Why no one should care how you're paid

Tony Vidler | Strictly Business | 08 May 2012

Get it right out front - nobody else should care how an adviser gets paid, other than the customer. This is not another piece on which type of remuneration is best. It is about the most significant regulatory debate happening in the developed world today - the fiduciary standard, and how that is applied.

This debate often falls into passionate nonsense about whether fee-based only advisers are better for customers than other sorts of advisers. As this battle rages in a...