Tobias Salinger’s 2020 article “A Question of Conflict” won a SABEW award in the Personal Finance category
What Is a Fiduciary Financial Advisor?
Why do so many consumers stumble when asked how brokers and fiduciary advisers differ but can recite blindfolded how a butcher and nutritionist differ? Clue: It’s not “investor confusion.”
CFA Institute Offers Strong Critique of Reg BI
CFA Institute offers candid criticism of Reg BI, Form CRS, and how the SEC still has not defined “best interest”
Optimism Has Guided 82-Year-Old Advisor Through Career Changes and Cancer Treatment – Rethinking 65
Don Rembert, member of the Institute Chairman’s Council, found his passion as a fee-only fiduciary advisor 40 years ago after seeing small business owners struggle.
Institute Comment Letter to Iowa Insurance Divison on “Best Interest Standard of Care for Insurance and Securities Professionals”
The Institute submitted a comment letter to the Iowa Insurance Division on its proposed rulemaking in light of SEC’s Reg BI.
Advisors as Fiduciaries
By Arthur Laby — This Article provides a sustained account of advice giving as a fiduciary activity, and it demonstrates that the dominant approach to defining fiduciary relationships is flawed. Leading academic commentators assert that fiduciary relationships only arise when one party has discretion over the assets or affairs of another.
