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Knut Rostad

Come Together

By Knut Rostad on July 30, 2014

    Published July 29th, 2014 By Bob Clark   Back in June, Financial-Planning.com put a curious headline on a story: “NAPFA Faces Member Loss After Fee-Only Rule Change.” You may remember that the rule change in question ended NAPFA’s allowing its fee-only members to own up to 2% of commission-charging financial services businesses. Simply […]

It will take a profession to enhance standards

By Knut Rostad on July 22, 2014

The Dodd-Frank law was enacted just four years ago in the backdrop of a crisis — a crisis some observers say came perilously close to the collapse of the financial system.

Raymond James, the New Borders Bookstore?

By Knut Rostad on May 28, 2014

  Originally published on ThinkAdvisor.com, May 27, 2014 By Knut A. Rostad Recent statements by two brokerage industry leaders suggest a new way for fiduciary advocates to reframe the fiduciary regulatory battle. Think “disruptive innovation.” First, SIFMA president Ken Bentsen, the voice of the brokerage industry in Washington, recently wrote an extraordinary column on fiduciary […]

Fiduciary Institute to Craft Fiduciary Best Practices that Investors Want

By Knut Rostad on May 13, 2014

The Institute for the Fiduciary Standard today announced the formation of a Best Practices Board to craft fiduciary best practices for investment and financial advisors.

Is DOL Fiduciary a ‘Solution in Search of a Problem?’ Consider the Data

By Knut Rostad on March 7, 2014

  Originally published on ThinkAdvisor.com, March 6, 2014 By Knut A. Rostad Critics of the Department of Labor’s initiative to modernize the 40-year old fiduciary standard under ERISA like to say, despite the mounds of research that suggest the opposite is true, that there’s no need to update the fiduciary standard under ERISA. They assert […]

SEC’s Piwowar talks fiduciary, money fund reform

By Knut Rostad on January 29, 2014

  Fiduciary is ‘really, really, really’ tough, commissioner tells U.S. Chamber of Commerce   Published in Investment News on January 27, 2014 Written by Mark Schoeff Jr. One of the newest members of the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday expressed doubt that it should propose a rule raising investment advice standards for brokers, advocating instead for […]

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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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