In Episode #28 of NAPFA Nation, host Marie Swift sits down with Knut A Rostad, MBA, President and Co-Founder of the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard.
In this episode, Rostad explores:
✅ Why the fiduciary standard is losing ground at the SEC—and what fee-only advisors can do about it
✅ The roots of fee-only financial planning and why history matters
✅ NAPFA’s critical role in upholding the fiduciary standard
✅ What he’s most looking forward to at the 2025 NAPFA Spring Conference (May 7–10 in Phoenix)
🎧 Tune in now for a thought-provoking conversation you won’t want to miss!
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The Institute for the Fiduciary Standard
A resource site for investors, brokers, academics and the media.
Building a fiduciary culture of honesty, integrity, and expertise.
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