Why should you as an investor care if your financial advisor is a fiduciary? Here are some thoughts on this for those looking for a financial advisor or who are already working with one.
Getting to Trust
Last week two RIA leaders made important remarks illustrating the public’s distrust of financial services.
Maryland bill would impose fiduciary duty on brokers, insurance reps
New Maryland bill would require financial professionals to act ‘without regard to’ their own financial gains
Tributes to John Bogle pour in from SEC, retirees, and a Collegeville pizza parlor
Tributes from around Philadelphia, and the country, have poured in for the late Vanguard founder John C. Bogle, who insisted everyone call him “Jack.”
A Thousand Points of Fiduciary Light
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The case for a real fiduciary standard is a case for the values and principles that are vital, self-evident and indisputable – like the values that inspired our nation’s founders. And that the country heard last month in eulogies for George H. W. Bush.
“Press on, regardless”
Jack Bogle richly deserves the huge accolades he is receiving. He was a model public servant operating in the private sector.
