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Seeking Best Execution: Understanding The SEC’s Expectations For Advisors To Deliver Best Outcomes For Clients

Nerd's Eye View

Investment advisers are fiduciaries that owe a duty of care and loyalty to their clients. One component of this duty of care is an obligation to seek best execution of client securities transactions. The SEC, in its interpretive release, sets an expectation of "periodic and systematic evaluation" (i.e.,

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A Historic Missed Opportunity

The Big Picture

I’m on the road visiting our new office in Chicago and then heading to meet clients in San Francisco. 2016 : Regardless of the nation in question, the appropriate approach to financing this debt suggests a long-term bond — whether with a 30-year or even 50-year maturity. A lot of what ails the U.S.

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Summer Reading List Of “Best Books” For Financial Advisors – 2025 Edition

Nerd's Eye View

2025 has had a tumultuous start for most advisory firms, as tariffs-driven market volatility has increased client anxiety and the amount of required hand-holding, forcing advisory firms to manage their own expenses a bit more closely in the face of greater revenue uncertainty.

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RIA Edge Podcast: Schwab’s Jalina Kerr on How Resilient RIAs Can Turn Market Volatility Into Growth

Wealth Management

But similar to the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, fiduciary advisors can use this opportunity to assert their value and give clients confidence that their broader financial plans aren’t as negatively impacted as they may think, given the daily doom-and-gloom market headlines. Some RIAs can turn volatility into a growth engine.

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Mariner Hires M&A Lead Rob Sandrew to Oversee $40B Independent Channel

Wealth Management

Mariner is seeking to bolster its independent registered investment advisor channel by hiring Rob Sandrew to oversee the division, which includes more than 1,100 advisors and about $40 billion in client assets. Sandrew joined the RIA in 2016 and helped it grow from about $3 billion in client assets to more than $21 billion.

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Bluespring Merges Two Texas-Based Firms to Create $1.4B RIA

Wealth Management

LifeBridge was started in 2016 and later grew when Jim Morrison joined Rudelson to create a combined firm with Bluespring in 2021 with offices in Houston and Waco. RIA Bluespring Merges Two Texas-Based Firms to Create $1.4B SilverStar was started by Hudson in 1994 and became a Kestra affiliate in 2019, according to BrokerCheck.

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Tales from the Dark Side

The Big Picture

His counter has been that responsible brokers (like himself) run a transactional business for clients who want those services. He has high client retention and has generated respectable performance for those customers. Previously : Bill Miller: Closet Indexers Are Killing Active Investing (October 28, 2016). Fiduciary Rule.