Barbara Roper is an outspoken advocate for effective regulation to protect the public from predatory practices, and she’s often critical of watered-down rules friendly to the industry. As director of investor protection for the Consumer Federation of America, she makes frequent targets of Reg BI and the Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule. She has a lot to say about where we are with the new administration and what the near future holds.
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