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            "title": "DOL Rulemaking",
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            "title": "Statement by Chairman Clayton",
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        "title": "General Objectives of Proposed Approach",
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        "title": "Best Interest, Generally",
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            "title": "Consistency with Other Approaches",
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        "title": "Key Terms and Scope of Best Interest Obligation",
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            "title": "When Making a Recommendation, At Time Recommendation is Made",
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            "title": "Any Securities Transaction or Investment Strategy",
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            "title": "Retail Customer",
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        "title": "Whether the Exercise of Investment Discretion Should be Viewed as Solely Incidental to the Business of a Broker or Dealer",
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        "title": "Interactions with Other Standards of Conduct",
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    "title": "ECONOMIC ANALYSIS",
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        "title": "Introduction, Primary Goals of Proposed Regulations and Broad Economic Considerations",
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            "title": "Introduction and Primary Goals of Proposed Regulation",
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            "title": "Broad Economic Considerations",
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        "title": "Benefits, Costs, and Effects on Efficiency, Competition, and Capital Formation",
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                "title": "Standard of Conduct Defined as Best Interest",
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                "title": "Disclosure Obligation",
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                "title": "Obligation to Establish, Maintain, and Enforce Written Policies and Procedures Reasonably Designed to Identify and at a Minimum Disclose, or Eliminate, All Material Conflicts of Interest Associated with a Recommendation",
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                "title": "Obligation to Establish, Maintain, and Enforce Written Policies and Procedures Reasonably Designed to Identify and Disclose and Mitigate, or Eliminate, Material Conflicts of Interest Arising from Financial Incentives Associated with a Recommendation",
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        "title": "Reasonable Alternatives",
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            "title": "Disclosure-Only Alternative",
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            "title": "Principles-Based Standard of Conduct Obligation",
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            "title": "A Fiduciary Standard for Broker-Dealers",
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        "title": "Request for Comment",
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