Category Archives: Vulnerable Client
 

Increasing Client Participation in Designating Trusted Emergency Contacts

June 14, 2021

logo of the Ontario Securities CommissionThe Ontario Securities Commission recently published research findings focused on improving investment advisory client participation in designating a trusted emergency contact (referred to in the report as a “trusted contact person” or “TCP”). Although designating a trusted emergency contact is an important tool for investment advisers to protect a senior or vulnerable client’s investments against financial exploitation or losses due to diminished capacity, many clients decline to do so. This new report aims to help investment advisers and broker dealers utilize behavioral science to encourage its senior and vulnerable clients to name a trusted emergency contact. Despite having an intended audience in Canada, the report highlights a number of useful insights and strategies that can be implemented by investment advisers across the United States. To read the full report, click here.

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Learn How Your Investment Adviser Can Improve Its Report of Elder Abuse to Adult Protective Services

January 20, 2020

Many state legislatures in the U.S. have recently passed legislation mandating that investment adviser firms and their supervised persons report instances of elder abuse by third parties to the applicable authority in the state (e.g., adult protective service, attorney general’s office).  Moreover, many securities regulators have passed specific rules requiring mandatory reporting of elder abuse and/or taken the position that reporting instances of elder abuse is essentially part of an investment adviser firm’s fiduciary duty to act in a client’s best interest.

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