The fiduciary movement sparked by independent financial advisors over the last few decades, popularized more recently by regulators, consumer advocates, and financial experts of all sorts, will be ...

Much has been discussed about the Labor Department's recently finalized fiduciary rule, which will hold all financial advisors who provide retirement investment advice to a "fiduciary standard" -- or ...

Fiduciary financial advisors must choose investments that best align with their clients. These advisors generally take a more holistic and hands-on approach. Fiduciary financial advisors may charge ...

When Tom began his advising career as a broker and securities salesman in 1984, it didn’t take him long to see the potential for sliding scales of corruption and other such financial malfeasance. The ...

Oh, what a tangled web we’ve spun about fiduciary standards and financial advice in recent years. For those of you with long memories, you might recall the U.S. Department of Labor took eight years to ...

Fiduciary duty obligates a professional to act in the client’s best interests. This can apply to financial advisors, attorneys, real estate agents and other professionals. Fiduciary duty is legally ...

But the new rules leave open many questions as to what investors should actually expect in terms of account changes due to the new rules. First, a warning: just because your advisor must now act as a ...

Clients know to ask if their adviser is a fiduciary now, and it’s going to be awfully hard to win new business if you can’t tell them you’re going to act in their best interests. People should not be ...

The Department of Labor’s announcement Wednesday formally proposing to delay the fiduciary rule and related exemptions from April 10 to June 9 might mean that a more permanent delay will be next. But, ...

The Department of Labor’s final fiduciary rule could be released before the next presidential inauguration in January 2017. Processing Content Brad Campbell, counsel at Drinker Biddle in Washington, ...

The Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule is under fire again. Representative Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) has introduced a bill that would delay implementation of the rule for two years, with the ultimate goal ...

We analyzed everything from advisor credentials to fees to portfolio options at some of the larger and more well-known registered investment advisor firms to help you select a firm that could best con ...