The Fiduciary Standard is Dying at the SEC -- Fee-only Planners Can Save it

Roundtable Discussion

The state of fiduciary is precarious in 2025 and fee-only planners can and must lead its resurgence. Two key topics include 1) the clear steps the SEC has taken over 20 years to minimize and diminish fiduciary principles and practice and, 2) what fee-only advisers and planners can do, in concrete and actionable terms, to save it.

Learning Objectives: 

1. Why and how the fiduciary standard is dying at the SEC.
2. That the ONLY strategy to preserve fiduciary advice and planning is based on practitioners and planning leaders in acting to do so.
3. Concrete actions that can be taken by any fee-only fiduciary planners.