Various policy interventions aim at preventing consumers from inadequate financial advice. One important issue that is often subject to intense discussions is the regulation of financial advisors compensation. In most countries, financial advisors are remunerated by product providers via commissions. Concerns are, that this practice leads to biased advice, since an advisor then has an incentive to recommend the product with the highest commission instead of the most suitable product. In order to circumvent the aforementioned incentive problems, consumer protection agencies and regulators propose that financial advisors should exclusively be compensated by consumers via a fee-for-advice. Even though, enacting a ban on commissions constitute...