From our inception, we have been
a fiduciary financial services firm.
Not exact matches
«The optimal
financial services firm leverages the competitive spirit of Wall Street, bringing the cream to the top, and does that inside an independent
fiduciary service model, which is optimal to the individual investor.»
Second, DOL «then offers an exemption from this far - reaching prohibition — known as the best interest contract exemption (or «BIC» exemption)-- but conditions it on
financial services firms and insurance institutions agreeing to subject themselves to
fiduciary standards of conduct in contracts that they must enter into with their customers, as well as a range of other restrictions and requirements.»
In short, the complaint says, DOL «is instituting a deliberately unworkable
fiduciary definition, with full knowledge that
financial services firms and insurance institutions will have no choice but to seek an exemption from it.
CFA and Americans for
Financial Reform released a report on Wednesday, written by Hauptman and Barbara Roper, CFA's director of investor protection, which scrutinizes how brokerage
firms and insurance companies market their
services on their website and «contrasts the practices they use to attract customers with those they use when resisting regulation as
fiduciary advisors.»