More On Legal & Compliance
from The Advisor's Professional Library- 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.
- Registration Requirements for Investment Advisor Representatives (IARs) When individuals launch an advisory firm, they must avoid marketing themselves or the firm as investment advisors before they are properly approved and registered. Otherwise, they are subject to severe penalties.
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.
