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Don Trone: You've seen the old-school testing with the wires out of the head, but today it's wireless and it looks like a swim cap and you don't even need the goop to keep it on.

Claiming DOL rule has no handle on truth, Don Trone crafts lie detector test to assess RIA brains

The Neuro-Fiduciary & Governance Psychometric Instrument involves an EEG, an interview and six colleagues willing to vouch for your true fiduciary bona fides

December 24, 2017 at 5:23 AM

Don Trone: 'Acting in the best interests of others' is a principle. It only takes seven words .... The DOL uses 1,000 pages of rules to kill the concept.

Don Trone's 7 reasons why the DOL rule is flawed to the point of 'folly'

Hurling jabs at opponents and proponents alike, the fiduciary maven says both sides failed to recognize and incorporate the role of RIAs

April 15, 2016 at 5:40 PM

Don Trone: Because ethotic leaders tend to have a broader view, they are able to keep a better sense of perspective in the face of adversity.

The 10 essential qualities an advisor must possess to become an 'ethotic' leader in these days of roiling markets

Why? Because it's time for the industry to accept that consumers will never care about suitability vs. fiduciary and recognize that they're hungry for leadership

August 26, 2015 at 2:59 PM

Don Trone: The individuals I am critical of are the members of fiduciary advocacy groups who have turned a blind eye to unethical, and in some cases, illegal behavior.

Where Barbara Roper and Ron Rhoades lose traction in their fiduciary arguments

Lay fiduciary decision-makers have difficulty in discerning conflicts of interest.

March 2, 2015 at 6:19 PM

Ron Rhoades: Don’s view reflects a misunderstanding of the breadth of the fiduciary principle.

Why I disagree with Don Trone's characterization of Obama's fiduciary stance as 'punitive'

The essential component of fiduciary duty -- loyalty -- is what separates the advisor from the salesperson, according to fellow fiduciary advocate Ron Rhoades

February 27, 2015 at 12:06 AM

Don Trone: Fiduciary is no longer a point of inspiration for moral, ethical and prudent decision-making.

Why Obama and the DOL are all wet when it comes to the proposed fiduciary rule

Stress the carrot and not the stick in formulating a rule that will get real results, says a fiduciary maven

February 26, 2015 at 5:54 PM

Before the lights went out: A consumer panel says what it knows about what it doesn't.

TD throws its first client-best-interest summit, a micro-event, by 'candlelight' in Palm Beach and ideas rise from the RIA deeps

As members of a consumer panel bitch creatively, fed up advisors dig deep for ideas that depend less on DC vicissitudes and more on RIA will and unity

June 17, 2013 at 4:33 AM

Ron Rhoades: I can assure you that I am doing fine.

Ron Rhoades: Staying on at NAPFA would have given ammunition to RIA industry foes

Shocked industry advocates are conflicted as to whether Rhoades should have stayed the course; in another industry shakeup, FPA's Marvin W. Tuttle announces he will step down

August 21, 2012 at 8:52 AM

Ron Rhoades: You're going to see a much more active NAPFA.

NAPFA's appointment of a new chairman could be a big deal for RIAs

Ron Rhoades spent the last year in obscurity but now he's "ready to take the gloves off"

May 23, 2012 at 3:03 AM

Blaine Aikin: Regardless of what happens to regulatory reform, we expect to do really well.

Private equity strikes again, this time quietly buying control of fi360 for $11.5 million

Bluff Point Associates principals liked the recurring revenues and bright growth prospects

April 10, 2012 at 5:41 AM

Brian Hamburger: The SEC is lining up the facts so that later the conclusion becomes obvious (it can’t regulate advisors with current resources). ... It’s genius, what they’re looking to do, but it’s incredibly transparent.

The RIABiz list of winners and losers in the wake of the SEC's fiduciary study

The race is on as laggards adapt to new vision of the future

January 28, 2011 at 1:17 PM

Charles Lowenhaupt:  What was really clear after 2008 was that diligence and process were the gold standard.

Two longtime fiduciary advocates make a pitch for family offices to sign on to standards

After Bernie Madoff and now Kenneth Starr, the family office business seems in need of some better guidelines.

June 2, 2010 at 3:50 AM

Lou Harvey: The bigger impact is on IRAs, not 401ks. There are a heck of a lot more IRAs out there and advisers involved in IRAs.

IRA assets could be ripped from the grasp of brokers if DOL has its way

With brokers disqualified, fee-only advisors may have 'phenomenal' opportunity to dominate $4.1 trillion IRA market

March 4, 2010 at 6:47 AM

Mindy Diamond: A home run for RIAs and recruiters

Page One Wall Street Journal article is a 'home run' for the RIA industry

Story's impact could exceed New York Times article about Smith Barney breakaway two years ago

January 5, 2010 at 7:26 PM

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