Office of Management and Budget Regarding Proposed Fiduciary Rule, 02/09/2016
• Rep. Jared Polis's (D-CO) Letter to Office of Management and Budget Regarding Proposed Fiduciary Rule, 02/02/2016 
• Secure Family Coalition letters expressing support for H.R. 4293 and H.R. 4292: letter (PDF) to House Education and the Workforce Committee; and letter (PDF) to House Committee on Ways and Means, 02/01/2016 
• Dear Colleague letter announcing bi-partisan principles on fiduciary, 11/05/2015
• ACLI submits supplemental letter to the Department of Labor regarding the administration's proposed fiduciary rule, 09/24/2015
• House letter to Secretary Perez regarding fiduciary rule, 09/24/2015
• National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) letter, 07/28/2015
• ACLI comment letter to DOL regarding the fiduciary rule (Note: 18 MB File), 07/21/2015
• Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness letter, 07/21/2015
• ACLI letter to Sens. Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), 07/13/2015

Other Materials

• ACLI Congressional testimony supporting appropriately tailored rules that require sales professionals to act in their customers' best interest, 07/13/2017
• ACLI commends SEC Chairman Jay Clayton for taking steps to reexamine standards of conduct, 06/02/2017
• ACLI statement for the Congressional record calling on DOL to issue a further delay of the fiduciary regulation, 05/18/2017
• Amicus brief filed in the ACLI/NAIFA consolidated fiduciary litigation appeal by the Washington Legal Foundation, 05/09/2017
• [VIDEO] Mention of the fiduciary rule by former ACLI president and CEO during the 2016 National Governors Association Winter Meeting, 02/22/2016
• U.S. Chamber Infographic: The Threat to Small Business Retirement Savings, 07/06/2015
• U.S. Chamber Report: Proposed DOL Fiduciary Rule Could Impact 9 Million Small Business Households, 06/09/2015
• NERA Study released on DOL retirement regulation, 03/15/2015
• Paved with Good Intentions, Fraught with Flaws: the Regulatory Impact Analysis in the Department of Labor’s “Fiduciary Rule” 10/05/2015
• A Roadmap to Litigation on the Department of Labor’s 2016 Conflict of Interest Rule, 10/07/2016

Publications and Resources

• Attorney's Letter to Fifth Circuit Requesting Decision by the Court, 02/16/2018
• Attorney's Letter to Fifth Circuit Urging Issuance of Decision on Appeal, 12/08/2017
• ACLI Motion for an Injunction Pending Appeal, 03/11/2017
• ACLI Notice of Appeal, 02/28/2017
• Hearing Transcript, 11/17/2016
• ACLI Reply Brief, 09/16/2016
• ACLI MSJ Brief, 07/08/2016
• ACLI/NAIFA Legal Challenge to DOL Fiduciary Rule, 06/08/2016