More On Legal & Compliance
from The Advisor's Professional Library- Privacy Policies and Rules Whether an RIA is SEC or state-registered, the firm must have policies and procedures in effect to protect clients’ privacy. Policies and procedures should explicitly require an RIA to send out its privacy notice each year.
- The Custody Rule and its Ramifications When an RIA takes custody of a client’s funds or securities, risk to that individual increases dramatically. Rule 206(4)-2 under the Investment Advisers Act (better known as the Custody Rule), was passed to protect clients from unscrupulous investors.
In a blog posting for AdvisorOne, Knut Rostad of Rembert Pendleton Jackson and The Institute for the Fiduciary Standard questioned whether Elliot Weissbluth of HighTower Advisors misspoke when he claimed his firm had “zero conflicts of interest.”
In the interests of allowing you to judge for yourself, we present below a video from the Market Counsel Member Summit in September in Las Vegas that shows Rostad asking his question and Weissbluth answering it.
