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Edward Jones Takes Step Toward Giving Advisors Discretion

For the first time, Edward D. Jones & Co. has opened the door on allowing its financial advisors’ discretion over client assets. So reports AdvisorHub.

Edward JonesEdward Jones said in a regulatory filing that advisors can buy and sell holdings “whenever” they “deem appropriate and without [client] approval of each transaction” as part of a new managed account program called Financial Advisor Managed Solutions.

A former senior manager at Edward Jones told AdvisorHub that the firm, mindful of possible liability, had traditionally only granted such discretion to portfolio managers in its home office.

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