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Top Compliance Challenges Financial Advisors Face

BlueMind

Category: Compliance. The Significance Of Financial Compliance Financial compliance requires all actions, procedures, guidelines, and business culture to abide by the rules and regulations set by the regulatory authorities of the financial market. Related: Compliance and Automation – An Ideal Unison!

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When Are Advisors (Financially) Liable For Negligent Investment Advice? (And Who Pays For It)

Nerd's Eye View

For example, if an advisor recommends an investment that prioritizes the commission they would receive rather than any benefit the client would derive from it, they could incur fines and sanctions for violating their fiduciary duty as an advisor.

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Extracting Actionable Takeaways From The SEC’s Staff Bulletin Regarding An RIA’s Standard Of Care

Nerd's Eye View

In 2019, the SEC released a Commission Interpretation that separated the obligation of RIAs to act in their clients' best interests into separate duties of care (to provide investment advice in the best interest of the client) and loyalty (to eliminate or disclose all potential conflicts of interest with the client).

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Form ADV Part 1: Common Missteps And Best Practices For RIAs

Nerd's Eye View

And although the SEC provides instructions and some guidance for RIAs in drafting their Form ADVs, the instructions allow for a wide latitude of interpretation that can make it difficult for advisers to know exactly how their firm’s information should be presented.

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: SEC charges crypto exchange Bittrex and former CEO with flouting securities laws

MarketWatch

Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday charged crypto trading platform Bittrex Inc. investors as a broker, exchange and clearing agency without registering these activities with the Commission, in violation of the law. Visit MarketWatch.com for more information on this news. The SEC alleged that Bittrex earned at least $1.3

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Performance Advertising Guidelines For Investment Advisers Under the SEC’s New Marketing Rule

Nerd's Eye View

But for many years, advisers looking for guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding what kind of performance advertising was permissible had to rely on fairly general guidelines and SEC staff statements in the form of “no-action” letters.

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How to sniff out a lying grifter in a Form ADV

Sara Grillo

In this blog, Scott Salaske of Firstmetric and I discuss the proper way to read a Form ADV so that you can get the information you need to make an informed choice and avoid working with a financial advisor who is a lying, deceptive grifter. 1 High complexity on Form ADV Part 2, Item 4, Firm Information. Form ADV Part 2.