Remove Fee Only Remove Fiduciary Duty Remove Wealth Management
article thumbnail

How to Find a Fee-Only Financial Advisor

Darrow Wealth Management

If youre looking for a fee-only financial advisor or wealth manager, its probably because you know fee-only advisors don’t sell products. Here are some ways to find the best fee-only financial advisor to suit your needs. What do fee-only financial advisors cost?

article thumbnail

How to Find a Fiduciary Financial Advisor

Darrow Wealth Management

Looking to find fiduciary financial advisors and wealth managers? Only fiduciary advisors are legally bound to act in your best interest at all times. Here are five ways you can find a full-time fiduciary financial advisor. What is a fiduciary advisor?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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

Sara Grillo

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

article thumbnail

Should you die and go to hell before selling an annuity?

Sara Grillo

Fee only advisors can now purchase annuities for their clients without having to be licensed agents. Do advisors breach fiduciary duty when they fail to recommend annuities? Yet the investment and insurance communities seem to be on two different sides of the fence when it comes to a solution.

article thumbnail

How the SEC Has Strayed From Its Mission

Inside Information

This second petition includes some draft language that the SEC could adopt, which spells out that a broker should be required to either register its reps with the SEC or stop calling those reps advisors, financial planners, wealth managers etc. Does any of this sound familiar about today’s marketplace?).