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Found 4 Skills
Identify, disclose, and mitigate conflicts of interest in advisory and brokerage relationships under Reg BI and fiduciary duty. Use when the user asks about compensation-based conflicts, proprietary product incentives, revenue sharing disclosure, principal trading consent, soft dollar arrangements, pay-to-play restrictions, gifts and entertainment limits, personal trading policies, or code of ethics requirements. Also trigger when users mention 'is this a conflict', 'recommending our own funds', 'higher payout on annuities', 'outside business activity conflicts', 'allocation fairness across accounts', 'political contribution to a pension board member', or ask how to disclose or eliminate a conflict.
Assess investment suitability obligations under FINRA Rules 2111 and 2090 across all three suitability prongs. Use when the user asks about reasonable-basis, customer-specific, or quantitative suitability, product-specific concerns for complex products, leveraged ETFs, variable annuities, or alternatives, household-level suitability, hold recommendations, or the institutional suitability exemption. Also trigger when users mention 'is this investment suitable', 'turnover ratio is too high', 'cost-to-equity ratio', 'churning metrics', 'suitability questionnaire design', 'complex product due diligence', 'customer refused to provide their risk tolerance', or ask whether a recommendation fits a customer's profile.
Guides pension and retirement fund work—DB vs DC structures, funding policy, liability measurement (PV of benefits, discount rates, mortality), ALM overview, plan design, public and multi-employer pensions, risk transfer (buyouts, annuities, de-risking), US regulatory overview (ERISA, PBGC, DOL, IRS qualified plans), institutional investor role, and fiduciary governance—not legal or tax advice. Use when the user mentions pension fund, retirement plan, defined benefit, defined contribution, 401(k), pension funding, PBGC, ERISA, pension liability, discount rate pension, pension buyout, de-risking pension, or ALM pension—not P&C insurance (property-casualty-insurance), actuarial modeling only (actuary), actuarial engagements (actuarial-consulting), personal IRA advice (financial-analyst), or legal interpretation (commercial-counsel).
Integrate insurance into a financial plan: decide what risks to retain vs transfer, size life insurance with needs-based and human-life-value analysis, and evaluate disability, long-term care, annuity, and liability coverage. Use when the user asks 'how much life insurance do I need', 'term vs whole life', about 'disability insurance' (own-occupation vs any-occupation, group vs individual), 'long-term care' insurance or self-insuring LTC, 'should I buy an annuity' (SPIA, DIA, variable, indexed), or an 'umbrella policy' for liability protection. Also trigger on 'DIME method', 'life insurance calculator', 'whole life vs invest the difference', 'elimination period', 'benefit period', 'hybrid LTC policy', '1035 exchange', 'beneficiary review', or questions about insurance riders, surrender charges, or whether an advisor can recommend insurance products.