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Advisers, experts either hate SEC advice reforms or love them

By Knut Rostad on June 6, 2019

U.S. Flag at Washington government building - Photo by Brandon Mowinkel on Unsplash

“The Regulation Best Interest rules are a catastrophe for investors that will become known as Black Wednesday,” Knut Rostad said after emerging from the SEC meeting. “Investors will have to search even more diligently for real fiduciary advisers.”

Meet Margaret from Maryland

By Knut Rostad on May 14, 2019

Margaret of Maryland

Meet Margaret from Maryland. She had been relying on the advice of brokers for many years but contacted a fiduciary (CFP®) for a second opinion when the broker recommended that she buy another annuity to add to the two she’d already been sold.

Scott MacKillop Wins Investments & Wealth Institute Governance Insight Award

By Knut Rostad on May 13, 2019

Scott MacKillop

First Ascent Asset Management, a portfolio strategist serving financial advisors, today announced that its founder and CEO, Scott MacKillop, is the recipient of the Investments & Wealth Institute’s 2019 Governance Insight Award.

Professor Frankel testifies in Boston for Institute

By Knut Rostad on May 3, 2019

Massachusetts State House, Boston |Source=Photo taken by Daderot

“With the information required by Massachusetts, clients can engage in intelligent conversations with an investment professional and can better comprehend a firm’s value proposition…”

Institute commends Massachusetts disclosure on fees and services as “Straight Talk”

By The Institute on May 2, 2019

Massachusetts State House, Boston |Source=Photo taken by Daderot

The proposed Massachusetts Adviser Straight Talk Disclosure is a simple, direct and commonsense approach to informing adviser clients of key information. It can increase investor comprehension of fees and services.

Jason Zweig: The Institute Does Good Work

By Knut Rostad on December 5, 2018

Jason Zweig - via Twitter

MarketCounsel Summit, 12-5-18, on a panel discussion on where investors can get help on screening for a real fiduciary advisor.

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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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