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The Frankel Fiduciary Prize

Frankel Fiduciary Prize Selection Committee

The Frankel Fiduciary Prize Selection Committee considers nominations of individuals whose work in the public or private sectors has made significant contributions to preserving or advancing fiduciary principles in public life, or to educating the public about issues related to the fiduciary standard. The Selection Committee considers a broad range of candidates, including regulators, political leaders, academics, journalists, advocates and practitioners.


Michael Koffler
Michael Koffler
Partner
Eversheds Sutherland

Michael Koffler is a partner at Eversheds Sutherland (US), where he guides investment advisers, broker-dealers and investment funds in their compliance with federal and state securities laws and regulations, and SRO rules. Koffler advises clients on the full spectrum of business operations, including advertising, portfolio management, trading, internal controls, compliance programs, mergers and acquisitions and other management issues. He also counsels other financial institutions—banks and insurance companies—on securities issues associated with the management and distribution of investment products.


Robert Sitkoff
Robert H. Sitkoff
Professor of Law
Harvard Law School

Robert Sitkoff is the John L. Gray Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he was the youngest professor with tenure to receive a chair in the history of the school. Sitkoff previously taught at New York University School of Law and at Northwestern University School of Law. He has won three distinguished teaching awards. Sitkoff serves as an advisory consultant and expert witness in litigation and regulatory matters involving wills, trusts, estates, and fiduciary administration. He has also led training workshops for trust officers and other professional fiduciaries.


Clark M. Blackman II
Founder, President, and CEO
Alpha Wealth Strategies

Clark M. Blackman II has been recognized by Worth magazine as one of the “Best Financial Advisors in America” from 1996 to 2004. He has contributed to four books on financial and investment planning and fiduciary issues, one of them entitled: The New Fiduciary Standard. Blackman has served as chairman of the Executive Committee of the AICPA® Personal Financial Planning Division and participates on that organization’s Fiduciary and Professional Standards Task Forces. He is also a founding member and charter steering committee member of The Committee for the Fiduciary Standard, and served on the Best Practices Board of the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard.


Knut Rostad
Founder, Institute for the Fiduciary Standard

Knut A. Rostad, MBA co-founded and chaired the Committee for the Fiduciary Standard and co-founded and is president of the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard, a nonprofit formed in 2011 to advance the fiduciary standard through research, education and advocacy. He served as the regulatory and compliance officer at Rembert Pendleton Jackson, a registered investment adviser in Falls Church, Virginia, for ten years until early in 2015.


Former Frankel Fiduciary Prize Honorees

Luis Aguilar
2021 Luis A. Aguilar
2020 Ron A. Rhoades
2019 John H. Langbein
Harold Evensky
2018 Harold Evensky
Barbara Roper
2017 Barbara Roper
Phyllis C. Borzi
2016 Phyllis C. Borzi
David Swensen
2015 David Swensen
2014 Gary Gensler
Bob Monks, Frankel Prize
2013 Bob Monks

About the Frankel Fiduciary Prize

The Institute for the Fiduciary Standard established the Frankel Fiduciary Prize in April 2013 to honor individuals who advance fiduciary principles. The Frankel Fiduciary Prize will be awarded annually to a person who has made significant contributions to the preservation and advancement of fiduciary principles in public life.

The prize is named after Professor Tamar Frankel of the Boston University School of Law. You can learn more about Professor Frankel’s research on fiduciary law here.

2021 Frankel Fiduciary Prize

2020 Frankel Fiduciary Prize

2019 Frankel Fiduciary Prize

2018 Frankel Fiduciary Prize

2017 Frankel Fiduciary Prize

2016 Frankel Fiduciary Prize

2015 Frankel Fiduciary Prize

2014 Frankel Fiduciary Prize

2013 Frankel Fiduciary Prize

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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