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Compliance Week: Conviction, moral fortitude define Lifetime Achievement winner Tamar Frankel

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Article originally appeared at Compliance Week

It is Compliance Week’s pleasure to honor Frankel for Lifetime Achievement in Compliance at the 2022 Excellence in Compliance Awards.

Born in Tel Aviv in 1925, Frankel’s 50-year career as a law professor at Boston University (BU) School of Law more than satisfies a checklist of lifetime achievement credentials on its own. Her title now is Professor of Law Emerita, Latin meaning “having served out one’s time; having done sufficient service.” Certainly, she has done that.

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Frankel is the winner of Compliance Week’s 2022 Lifetime Achievement in Compliance award, but in her case the name of the honor ought to be changed to “Lifetime Achiever Award”—because she never stops.

Frankel will turn 97 years old on July 4, and she is writing her 12th book. Yet, fame has never been her aim, she said. Once a teacher, always a teacher: She gets tremendous satisfaction out of knowing people in various parts of the world read her books and learn something from them.

Asked whether she prefers teaching or writing, Frankel paused. “I would say it’s easier for me to write now,” she replied eventually. “Writing lasts longer.”

The beneficiaries of her instruction—those throngs of former students who are now lawyers, judges, academics, writers, and government officials themselves—might disagree.

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Dan Moisand

 

Dan Moisand is a nationally recognized fiduciary fee-only financial planner, an Institute Real Fiduciary™ Advisor and Chair-elect of the CFP Board.

The Institute has enshrined the ‘Moisand Rule’ on fiduciary practices. It is basic and is more important today than ever: “You have to avoid conflicts. If I avoid a conflict, I don’t worry about it.”

Watch the video of Moisand speaking here.

Bob Veres

 

Bob Veres is a long term observer of financial planning. His Newsletter, “Inside information” Is a staple of leading planners. In the May edition he writes about fiduciary and the Institute.

"But a much bigger point is that the fiduciary standard—as Knut Rostad of the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard has pointed out—has been determined by the Supreme Court (1963 ruling) to be at the very heart of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. It is the foundation of what it means to be an RIA registered with the SEC instead of a tipster or a tout."

- Bob Veres, Parting Thoughts ... The SEC's Own Compliance Culture