The Institute for the Fiduciary Standard

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Building a fiduciary culture of honesty, integrity, and expertise.

Research

The Demise of Fiduciary Advice?

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In this Investments & Wealth Review article, Knut reviews the fiduciary situation at the SEC and offers how Form CRS can be improved to help investors.

How to Choose a Financial Planner

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Knowing how your financial advisor makes money can help you, the consumer, make a well-informed decision. This article attempts to arm consumers with tools they can use to get the best money advice possible.

The Case to Fix Form CRS Disclosure

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Testing reveals CRS forms of Large BDs obscure or omit key facts on core roles/purposes of broker-dealers. Large fee-only RIAs downplay fiduciary status, 5 of 12 omit mentioning their highest legal standard

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