Fiduciary Links: New fiduciary champion on Senate Banking Committee?
Posted by Bennett Aikin on February 20, 2013
>>>Last Thursday, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing on the progress of Wall Street Reform. The hearing featured leaders from seven regulatory agencies and made headlines as Elizabeth Warren’s first chance to grill regulators as a senator. The clearest fiduciary angle, though, comes from the testimony of SEC Chairman Elisse Walter. The InvestmentNews story of the hearing recaps Senator Jon Tester (D-Mont.) pressing Ms. Walter on fiduciary rulemaking. The article rightly points out that with nearly 100 mandatory Dodd-Frank rules at hand, progress is slow. Ms. Walter, for her part, expressed her support for fiduciary rulemaking, but also used that ominous word, “harmonize.” Complete testimony and video of the hearing is available on the Senate Banking Committee’s website.
>>>We’ve been following the fine blogging work of Roger Wohlner for a while now. Roger is a long-time friend of fi360 and we regularly feature his work in the “Articles your clients should be reading” section at the bottom of these blog posts, so it is nice to see his work recognized. On Friday, his most recent post for the U.S. News and World Report Smarter Investor Blog, Your 401(k): Good or Lousy?, was picked up for the front page of Yahoo! We hope the result is that many more investors are exposed to Roger’s work, because that can only be a good thing.
You can follow Roger’s writing at the Smarter Investor Blog (where a number of other friends of fi360 are blogging as well) and on his own blog, The Chicago Financial Planner.
Now on to the best of links of the week:
News and columns from the leading trade, consumer, and mainstream media:
- Some advisors suggest life insurance policy as college savings vehicle, but is it really in the client’s best interest? [InvestmentNews]
- Senator pushes SEC’s Walter on fiduciary rule [InvestmentNews]
- Advisers on SOTU: Not enough meat and potatoes [InvestmentNews]
- Referrals: It’s not them, it’s you [InvestmentNews]
- Expert Q&A: Stephen Wershing (what advisers need to know about gaining client referrals)[InvestmentNews]
- Nonprofits under pressure to generate revenue, improve programming [AdvisorOne]
- More employers to add Roth 401(k)s [AdvisorOne]
- Young investors need more financial education [AdvisorOne]
- Duration is not simply a measure of time, FINRA says; it also signals price fluctuation[AdvisorOne]
- SEC’s Walter: Fiduciary rule under ‘serious consideration’ [AdvisorOne]
- In state of the union, Obama calls for ‘smarter government’ [AdvisorOne]
- Advisors growing (But don’t know why) [Financial Planning]
From the blogs
- Mary Beth Franklin: Virtual Social Security accounts can be a real pain [InvestmentNews]
- The trigger for the next market pullback [The Takeaway, InvestmentNews]
- Improve your linkedin profile in 6 simple steps [WealthofIdeas, Financial Planning]
- How RIAs can rule the 401(k) realm by becoming advocates for plan sponsors [RIABIZ]
- Trending topics [Fiduciary News]
From the organizations/associations/government/academia:
- Linda Leitz voted chair-elect (for more information see article below) [NAPFA] For more information, read this Financial Planning article here.
- Director of International Affairs Ethiopis Tafara to leave SEC [SEC]
- Finra issues new investor alert regarding duration risk [FINRA]
- Business Financial Group, LLC is certified for fiduciary excellence [CEFEX]
Articles your clients are reading (or should be):
- The long and short of it: long/short funds gain traction [USNews]
- What you need to know about long-term care [USNews]
- What's your social security break-even age? [USNews]
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