Trone: CFP Board Must Increase Oversight

3ethos CEO Don Trone published an article for Financial Planning magazine regarding the need for increased governance at CFP Board.

"The need for such an action is clear: For more than a decade, the board’s staff and directors have faced accusations from myself and others in the industry regarding conflicts of interest, self-dealing and other improper behavior. As a CFP, there’s an additional reason why you need to be concerned: Evidence of self dealing puts the board at risk of losing its IRS 501(c)(3) status. If this were to happen, the designation would be devalued and pilloried as another example of the industry’s inability to build trust."

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Trone: The Future Fiduciary Is Not Fiduciary

3ethos CEO Don Trone published an article for iris.xyz on why the future fiduciary will not call himself a fiduciary.

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For more than three decades, elite financial services professionals have used fiduciary best practices to define their margin of excellence; even when the professional was not subject to a fiduciary standard.

Unfortunately, this same margin of excellence has become the first casualty of the ongoing fiduciary proliferation wars. In an effort to make everyone a fiduciary, regulators are gutting the essence of fiduciary and stuffing the cavity with complex rules and disclosures.

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