Are you a financial advisor who puts the interests of your clients ahead of any vendors or products? If so, congratulations.

Do you show your clients historical performance records to help them make investment decisions and select products–such as mutual funds, separate accounts or hedge funds? If so, what are your personal standards for acceptable performance records?

These questions are important because performance records keep getting more unreliable all the time, and this trend potentially threatens you and your clients. This article offers five guidelines that you may want to adopt for acceptable performance records, those that are fit to be shown to your clients.

Complete your profile to continue reading and get FREE access to BenefitsPRO, part of your ALM digital membership.

Your access to unlimited BenefitsPRO content isn’t changing.
Once you are an ALM digital member, you’ll receive:

  • Breaking benefits news and analysis, on-site and via our newsletters and custom alerts
  • Educational webcasts, white papers, and ebooks from industry thought leaders
  • Critical converage of the property casualty insurance and financial advisory markets on our other ALM sites, PropertyCasualty360 and ThinkAdvisor
NOT FOR REPRINT

© 2024 ALM Global, LLC, All Rights Reserved. Request academic re-use from www.copyright.com. All other uses, submit a request to [email protected]. For more information visit Asset & Logo Licensing.