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Conflicts & Capital Allocation, Benjamin P. Edwards
Conflicts & Capital Allocation, Benjamin P. Edwards
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The regulatory structure for financial advice now tolerates incentives motivating financial advisors to manipulate and deceive retail investors. While scholars thus far have argued for ways to improve investor protections, the literature has largely ignored how these flawed incentives affect the economy.
This Article contends that these flawed incentives cause financial advisors to negatively affect capital allocation throughout the overall economy.
This Article draws on literature about manipulation and deception in principal-agent relationships to show how conflicts of interest cause the market for financial advisor services to generate excessive intermediation, driving harms to the real economy. This Article uses case …