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Blaine F. Aikin

Blaine Aikin is the founder and principal of Fiduciary Insights, an independent provider of fiduciary subject matter expertise for organizations that employ or provide services to investment advisors. More details here: Fi36t0 team

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SEC’s Aguilar urges fiduciary standard

In my last Fiduciary Corner column, I wrote about the significant benefits that would result if, as a result of regulatory reform, all who provide financial advice — including broker-dealer representatives — are held to the fiduciary standard of care established under current laws.

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How a ‘universal’ fiduciary standard would change how financial advisers do business

Some time ago, a reporter asked me a simple yet profound question: “If everyone providing investment advice were held to a fiduciary standard of care, how would things be different than they are today?”

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For fiduciaries, loyalty is everything

Woodrow Wilson may have been right when he said, "Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice."