These recommendations are
fiduciary advice even when the advisor does not otherwise have a relationship with the participant's 401 (k) plan or pick investments for the IRA.
Not exact matches
In fact, a recommendation for a participant to take a rollover distribution would be viewed as
fiduciary advice,
even if the advisor does not include any actual investment recommendations along with the rollover recommendation.
Rostad said that research from the GAO draws a picture showing that not only are «many, many investors -LSB-...] not being treated with a
fiduciary standard, it's worse: there's not
even a suitability standard being met» in providing
advice on retirement plans.
Furthermore, the DOL Rollover Opinion indicates that advisors providing such
fiduciary advice,
even if inadvertently, will also be treated as subject to the restrictions described in the Rollover Opinion.
I'll put things
even more bluntly: Any financial professional who is being paid for personalized investment
advice — regardless if it is on a fee or a commission basis, directly or indirectly — should adhere to the
fiduciary standard.
But, as you'll discover,
even a fee - only
fiduciary can give terrible
advice.
Any Calgarian that is
even considering Buying needs the
advice of a Professional Buyers Agent, who can give
advice that has no
fiduciary duty to SELLERS.