TD Ameritrade Institutional's Skip Schweiss Receives 2016 Leadership Award from Bob Veres' Insider's Forum
September 20 2016 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Schweiss Recognized for Championing the
Fiduciary Standard, Advocating for RIAs and Rallying Thought
Leaders on Key Industry Issues
TD Ameritrade Institutional’s1 managing director of advisor
advocacy and industry affairs, Skip Schweiss, today received the
2016 Insider’s Forum Leadership Award in recognition of his years
of steadfast advocacy for registered investment advisors (“RIAs”)
and the fiduciary standard.
This is the fourth Leadership Award bestowed by Bob Veres’
Insider’s Forum, a conference that brings together the leading
figures of the financial planning profession. Veres, also publisher
of the Inside Information newsletter, said Schweiss stands apart
for his success in gathering representatives with strong, often
differing opinions on the fiduciary issue and delivering the views
of RIAs to regulators and lawmakers.
“His passion for promoting professionalism and his ability to
bring people with different viewpoints together have allowed him to
visibly move the profession forward in the direction of putting
clients’ interests first in a financial planning engagement,” Veres
said.
Schweiss continued and then expanded on a tradition of steadfast
RIA advocacy at TD Ameritrade Institutional, which since 2005 has
stood at the side of RIAs to make their voices heard in Congress,
among regulators and other influential parties.
In addition to circling the country to speak with RIAs and
collect their views, Schweiss organizes TD Ameritrade
Institutional’s Advocacy Leadership Summit, an annual event that
gathers industry leaders, academics and policymakers to discuss
regulation, standards of care and other important issues for RIAs.
Several times a year, Schweiss also visits lawmakers in Washington
to discuss the need for smarter investor protections in line with a
reasonable level of regulatory burden on advisors.
Schweiss further shows his leadership by serving as an
authoritative voice on the fiduciary standard and financial
services regulation, through both the traditional news media and
social media.
“Skip is truly a leader in our industry. He has tirelessly
demonstrated his dedication to independent RIAs and he’s been a
champion for advisors who want to do business the right way by
always putting their client’s interests first,” said Tom Nally,
president, TD Ameritrade Institutional.
Veres also cited Schweiss’ role as TD Ameritrade Institutional’s
head of Retirement Plan Solutions. Schweiss’ team in 2014 launched
the first open-architecture, turnkey program for workplace
retirement plans, to help more RIA firms capture a bigger slice of
the nearly $5 trillion 401(k) plan market as sweeping regulatory
change tilts the playing field toward fiduciary advisors.
Schweiss this month was elected to the Financial Planning
Association’s board of directors. He was named the 2015 Fiduciary
of the Year by the Committee for the Fiduciary Standard, and in
2014 he was recognized by Investment Advisor magazine as one of its
25 most influential industry figures.
"I humbly accept this award on behalf of TD Ameritrade
Institutional, which for more than a decade has stood beside RIAs
and worked to make their collective voice heard in Washington on
critical issues," said Schweiss. “While our industry has made great
progress, RIAs still have much work to do helping policy makers and
investors understand that it matters a great deal from whom you get
your investment advice.”
The previous winners of the Insider’s Forum Leadership Award
were Tim Kochis of Kochis Global, Harold Evensky of Evensky &
Katz / Foldes Financial Wealth Management, and Mark Tibergien of
Pershing.
About TD Ameritrade InstitutionalTD Ameritrade
Institutional is a leading provider of comprehensive brokerage and
custody services to more than 5,000 fee-based, independent
registered investment advisors and their clients. Our advanced
technology platform, coupled with personal support from our
dedicated service teams, allows investment advisors to run their
practices more efficiently and effectively while optimizing time
with clients. TD Ameritrade Institutional is a division of TD
Ameritrade, Inc., a brokerage subsidiary of TD Ameritrade Holding
Corporation.
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1 TD Ameritrade Institutional is a division of TD Ameritrade,
Inc., a brokerage subsidiary of TD Ameritrade Holding
Corporation.
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