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Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal: Traders vs. Investors, “Conflict-Free” Advice & Investing Heroes

By The Institute on January 13, 2022

Investors First Podcast hosts Steve Curley and Chris Cannon interview Jason Zweig, longtime “Intelligent Investor” columnist at the Wall Street Journal.

SEC Highlights Form CRS Issues as Fiduciary, Language Experts Call for Deeper Change

By The Institute on December 24, 2021

An SEC committee is calling out firms over form CRS disclosure inadequacies. Yet fiduciary and plain-language experts believe the SEC’s “call outs” miss the mark.

Is SEC Telling Advisors Not To Call Themselves Fiduciaries In Relationship Summaries?

By The Institute on December 23, 2021

RIAs and their compliance executives are worrying that the SEC is muddying the waters more for consumers by making all financial professionals look the same.

What to Know About Fee-Only Financial Advising

By The Institute on December 15, 2021

Katie Oelker, a personal finance writer at Business Insider, explains fee-only financial advising.

Additional Testing Of Thirty Fee-Only IAs CRS Reveals The Widespread Practice of Omitting Mention Of Fiduciary Status

By The Institute on December 6, 2021

Further testing of Fee-only IAs CRS forms reveal that fiduciary status is frequently omitted

Knut Rostad Awarded “Fiduciary of the Year” by Committee

By The Institute on October 30, 2021

Bob Veres, Owner of Inside Information, interviews Knut Rostad on where the fiduciary world stands amid the amenable regulatory leadership in Washington.

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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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