Fiduciary Duty Magazine Wealth Management 
Sara Grillo
AUGUST 14, 2023
Legal definition of the fiduciary standard To quote directly from a paper by Attorney Lorna Schnase , two bodies of law form the legal basis for the fiduciary standard: Common law: Under common law principles of agency, an investment adviser, as agent, owes fiduciary duties to its client, as principal.3
Wealth Management
JUNE 11, 2025
Address questions around marital trusts, powers of appointment and fiduciary duties while both spouses can provide input. Women should understand their role in the estate plan, whether they will serve as trustee, what rights they’ll have to income or principal and how decisions will be communicated to remainder beneficiaries.
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Sara Grillo
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Do advisors breach fiduciary duty when they fail to recommend annuities? Should those with only insurance licenses that allow them to sell annuities and/or life insurance be held to the same “fiduciary standard” as Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs) with the SEC or state regulators?
Wealth Management
JULY 11, 2025
By now, the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (2015) is so far behind the changes of the cryptocurrency industry as to be almost quaint. That, ironically, gives fiduciaries of trusts a clearer position with which to exercise their duties. President Donald Trump’s Executive Order No.
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