Contributing Editor &
Research Analyst,
Wealth Solutions Report
Financial Services Institute’s CEO Calls on Lawmakers to Preserve Advisors’ Choice to Work as Independent Contractors
In a press release shared with WSR following the recent State of the Union address from President Biden, Dale Brown, President & CEO of the Financial Services Institute (FSI), the leading advocacy organization for the financial services industry, stated that the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act as currently drafted threatens to undermine the choice of many financial advisors to work as independent contractors by mandating their reclassification as employees.
President Biden mentioned the PRO Act during his address.
Independent financial advisors, Brown says, “are small business owners [who] hire their own staff, pay their own taxes, develop their own books of business and rely on their business’ success.”
Brown called on the Biden Administration and Congress to recognize the unique nature of the independent financial services model and allow financial advisors the continued option of working as independent contractors.
A long-standing policy issue for the wealth management advisory space, FSI repeatedly countered legislative and policy proposals over the years that threatened to disrupt the independent wealth management channel through requiring financial advisors’ categorization as employees.
Michael Madden, Contributing Editor & Research Analyst, can be reached at mmadden@wealthsolutionsreport.com
