Fiduciary
StockSmart…
Advocates a fiduciary level of care in all dealing with investors:
- Act in the interests of clients with care, skill, prudence and diligence under the prevailing circumstances that a prudent expert acting in a like capacity and familiar with such matters would act.
Supports the Fiduciary Standards Board and its principles:
- Efficient compliance… Lowest cost, minimum liability
- Maximum value for clients… Highest satisfaction
- Registered Fiduciary (RF™) designation
Recognizes that fiduciary standards must enhance and not destroy current practices that serve investors well:
- Provide for comparable compensation
- Permit existing products/services to survive
- Define enforcement practices that identifies/sanctions only the unsavory
Complies with proposed federal regulations:
- SEC (Dodd/Frank)
- DoL (ERISA)
- IRS (IRAs)