Exploring Advice: What You Need to Know About Good Financial Advice, a Quality Financial Plan and the Role of a Fiduciary

The financial industry is undergoing a revolutionary shift driven by five key factors: the Department of Labor’s new regulations, asset management commoditization, fee compression, an increasingly competitive environment and a more informed consumer. Financial advisors are grappling with how to serve their clients’ best interests, profitably grow their businesses and navigate the evolving landscape.

Author Kevin Knull, CFP® helps define a path to success by exploring three questions:What is good financial advice? What constitutes a quality financial plan? What does it mean to be a fiduciary?

Based on research, qualitative insight from hundreds of conversations with industry advisors, regulators, attorneys, academics and consultants, and data from over 1 million plans, Knull outlines the elements of a quality financial plan, how a quality financial plan is an effective and prudent way to comply with the DOL regulations and how it can help financial advisors differentiate their firms in a challenging environment.

In an unprecedented forum, 39 key thought leaders – including CEOs and executives from wirehouses, regional, independent and retail broker-dealers, global and regional banks, investment advisory firms, consultants, a leading ERISA attorney and even a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissioner – explore and share unedited insight and best practices for good financial advice, a quality financial plan and the role of a fiduciary.

Readers will be enlightened and challenged as they too find themselves Exploring Advice.

Kevin Knull, CFP® is the President of PIEtech℠– the creator of MoneyGuidePro®, the industry’s leading financial planning software. As a highly sought after thought leader in the financial services industry, he works with firms of all types to help them better prepare clients for retirement through financial planning. He has held key leadership roles in multiple financial services companies. Knull is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ practitioner, a veteran and a graduate of the United States Coast Guard Academy.