Don’t confuse fee-based RIAs with fee-only RIAs ifyou want to talk fiduciary regulations with Harold Evensky andexpect to get away with it.

Evensky, Chair of Evensky, Katz and Foldes Financial, a fee-onlywealth management firm with about $1.5 billion in assets undermanagement, is credited with being one of the first to pioneer thefee-only advisory movement in the early 1990s, when his practicemade the jump from a commission-based model of compensation to afee-based, fiduciary model.

Now in his 70s, he continues to lead the firm he co-founded andserves as an adjunct professor at Texas Tech University, where heteaches a graduate course in wealth management.

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Nick Thornton

Nick Thornton is a financial writer covering retirement and health care issues for BenefitsPRO and ALM Media. He greatly enjoys learning from the vast minds in the legal, academic, advisory and money management communities when covering the retirement space. He's also written on international marketing trends, financial institution risk management, defense and energy issues, the restaurant industry in New York City, surfing, cigars, rum, travel, and fishing. When not writing, he's pushing into some land or water.