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Why Should I Care if My Financial Advisor is a Fiduciary?

By Knut Rostad on February 21, 2019

US House Committee - Via Wikimedia

Why should you as an investor care if your financial advisor is a fiduciary? Here are some thoughts on this for those looking for a financial advisor or who are already working with one.

Getting to Trust

By Knut Rostad on February 18, 2019

Mark Tibergien and Tim Hockey

Last week two RIA leaders made important remarks illustrating the public’s distrust of financial services.

Maryland bill would impose fiduciary duty on brokers, insurance reps

By Knut Rostad on February 9, 2019

Maryland House Chambers

New Maryland bill would require financial professionals to act ‘without regard to’ their own financial gains

Tributes to John Bogle pour in from SEC, retirees, and a Collegeville pizza parlor

By Knut Rostad on January 21, 2019

John C. Bogle

Tributes from around Philadelphia, and the country, have poured in for the late Vanguard founder John C. Bogle, who insisted everyone call him “Jack.”

A Thousand Points of Fiduciary Light

By Knut Rostad on January 18, 2019

AJ Guel [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

The case for a real fiduciary standard is a case for the values and principles that are vital, self-evident and indisputable – like the values that inspired our nation’s founders. And that the country heard last month in eulogies for George H. W. Bush.

“Press on, regardless”

By Knut Rostad on January 17, 2019

John "Jack" Bogle

Jack Bogle richly deserves the huge accolades he is receiving. He was a model public servant operating in the private sector.

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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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