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Knut Rostad

Advisors Urged To Commit To Code Of Conduct

By Knut Rostad on September 21, 2016

Originally published in Financial Advisor Magazine By Greg Bresinger, 19 September 2016 The advisory industry has “a cloud over it.” There’s also a lot of “terrible advice” that serves the needs of firms, not individual clients, who often aren’t aware of how they are hurt. Those were some of the comments of advisory industry critics […]

Institute for Fiduciary Standard begins program to hold advisers publicly accountable

By Knut Rostad on September 21, 2016

InvestmentNews

The Institute for the Fiduciary Standard has started a program for financial advisers that’s designed to demonstrate they’re adhering to best practices when engaging with investors.

What Investors Can Learn About An Advisor’s Conflicts in Form ADV: ‘But Were Not Sure How to Ask’

By Knut Rostad on September 13, 2016

Welcome to The Institute for the Fiduciary Standard

RIAs DNA of objective investment advice is embedded in the Advisers Act of 1940. What’s often over-looked, however, are differences among RIAs on measures in the Adviser’s Form ADV that serve as ‘fiduciary indicators’. The research identifies some of these indicators and explores some of these differences.

Fiduciary September 2016: The Rise of Consumerism

By Knut Rostad on September 8, 2016

Fiduciary September 2016 seeks to address the picture of persistent investor doubts – in an otherwise upbeat new world of 2016, where emerging market dynamics raise investor expectations and awareness and effectively establish a higher investor standard.

Does Banking Deserve its Bronze Medal from Wall Street?

By Knut Rostad on August 18, 2016

“Americans are more invested in the resilient private economy than in their public leaders.”

The Super Woman of Fee Only and Fiduciary

By Knut Rostad on July 26, 2016

Last week Mary Malgoire was interviewed by national radio host, Jill Schlesinger CFP®. Schlesinger is the Emmy-nominated, Business Analyst for CBS News and hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, Jill on Money. Listen to this great interview on our site.

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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

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