In May the findings of an SEC staff investigationof pension consultants, the financial advisers that pensions hire to provide objective information, were released.
However, when elements of a story come together in a certain way as to objectively point towards the reality of a situation, it ceases to be some conspiracy notion and moves into the realm of requiring reasonable, objectiveinvestigation.
"The objectiveof this process is to try to see if we can achieve a settled outcome in this antitrust investigation, " said Commission spokesman Antoine Colombani.