Keeping Score: Investor Advocates Push for More Broker Disclosure, Including Grades on Exams

To the dismay of most of the nation’s nearly 630,000 brokers, a growing number of investor advocates are pushing for new ways to force the financial-services industry to be more transparent about fees, practices—and even their scores on the so-called Series 7 exam and other licensing tests. Advocates say the efforts have been gaining ground since the financial downturn and the introduction of sweeping Dodd-Frank measures. More in the Wall Street Journal here.