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Institute and Industry Leaders

Women Leading The Finance Industry: Deborah S. Bosley

By Knut Rostad on November 14, 2019

Deborah S. Bosley of The Plain Language Group has been recognized as a woman “leading the finance industry.”

Moisand Fitzgerald Tamayo Wins Prestigious National Award

By Knut Rostad on November 7, 2019

Moisand Fitzgerald Tamayo

Moisand Fitzgerald Tamayo, one of the Institute’s Real Fiduciary™ Practices Advisors, received the 2019 Trailblazer IMPACT Award™.

“Happy 50th Anniversary, Financial Planning Profession” by Dave Yeske

By Knut Rostad on October 30, 2019

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Dave Yeske, on the 50th anniversary of financial planning, notes its achievements and challenges in a balanced and thoughtful piece.

Law professors Denounce SEC’s Reg BI; Underscore the Rule’s Clear Break from 79 Years of Settled Law in Advisers Act of 1940

By Knut Rostad on October 7, 2019

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Columbia Law Professor John Coffee estimates the SEC rulemaking lowered the standard for advisers 75% and raised the standard for brokers 10%.

John Langbein Awarded the Frankel Fiduciary Prize

By Knut Rostad on September 23, 2019

John Langbein and Deborah DeMott

John Langbein, emeritus professor of law at Yale, accepted the Frankel Fiduciary Prize on September 16, 2019.

Financial Advice Isn’t a Profession

By Knut Rostad on August 1, 2019

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Financial advice does not necessitate thousands of hours of study to render. That means that it is not really a profession, according to Dan Solin.

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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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