Determining whether someone has violated standards of professional conduct is not always black and white. Read on and decide what you think of both analysts’ actions in this week’s case.
CFA Institute believes the debate over US House of Representatives Bill HR 5054, Small Company Disclosure Simplification Act of 2018, should not focus on the cost increase of an outsourced, or “bolt-on,” service for producing XBRL-formatted reports.
New platforms for getting communications out to clients and prospective clients can introduce potential challenges.
Members of CFA Institute must abide by our Standards of Professional Conduct. Read on to practice your ability to apply the standards in a real-life situation.
Those in the financial services industry should be especially dedicated to keeping their ethical decision-making skills sharp because of the trust that investors’ put in them. Read on to practice your ethical decision making.
Are you keeping up with your ethical exercise? Keep your ethical “muscles” in shape with these weekly ethics cases that involve a variety of situations and people.
Sometimes ethical situations can arise through in unexpected places, such as in conversations over lunch about recommendations for an investment advisor. Get your ethical exercise as you read and assess this week’s case.
CFA Institute members and candidates have to abide by the Code and Standards, but sometimes the right course of action to do so is not clear. Read on to practice your ethical decision-making skills.
Asset managers face many decisions when taking care of their clients’ portfolios, and sometimes choosing the best investments can present ethical dilemmas. Read this week’s case for an example.
The question of whether the blockchain will end up as nothing or everything continues to be asked with no definitive answer as of yet.
On 23 February, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) launched the second—and likely final—round of consultation before dual-class share (DCS) structures are expected to be introduced to the Hong Kong market later this year.
There are many reasons why someone would decide to leave an employer, but the question is how much is okay to share with others, especially clients, about the reasons for leaving?
This week’s case presents a very real-world situation that we read about in the news often — getting hacked and clients’ confidential information being stolen.
The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) has published a survey for investment adviser representatives (IARs) to collect opinions on the implementation of a continuing education program.
Although an appeals court ruling vacated the DOL's fiduciary duty rule, the debate is far from over.