Sentences with phrase «fiduciary issues for»

As counsel in the firm's Wealth Management Group, Jessica Lambert will continue to focus her practice on estate planning, trusts and estates administration, and related tax and fiduciary issues for individual clients.

She also advises on wills and trust drafting matters, voluntary disclosures under the UK's voluntary disclosure programmes and fiduciary issues for trustees.

Clark has been a leading voice on fiduciary issues for over 20 years.

Not exact matches

Diamonte serves on the board for the Committee on Investment of Employee Benefit Assets, representing more than 100 of the country's largest private - sector retirement funds on fiduciary and investment issues in Washington.

And for now, it appears that other fiduciaries are not engaging with Google on the voting rights issue either.

After careful review and consideration of the comments, the Department is issuing this final rule that will (1) extend the applicability date of the Fiduciary Rule, the BIC Exemption, and the Principal Transactions Exemption for 60 days until June 9, 2017, and (2) require that fiduciaries relying on these exemptions for covered transactions adhere only to the «best interest» standard and the other Impartial Conduct Standards of these PTEs during a transition period from June 9, 2017, through January 1, 2018.

They want only advisors with expertise in retirement issues to act as fiduciaries for 401 (k) plans because of risk management issues for the corporation, says Chetney.

The broker raises some interesting points about the issues surrounding a fiduciary standard for brokers — and illustrates a few as well.

«While the Financial Planning Coalition takes no view on a rule that has yet to be proposed, we believe that the DOL should be allowed to proceed with its fiduciary rulemaking process, including issuing a draft rule for public comment.»

He said the DOL worked closely with the industry in revising its draft fiduciary rule, and in fact, was «thanked» by them, he said, for listening to their requests for changes when the new rule was issued.

The Department of Labor has issued back - to - back guidance, in the form of frequently asked questions, for advisors as well as for investors and workers regarding its fiduciary rule, which takes effect on April 10.

As ThinkAdvisor's Melanie Waddell has reported, President Donald Trump is expected to issue an order directing the DOL to delay its fiduciary rule by six months or a year and has appointed an acting secretary of Labor while confirmation hearings for his chosen Labor secretary, Andrew Puzder, have been delayed.

But with the fiduciary standard in place, opponents say the liability issue will hurt the industry and make it tougher for small savers to get access to financial advice.

The PRI provide a framework for the growing view among investment professionals that environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues can affect investment performance and investors therefore have a fiduciary duty to give appropriate consideration to these issues.

Roper: I guess you could say CFA got involved in the fiduciary issue with the first study I wrote for the organization in 1986 on abuses in the financial planning industry, though I'm not sure what the word «fiduciary» meant when I started that research.

Defendants have never disputed that a reasonable fiduciary would be knowledgeable of the existence of the institutional shares for the mutual funds at issue.

This issue is not so much about federal regulations or inconsistencies between state laws and RESPA so much as is about HUD recognizing agency representation for the borrower as a compensable service, fair and equal application of RESPA to all costs (including borrower's broker), and a formal acknowledgment that some brokers are intermediaries that sell access to money while others are fiduciaries.

Side - Stepping Fiduciary Issues in Negotiating Exit Strategies for Preferred Stock Investments after Trado

One of the big issues is that, so for more sophisticated consumers who tend to be savers and have money yes they're learning what a fiduciary is but there's a whole segment of the population that is less sophisticated and unfortunately they're the ones that are most at risk and essential preyed upon by less ethical folks.

-- Hanco ATM Systems v. Cashbox ATM Systems [2007] EWHC 1599 (Ch): Led by Andrew Hochhauser Q.C. in relation to summary judgment application against senior employee for breach of fiduciary duty and dishonest assistance and involving issues as to the doctrine of «preparatory steps».

This is the purpose: A blog established by a practicing & teaching lawyer in Pennsylvania for the benefit of law students, consumers, & professionals interested in legal developments affecting Elder Law, long - term care, End - of - Life issues, estate & personal planning, fiduciary administrations (by agents under powers of attorney, custodians, guardians, & trustees), elder conflict dispute resolution, or Orphans» Court litigation in this Commonwealth, with reference to trends nationally.»

Areas of expert consultation, formal opinions, and testimony include reasonableness of fiduciary and attorney fees, standards for fiduciary conduct, spousal elective share issues, and characterization of trust beneficial interests in dissolution of marriage cases.

In its decision, the Federal Court of Appeal considered four issues: whether the Colony of British Columbia had breached its pre-emption legislation; whether the Colony had breached a fiduciary duty by allowing the village lands to be settled; Canada's liability for the Colony's breaches under the Specific Claim's Tribunal Act; and whether Canada's post-Confederation allotments of Band reserves remedied any potential breaches and fulfilled any possible fiduciary duties owed.

May a corporate lawyer and his law firm be sued in Delaware as to claims arising out of their actions in providing advice and services to a Delaware public corporation, its directors, and its managers regarding matters of Delaware corporate law when the lawyer and law firm: i) prepared and delivered to Delaware for filing a certificate amendment under challenge in the lawsuit; ii) advertise themselves as being able to provide coast - to - coast legal services and as experts in matters of corporate governance; iii) provided legal advice on a range of Delaware law matters at issue in the lawsuit; iv) undertook to direct the defense of the lawsuit; and v) face well - pled allegations of having aided and abetted the top managers of the corporation in breaching their fiduciary duties by entrenching and enriching themselves at the expense of the corporation and its public stockholders?

DEG - Deutsche Investitions («DEG») v Koshy and Gwembe Valley Development Co v Koshy and related actions Acted for a state - owned German bank in a long running dispute arising out of an investment in Zambia, involving originally insolvency issues and claims in fraud and for breach of director's fiduciary duties.

Acting for a defendant to a claim for breach of fiduciary duty and receipt of secret profits brought by a large multinational company in which corresponding proceedings were issued in Latvia, Jersey and the BVI, including representing him in committal proceedings for alleged breach of a freezing order, including in cross-appeals to the Court of Appeal.

In addition, she represents investment managers, hedge funds and private equity funds, and their principals in connection with fund structuring for ERISA and operational compliance with ERISA, providing counsel on fiduciary responsibility, prohibited transaction, VCOC, REOC, and other plan assets issues.

Disagreements between partners and shareholders, allegations of business fraud, a breach of contract or fiduciary duty, theft of intellectual property — these are issues that can send co-owners and competitors to the courtroom for complex commercial litigation.

With diverse clients ranging from E&P companies and oilfield service providers to product manufacturers and homebuilders, Gabe knows how to find the right solution for disputes involving a broad range of issues, including breach of contract, fraud, fiduciary duty, construction defects, liens, premises liability and indemnity.

As Howard notes, the drop in file sharing cases could be attributable to legal issues at Malibu Media, previously the largest filer of such file sharing cases which is now suing its former legal counsel for professional negligence and breach of fiduciary duty.

Clients turn to us for representation in commercial and bankruptcy related litigation including fraudulent transfer, preference, breach of fiduciary duty, deepening insolvency and corporate governance issues.

[1] The issue here is whether any kind of discharge, rather than a conviction, is proper for a string of deliberate commercial frauds by someone in a more or less fiduciary position.

As for the causes of action other than breach of fiduciary duty (battery, negligence and breaches of common law and international norms), the appellants argue that it is implicit in the motion judge's reasons that he decided the limitations issues in their favour.

For example, the Fiduciary Rule is a key issue that has a large impact on the sales of investments and if the agent isn't properly trained and involved in the changes of regulations, that agent stands to possibly, and unintentionally, harm a client.

Did the lawyer also act for the shareholders or only the company on the issue of breach of conflict and fiduciary duty?

Although cases involving property management were once again the most frequent area of liability, legal issues such as breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and property disclosure were the major areas of liability for residential practitioners.

The top three issues that cause the most disputes for US residential real estate agents are dual agency, disclosure, and breach of fiduciary duty.