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Difference Between a Broker and an Advisor

By Knut Rostad on March 30, 2021

Darren Fogarty, Employee Benefits Advisor at Wincline, describes the differences between brokers and fee-only advisors.

Harold Evensky to SEC: “CHANGE THE DAMN NAME” of Regulation Best Interest

By Knut Rostad on March 1, 2021

Evensky, financial and investment advice pioneer, author and professor, urges SEC to rename the Reg BI, ‘New Suitability’

CFA Society Orlando Interviews Tamar Frankel

By Knut Rostad on February 24, 2021

Chris Cannon, board member of the Institute’s Real Fiduciary™ Practices, interviews Boston University Professor of Law Emerita, Tamar Frankel.

Is Financial Planning a Profession? Does it Matter?

By Knut Rostad on February 10, 2021

Skip Schweiss wants planners and consumers to know financial planning is not yet a profession.

Sanderson Wealth Management

By Darren Fogarty on January 31, 2021

Sanderson Wealth Management 50 Fountain Plaza, Suite 750 Buffalo, NY 140202 Justin Sanderson, VP and Chief Compliance Officer (716) 566-2522 justin@sandersonllc.com www.SandersonLLC.com Services Comprised of a full suite of services including investment consulting, financial management consulting, business succession planning, estate and generational wealth planning, tax consulting, and philanthropic consulting, our Private Wealth Advisers offer a […]

Fiduciary Leaders Call on SEC to Repair Defects of Rulemakings and Interpretation to Restore Investor Trust

By Knut Rostad on January 28, 2021

Major repairs to Reg BI, Form CRS and Adviser Act guidance are proposed to affirm broker and adviser differences and to level with investors

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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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