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Fiduciary September

Watch: 2020 Frankel Fiduciary Prize Program

By Knut Rostad on September 29, 2020

Tamar Frankel, Luis Aguilar, Phyllis Borzi, and Harold Evensky gave glowing endorsements of Ron Rhoades’ fiduciary career during the Frankel Fiduciary Prize Webinar.

SEC’s Reg BI Gives Sued Financial Companies A Legal Advantage, Profs Say

By Knut Rostad on September 12, 2020

The SEC’s new Regulation Best Interest will give financial institutions a legal advantage when they’re sued by investors.

Until Reg BI enforcement starts, we’ll have to take brokers’ word it’s working

By Knut Rostad on September 10, 2020

Or you can rely on state securities regulators to provide data about advice reform.

Ex-Obama DOL official Phyllis Borzi, the ‘Godmother’ of ERISA, Speaks on Current DOL Rule

By Knut Rostad on September 4, 2020

Phyllis C. Borzi

The Trump administration is trying to wave a magic wand, and it’s going to work, but it may make matters worse for the pro-suitability lobby if Joe Biden becomes President

Four Distinguished Law Professors Discuss 2020 Financial Advice Landscape

By Knut Rostad on September 3, 2020

justice

Four leading law professors shared their views on recent developments for financial advice in 2020.

Mourning the Passing of the 40 Act

By Knut Rostad on September 2, 2020

The 40 Act has been effectively repealed. But its passing has gone unnoticed. In the long shadow of the market crash and severe depression, the 40 Act was the equivalent of investors’ civil rights legislation.

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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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