This document discusses ethics issues related to providing financial advice and products to senior clients. It summarizes the key topics and findings of the 2006 SEC Seniors Summit, which examined how to better protect older Americans from investment fraud. The summit focused on problematic products, conduct, and marketing practices targeting seniors. It also addressed the importance of understanding age-related changes in clients and considering emotional, cognitive, and communication impairments. The document outlines various ethical challenges that can arise, such as working with clients who have dementia or are being financially abused.
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1. Ethics and Longevity
Generation Bold
Adriane G. Berg
6 Cedar Ridge Rd.
Lebanon, NJ 08833
www.generationbold.com
(908)236-8148
3. Ethos: Greek for Character
Ethics: How we live (do) based on morals
of right and wrong
Morals: How we define right and wrong
(think)
Values: How we believe about right and
wrong (being)
Which Counts Most?
5. The July 18, 2006 Senior Summit
The New York Stock Exchange
National Association of Securities Dealers
6. The July 18, 2006 Senior Summit
Recognition of Longevity
A Paternalistic View
A Call for Best Practices
A Fair Warning
7. slick schemes and
broken dreams
SEC to Conduct First-Ever Seniors Summit July 17 to Protect
Older Americans From Investment Fraud
New NASD Investor Education Foundation Fraud Study to be
Released
Washington, D.C., July 10, 2006 - Securities and
Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox
today announced the date and agenda for the SEC's
first-ever Seniors Summit to examine how regulators
and others can better coordinate efforts to protect
older Americans from investment fraud and abusive
sales practices.
8. Survey Says.
44% of all State Securities complaints are from Seniors
31% of all enforcement actions are for Senior complaints
Seniors are 15% of the population but 30% of the fraud victims
In North Carolina they are 50%
And in Florida, its 75%
11. Product Targets
The Annuity and Ethics
Variable Annuities
Equity Indexed Annuities
Stretch out IRAs ?
But we believe these products are unsuitable for may retirees
and are being aggressively pitched to seniors through investment
seminars nationwide Patricia Struck, NASSA
12. Conduct Targets
The Names You Know
Churninginappropriate buying and selling
Twistingmisrepresentation resulting in
replacements
Breach of Fiduciary Responsibility
Lack of Communication
Lack of Due Diligence
21. Who is Your Client?
One of your long time clients comes to you
for advice for his parent
He and his sibling are constantly arguing,
agreeing about nothing
His mother spends the meeting crying
His father is silent, but when he speaks is
not understandable
22. Confidentiality
Your old time client wants to do some end
of life planning
His wife, also your client, is left out of the
loop
She may be financially harmed by what
your client is planning
27. The Bag Lady Syndrome
Your client, with plenty of resources
refuses to use any of the resources for her
own care
She has no family, no friends
Her physical condition is worsening
Yet, she is lucid and clear
28. A Change in Your Client
Your clients mental and physical health
take a sudden downward turn
Your plans, while once appropriate, are
suddenly in need of amendment
Communications are breaking down
29. Geriatric Care Managers
Data Intake
Income Streams
Risk Tolerance
The Over 80 Budget
Presentation without exacerbating fear!
30. Showing Compassion for the
Clients Situation
Is Compassion Ever Unethical?
How Close is Too Close?
33. Grow Old With Me
Grow old with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in his hand
Who saith: A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Rabbi Ben Ezra Robert Browning