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Harrison Fiduciary Group — Our Pledge

As anticipated, the SEC issued it’s report, Study on Investment Advisers and Broker-Dealers, and recommends a new Unified Fiduciary Standard for broker/dealers and investment advisors.  Uniformity can be applauded, as well as a higher standard applicable to broker/dealers ….but, let’s not kid ourselves, as I discussed in my prior Post, it is a diluted fiduciary standard allowing for the payment of commissions, the sale of proprietary products and other accommodations to Wall Street.

At Harrison Fiduciary Group we will always rise above the morals of the market place and we pledge as follows:

  1. We will not receive commission income;
  2. No conflicts will be tolerated;
  3. We will not promote proprietary products; and
  4. All actions that we take, and decisions which we make, will be solely in the interests of participants and beneficiaries.

Regulators and Congress may be compromised by political interests, but at HFG we are not subject to these pressures.  Instead, we are guided by our core corporate values which shall remain undiluted.  Our responsibility is to put the interests of plan participants ahead of our own.

Our flat fee schedule goes to the heart of our business model, and reflects our core fiduciary values.  For each assignment we will be paid a flat fee and not a basis point fee on the size of assets under management.  The “basis point” model has become endemic to the pension industrial complex.  Many service providers attempt to hitch their revenue streams to the ever growing pool of pension assets –investment managers, custodians, record-keepers and consultants.  We aim to break this link.

As a fiduciary we will be paid a fee in exchange for our fiduciary services.  This fee will reflect the fiduciary risk we assume, the complexity of an engagement and the amount of resources which will need to be devoted to the engagement.

Overseeing and managing the hard earned retirement assets of plan participants is a position of trust.  At Harrison Fiduciary Group we will earn and safeguard that trust zealously.

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