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Institute Initiatives

Actions and programs of the Institute.  Visit the Institute Initiatives archive to view initiatives prior to 2018.

Personal Financial Planning Program Webinars

By Knut Rostad on March 23, 2020

A note from Knut A. Rostad In September 2018, the Institute awarded the Frankel Fiduciary Prize to Harold Evensky at Texas Tech in Lubbock. While on campus I spoke before several classes and saw first hand the interest of students in the subject of fiduciary duties. Since then, in collaboration with two Personal Financial Planning […]

John H. Langbein Wins Frankel Fiduciary Prize

By Knut Rostad on August 13, 2019

The Institute for the Fiduciary Standard today announced that the 2019 Frankel Fiduciary Prize honoree is John H. Langbein.

Differentiation for RIAs in a Reg BI World

By Knut Rostad on June 18, 2019

Differentiation Advisors Reg BI

Reg BI is now a reality. How do independent real fiduciary advisers effectively differentiate what they do from what the brokerage industry says?

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

By Knut Rostad 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.

The EU leapfrogs the US on investor protection

By Knut Rostad on April 22, 2019

By Knut A. Rostad and Darren M. Fogarty
MiFID II’s standard raises the transparency bar well above the U.S. SEC’s proposed Regulation BI and Form CRS.

Testimony to the Maryland Senate Finance Committee

By Knut Rostad on March 13, 2019

Maryland State House - via Wikimedia Commons

Testimony of Knut A. Rostad . President & Co-Founder Institute for the Fiduciary Standard, March 13, 2019, to the Maryland Senate Finance Committee on SB 786 and House Economic Matters Committee on HB 1127 on Section 5.

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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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