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Multiple Law Firms Investigating Focus Financial Take-Private Sale

Wealth Management

Several law firms are looking into whether Focus’ board members breached their fiduciary duties in agreeing to the sale at $53 per share.

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RIA Code Of Ethics: Important Nuances To Note In Relatively Straightforward Requirements

Nerd's Eye View

All investment advisers are fiduciaries that owe a duty of care and loyalty to their clients, and, in an ideal world, advisory firms and their staff would abide by these requirements without the need for a prescriptive code of ethics.

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Does being a fiduciary financial advisor REALLY matter – or is it “meh?”

Sara Grillo

The standard, however, is often used haphazardly, invoked as a sales tool by dual-registered advisors who want to virtue signal, only to be abandoned in a legal context by those same advisors who backpedal into being “just a salesperson.” The word “fiduciary” is not a marketing term, not just something you throw out there to virtue signal.

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How to Lower Your Financial Advisor Expenses

WiserAdvisor

For example, some advisors are paid via commissions on the sale of financial products like stocks, mutual funds, policies, etc. For example, if they sell a certain insurance product to you, they might be getting kickbacks from the insurance company for making the sale. Ensure that the financial advisor is bound by fiduciary duty.

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What does it mean to be a Fee-Only financial advisor?

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

Fee-Only financial advisors and firms receive no sales-related compensation or incentives. Additionally, CFPs must adhere to ethical and professional standards, including a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of their clients. They are compensated only by the fee the client pays.

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What type of financial advisor is right for you? Questions you should ask.

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

Fee-Only financial advisors and firms receive no sales-related compensation or incentives. Additionally, CFP s must adhere to ethical and professional standards, including a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of their clients. What does it mean to be a Fee-Only financial advisor ?

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Fiduciary Papers #14: It’s Time to End Commissions and Revenue Sharing

Ron A. Rhodes

It is possible that all commission-based compensation involving the sale of investment products, life insurance products, and annuities could be eliminated. And it would be right and just to do…