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Michael Joyce: You could write several articles about the go-to-the-mat battles I've had with trust companies.

Michael Joyce buys a stake in National Advisors Trust after taking a pass 10 years ago

Deal nets access to cheap trust services, a capital investment, the possibility of a dividend and a close-knit group of RIAs

August 4, 2011 at 6:13 AM

Deb Wetherby: Form a girls’ group.  Attitude matters – find and hang out with women who inspired you.

Eavesdropping on the NAPFA's pre-conference Women's Initiative

A daylong 'conversation café' emphasized communication, leadership and personal presentation; some guys crashed the party

May 26, 2011 at 2:08 PM

Brent Burns: Advisors who take on a fiduciary role have a lot of branding work to do.

NAPFA conference hits hopeful note as members look to the future

Unfazed by venue change, advisors mixed, mingled, blogged and tweeted their way through the three-day meeting

May 25, 2011 at 1:50 PM

Existing sites that list advisors aren't comprehensive, says Mike Alfred. "The average consumer won’t be able to go on line and find the person who took them to lunch that day.”

BrightScope's huge advisor database is first search-engine friendly way to connect consumers, advisors

Advisors can pay to add information, but disciplinary actions will show up

April 28, 2011 at 2:42 PM

Karin Maloney Stifler: Talking about money really is our last taboo subject.

What one advisor's letter to her son reveals about Americans' attitudes toward money

The financial crisis may have opened the door to money-talk -- and raises questions about advisors' responsibilities

February 25, 2011 at 2:56 PM

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

Mary Schapiro:A fiduciary owes its customers and clients more than mere honesty and good faith alone.

How 10 top groups define 'fiduciary'

Obama administration, SEC, FINRA, FPA, fi360, U.S. Supreme Court and SIFMA raise fiduciary bar to different heights

January 21, 2011 at 4:24 AM

Paul Auslander: As an umbrella for members with many business models, the FPA is in a strong position in an environment in which the different models are merging. “The targeted groups are the ones at peril, not us.”

As state regulatory, tax battles loom, FPA is establishing statewide organizations to counter threat

New president-elect sees a big change among broker-dealers on fiduciary issue: 'Sometimes I walk out thinking I've been in a Kumbaya situation'

November 10, 2010 at 4:43 AM

Marv Tuttle: Some of our members haven't liked our positions.

The industry's largest association has plenty at stake at its annual conference this weekend

After a trying two years in which it lost a chunk of its membership and angered others with unpopular stands, FPA is reminding advisors of its benefits

October 6, 2010 at 4:28 AM

Summer's last gasp: Advocates for advisors and broker-dealers were putting in long days to prepare comments on the fiduciary standard to send to the SEC's Mary Schapiro and the other commissioners.

Old foes in the fiduciary debate join new battle to sway SEC's six-month study

Advocates were working down to the wire to submit comments by the end of yesterday

August 31, 2010 at 5:31 AM

Elizabeth MacBride on how a small group of advocates for advisors and the fiduciary standard influence the debate this year in Washington, D.C.

What went right: the story of the fiduciary standard this year

A long-odds fight by advocates and a well-timed Goldman Sachs stumble and -- voilà -- brokers may have to begin putting customers' interests first

June 28, 2010 at 7:29 AM

Ron Rhoades: Fiduciary organizations benefit from the media's growing attention to the fiduciary issue.

One-Man Think Tank: Being a fiduciary is suddenly in style, even as lawmakers dance around the issue

The conference committee puts off action for another day, but Ron Rhoades points out that the private sector is finding its own solutions

June 24, 2010 at 5:13 AM

Diahann Lassus: Model of regulation should help consumers

NAPFA faces test if 'fiduciary' status becomes norm

Amid brewing storm, there's an eerie calm at conference

August 27, 2009 at 3:48 AM

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