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Is Your Advisor a Broker or Fiduciary?

August 10, 2023 - by Robin Sherwood

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Over the past 5 years, much attention has been focused on regulations by the Department of Labor (DOL) that require financial professionals to put a client’s interests first when providing advice on retirement accounts. Hold on a minute– don’t all financial advisors always do this? And why should it apply only to retirement accounts? If you are confused by this discussion, you are not alone.

Two Types of Advice

The DOL’s action to implement a fiduciary standard has shined a bright light on the differences between brokers who operate under a so-called “suitability standard” and registered investment advisors who follow fiduciary practices. Basically, the financial advisory industry is divided into two camps:

– Advisors who buy and sell products (funds, stocks, trusts, insurance…) that meet your goals and objectives and may be paid commissions on those transactions, OR

– Advisors who give advice in your best interest, based on established principles and your goals.

Some firms only sell products. Some offer only advice. Others do both – which creates a lot of confusion.

Is All Advice of Equal Value?

Unfortunately, no. And separating advice that’s in your best interest from advice that is not is as hard as separating real facts from fake facts.

To identify an advisor whose interests are aligned with your own, start by looking at their services, processes and fee structure.

HTG is a Fiduciary

When HTG Investment Advisors was founded thirty years ago, we wanted to be good stewards of wealth. While no clear standard of care existed at the time, we adopted a fiduciary state of mind. In order to ensure that we serve your best interest, we:

• Learn about you and your goals.
• Minimize and disclose conflicts of interest.
• Provide transparency regarding fees, portfolio design and reporting.
• Manage discretionary portfolios based on your needs/goals.
• Use independent, unaffiliated custodians.
• Accept revenues solely from you, not commissions related to the buying and selling of products. We are a fee-only advisory firm.

Our goal is to provide experienced advice and a high level of service, tailored to your circumstances.

While we didn’t need regulation to tell us the right thing to do, we certainly support any effort which can help and protect the individual investor.

With or without the regulation,
HTG will always operate as a fiduciary.
It’s woven into our original fabric.

Learn more about HTG Investment Advisors, read Our Story.

The information provided is for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice and it should not be relied on as such. It should not be considered a solicitation to buy or an offer to sell a security. It does not take into account any investor’s particular investment objectives, strategies, tax status or investment horizon. You should consult your attorney or tax advisor.

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