duty
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Fiduciary duty is the highest obligation the law imposes on asset managers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Atkins and SEC’s two other commissioners now argue that stockbrokers already have a strict legal duty to execute trades with the most favorable terms for their clients, making the trade-through rule superfluous.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Is this a sense of duty to his team?
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
A year later, a court ruled that Devon County Council had failed to meet its duty when setting the fees it pays to private care homes.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
“I myself could not have acted in any other way.... The very notion, the very sense of defending the Motherland, was the duty of all the men and all the women too.”
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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