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What We Learned in Fiduciary September

By The Institute on October 18, 2022

Knut discusses emergent themes in 2022’s Fiduciary September, which emphasizes state and private sector leadership amid SEC failure.

Podcast Interview with PLI: Preserving the Highest Duty of Care

By The Institute on October 6, 2022

Knut is interviewed on the fiduciary standard, how the SEC interprets that standard in 2022, and challenges and opportunities ahead.

How to Fix Our Failed Approach to Fiduciary Lobbying

By The Institute on October 3, 2022

Industry commentator, Bob Veres, argues that fiduciary advocates should emphasize the “catastrophic failures” of the brokerage business model.

Bob Veres Review: IA Magazine “Luminaries”: Potential advertisers or “luminaries”?

By The Institute on September 15, 2022

Veres won’t review the 93 firms or 105 individual “finalists” on IA’s list. He DOES list those not nominated, including “Joel Bruckenstein, Angie Herbers, Knut Rostad, Stephanie Bogan”, (and many others)

How Manipulative Language Muddied the Meaning of Advice

By Knut Rostad on September 1, 2022

The 1940 interpretation of investment advice is no longer what it once was. The meaning of conflict has been fundamentally altered as well.

Fiduciary September 2022 Program

By The Institute on August 29, 2022

Luis Aguilar, (left) Advisor to the Institute, will speak Sept 22 on the panel for The 2022 Frankel Prize honoree, Arthur Laby.

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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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