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Knut Rostad

Is Financial Planning a Profession? Does it Matter?

By Knut Rostad on February 10, 2021

Skip Schweiss wants planners and consumers to know financial planning is not yet a profession.

Gary Gensler: Joe Biden’s Joseph P. Kennedy

By Knut Rostad on January 14, 2021

If Gensler, who is uniquely well-suited for the task, becomes the SEC chairperson, it will harken back to the SEC’s origins.

SEC Holiday Cheer for Investors

By Knut Rostad on December 24, 2020

Knut A. Rostad

A year-end SEC order and statement by its staff on Reg BI exams are a positive signal for investors in need of fiduciary protection.

Students Worry About Being Corrupted on Wall Street

By Knut Rostad on October 21, 2020

Knut Rostad summarizes his recent interview with Princeton lecturer JC de Swaan on virtue in finance.

Fiduciary Advice: Where Do We Go From Here?

By Knut Rostad on October 5, 2020

View of Wall Street. Photo credit: Chris Li on Unsplash

An historic realignment of fiduciary advice has snuffed out 40 Act principles. The realignment reveals a path of destruction – to the law, language and logic.

Mourning the Passing of the 40 Act

By Knut Rostad on September 2, 2020

The 40 Act has been effectively repealed. But its passing has gone unnoticed. In the long shadow of the market crash and severe depression, the 40 Act was the equivalent of investors’ civil rights legislation.

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Chris Cannon, board member of the Institute's Real Fiduciary™ Practices and CFA Society Orlando, interviews Boston University Professor of Law Emerita, Tamar Frankel.

Frankel explains what led her to spend her career focusing on fiduciary law, what it means to be a fiduciary, and what conflicts of interest exist within the advisory space. She then offers her thoughts on what regulators should do to help eliminate these conflicts.

Carolyn McClanahan

 

"With the advent of 401(k)s and the decimation of pension plans to ensure financial security in old age, a fiduciary standard is more important than ever. The public needs to be confidant that advisors helping them plan for their retirement years always and only act in their best interest as a fiduciary. I'm happy to endorse organizations such as the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard that promote protections for those who need to secure their financial future."

- Carolyn McClanahan, Founder of Life Planning Partners

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