Registered Investment Advisor - RIA
Categories: Banking, Regulations
An investment adviser registered with the SEC and the state where he or she works.
Why both? Well, people travel to different states all the time, but we all (Americans, ahem) live in the same Republic. So laws need to both be local and national...hence the need for this kind of "double" registration.
Depending on the types of investments you'll opine upon, you'll need different kinds of registrations. Will you also be managing money, trading stocks, or just advising clients to buy index funds and play golf? Lots of room for corruption here, so the regulations have to be pretty tight.
See: Hiding Written Complaints. You don't want these.
See: FINRA. And check out our myriad Series Exams, as you'll start with the SIE.
See: The Investment Company Act of 1940.
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Finance allah shmoop what is an investment advisor or registered
investment adviser All right well an investment advisor with no
other special nomenclature is the guy in your left at
the craps table screaming in your ear play the past
line play the past line he's just advising you as
to where you're going to quote invest unquote your slippery
five bucks But when an investment advisor actually gets serious
they have to register generally in the state or states
in which they're doing business and we mean geographic states
not like euphoria and depression Structurally they have to know
how the markets work all kinds of ethical and fiduciary
obligations that they'll hold for clients they have to understand
the mathematics of brokers and brokerages and the basics of
risk Most registered investment advisors have at least a serious
sixty five exam behind them not a whole lot more
like the series seven a bunch of others mainly because
investments never goes smoothly and someone always ends up getting
sued for bad advice So when firms hire registered investment
advisors they at least want the protection of being able
to point to an exam that the broker past that
Presented basic competence in their understanding of what they were
at least supposed to have done The key The limiter
here between the craps table guy in the registered investment
adviser is compensation Largely The craps table guy offers his
opinion for free The aria charges money or at least
wants to and as soon as cash changes hands and
formal manner while the rules and responsibilities and whole set
of fiduciary obligations get a whole lot less you know 00:01:46.149 --> [endTime] dicey