The Rule is supported by more than 125 local, state, and national groups and individuals representing labor, the financial industry, consumer advocacy, retirement savers and others:

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• AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons)

• Accountable.US

• Actors' Equity Association (AEA)

• Affordable Homeownership Foundation Inc.

• Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA)

• Alliance for a Just Society

• Alliance for Retired Americans (ARA)

• Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU)

• American Association for Justice

• American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO (AFGE)

• American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)

• American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM)

• American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)

• American Federation of Teachers (AFT)

• American Postal Workers Union (APWU)

• American Transit Union (ATU)

• Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund

• Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) - AFL-CIO

• Asset Building Strategies

• Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA)

• Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Milers International Union (BCTGM)

• Better Markets

• Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS)

• California Low-Income Consumer Coalition

• Center for American Progress

• Center for Economic and Policy Research

• Center for Economic Integrity

• Center for Economic Justice

• CFP Board (Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards)

• Coalition on Human Needs

• Communications Workers of America (CWA)

• Consumer Action

• Consumer Federation of America

• Consumer Federation of California

• Consumer Reports

• Consumer Technology Association

• Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety

• DC Consumer Rights Coalition

• Delaware Community Reinvestment Action Council, Inc.

• DPL Financial

• Economic Opportunity Institute

• Economic Policy Institute

• ​Financial Planning Association

• FL National Organization for Women

• Gerontological Society of America

• Global Policy Solutions 

• Greater Orlando National Organization for Women

• In the Public Interest

• Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

• Institute for the Fiduciary Standard 

• Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility

• International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE)

• International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF)

• International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW)

• International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART)

• International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)

• International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE)

• International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots (MM&P)

• International Plate Printers, Die Stampers, Plate Makers & Engravers of North America

• International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (IUBAC)

• International Union of Painters & Allied Trades (IUPAT)

• International Union of Police Associations (IUPA)

• Jewish Women International

• Justice in Aging

• Latino Farmers & Ranchers International, Inc.

• The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

• Life Insurance Consumer Advocacy Center (LICAC)

• Maritime Trades Department

• Massachusetts Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth

• Massachusetts Teachers Association

• Metal Trades Department, AFL-CIO

• Morningstar

• NAACP

• National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE)

• National Association of Agriculture Employees

• National Association of Consumer Advocates

• National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA)

• National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD)

• National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare

• National Consumers League

• National Council on Aging

• National Education Association (NEA)

• National Employment Law Project

• National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE-IAM)

• National Immigration Law Center

• National Organization for Women (NOW)

• National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives 

• National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU)

• National Women's Law Center

• NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice

• NJSaves

• North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc.

• Pension Rights Center

• Poverty Project at the Institute for Policy Studies

• Pride At Work

• Private Equity Stakeholder Project

• Progressive Change Campaign Committee

• Prosperity Indiana

• Public Citizen

• Public Good Law Center

• Public Investors Advocate Bar Association (PIABA)

• Public Justice Center

• Seafarers International Union (AFL-CIO) (SIU)

• Securities Arbitration Clinic, St. John’s University School of Law

• Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

• Social Security Works

• The Center for Economic Justice

• The Committee for the Fiduciary Standard

• The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW)

• Transport Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO (TWU)

• Tzedek DC

• U.S. Public Interest Research Group (USPIRG)

• UnidosUS

• Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice

• UNITE HERE!

• United Auto Workers (UAW)

• United Mine Workers of America (UMWA)

• United Steelworkers (USW)

• USPIRG

• Virginia Citizens Consumer Council

• Voices Organized in Civic Engagement (VOICE)

• Woodstock Institute

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Individuals who have expressed support for the rule:

• Phyllis Borzi, Independent Consultant and Former Assistant Secretary for Employee Benefits Security of the United States Department of Labor

• Benjamin Perry Edwards, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

• Dr. Irene Leech, Virginia Tech

• Dana M. Muir, Robert L. Dixon Collegiate Professor of Business, University of Michigan

• Nancy Olumekor, Director, APWU Retirees Department

• Prof. Lauren Valastro, University of Denver Sturm College of Law

• Peter Wiedenbeck, Joseph H. Zumbalen Professor of the Law of Property, Washington University School of Law

• Prof. James A. Wooten, University at Buffalo School of Law, The State University of New York