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

Sara Grillo

Why is the fiduciary standard important in financial advice? The fiduciary standard is important because it defined parameters for behaviors impacting the way that financial advisors treat their clients. Someone who has a conflict of interest can not operate as a fiduciary. Federal statutory law: Section 206.

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Sustainable Investing: Considerations for Trustees

Brown Advisory

Put simply, trustees serve as fiduciaries with investment authority over assets that are intended to benefit another person or persons; trustees should use every device at their disposal in an effort to maximize the investment returns of the trust they oversee.

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Sustainable Investing: Considerations for Trustees

Brown Advisory

Put simply, trustees serve as fiduciaries with investment authority over assets that are intended to benefit another person or persons; trustees should use every device at their disposal in an effort to maximize the investment returns of the trust they oversee. ESG AND FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY.

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The Other 95%

Brown Advisory

The Other 95% achen Mon, 04/16/2018 - 13:23 The traditional goal for a nonprofit’s investment portfolio was to earn a 5% return or so that could be used to fund the nonprofit’s programs. When our clients want to include mission-driven investments in a portfolio, it adds another dimension of goals and priorities to the discovery exercise.

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The Other 95%

Brown Advisory

Mon, 04/16/2018 - 13:23. In our work with all of our endowment and foundation clients, we follow a disciplined process to ensure that we: Discover and fully understand the nonprofit’s long-term objectives. Our conversations with mission-focused clients often begin with a fundamental conversation about values and priorities.

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How the SEC Has Strayed From Its Mission

Inside Information

If the petitions get traction, it could bring about huge shifts in the regulatory playing field for fiduciary advisors and Wall Street—and benefit financial consumers perhaps most of all. giving advice on managing a client portfolio). Once again, dually-registered individuals receive consideration.

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Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

The Big Picture

I know you don’t disclose your clients, but the Wall Street Journal certainly mentioned those. ” I just had this with a client who runs a very large, not multi-manager, but multi-strategy fund. And the phone rings an hour in and it’s my client. RITHOLTZ: Really? It was year one or so of IDW.