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Institute and Industry Leaders

“Fight on the beaches”

By The Institute on March 15, 2023

New pamphlet deploys Winston Churchill and Chief Justice Stone to argue for fiduciary duties.

Richard Wagner: “The Philosopher King” Of financial planning, says Neal Solomon

By The Institute on March 14, 2023

Since his 1990 essay, “To Think Like a CFP”, until his passing in 2017, Wagner led the movement for financial planning’s future. Chapter six of Financial Planning 3.0 is reproduced here.

Marie Swift Offers Marketing Tips

By The Institute on February 28, 2023

Bob Veres reports:

“Marie Swift hit home saying the advisors who provide the most value tend to be the least aggressive marketers.”

Real Fiduciary Advisors Year-End Meeting

By Darren Fogarty on December 17, 2022

The Institute was joined by Ron Rhoades, Phyllis Borzi, Eileen Stevens, and James Tierney for a discussion of “fiduciary” in both 2022 and 2023.

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)

Compliance Week: Conviction, moral fortitude define Lifetime Achievement winner Tamar Frankel

By The Institute on May 16, 2022

Tamar Frankel

Tamar Frankel’s two palpable features, ‘One is a deep well of kindness behind her eyes, the other a formidable air of intelligence.’

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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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