FAs Warned: Stay Out of Harm’s Way

By Grace Williams March 27, 2018 A good advisor’s primary objectives should include never knowingly putting a client’s investments into harm’s way. Yet it’s possible you are doing just that, and it’s happening without your awareness. This particular bit of...

Greed and Ego: Moves Markets

Summary Does fear motivate people to make a bad investment? The herd mentality? Greed?  It all is driven by ego. Bernie? Ego brought him investors ad nauseam. Ego brought him down. I bet you can think of other applications of the ego theory outside of investing. This...

FIDUCIARY: JUNE 9 – WHAT RULE?

The only way we can help you, Advisors AND Investors, make any sense of how to evaluate whether you are giving or getting the Ethical Treatment of SomebodyElse’s Money (yours or your client’s) is to point out the obvious ways ethics works and fails.  So, let’s start...

THE DEAD FIDUCIARY: KILL SHOT

4. The SEC is prohibited from making a rule until they: provide a report to the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate that analyzes and describes whether: (a) retail...