Fiduciary
adjective
Related to trust, especially trust that involves handling money or property for another person.
As your fiduciary, I am legally obligated to act in your best interest when managing your finances.
Often appears as...
- fiduciary duty
- fiduciary relationship
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Formal
Technical
noun
A person or organization that holds or controls money or assets for the benefit of another.
The fiduciary is responsible for managing the assets in the best interest of the beneficiary.
Often appears as...
- act as a fiduciary
- fiduciary breach
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
adjective
Related to trust, especially trust that involves handling money or property for another person.
As your fiduciary, I am legally obligated to act in your best interest when managing your finances.
Often appears as...
- fiduciary duty
- fiduciary relationship
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
A person or organization that holds or controls money or assets for the benefit of another.
The fiduciary is responsible for managing the assets in the best interest of the beneficiary.
Often appears as...
- act as a fiduciary
- fiduciary breach
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Trust
Used in contexts where someone is entrusted with another's money or property, often legally bound.
The accountant acted in a fiduciary capacity for her clients.
Pro Tip 2/3Ethical Obligation
Highlights the ethical requirement to act for someone else’s benefit, not personal gain.
Financial advisors have a fiduciary responsibility to their investors.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious Commitment
Implies a serious, often legal, commitment to act in the best interest of others.
He took his fiduciary role seriously when managing the charity funds.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Trust
Used in contexts where someone is entrusted with another's money or property, often legally bound.
The accountant acted in a fiduciary capacity for her clients.
Pro Tip 2/3Ethical Obligation
Highlights the ethical requirement to act for someone else’s benefit, not personal gain.
Financial advisors have a fiduciary responsibility to their investors.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious Commitment
Implies a serious, often legal, commitment to act in the best interest of others.
He took his fiduciary role seriously when managing the charity funds.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Trust
Used in contexts where someone is entrusted with another's money or property, often legally bound.
The accountant acted in a fiduciary capacity for her clients.
Pro Tip 2/3Ethical Obligation
Highlights the ethical requirement to act for someone else’s benefit, not personal gain.
Financial advisors have a fiduciary responsibility to their investors.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious Commitment
Implies a serious, often legal, commitment to act in the best interest of others.
He took his fiduciary role seriously when managing the charity funds.
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Nick Szabo
American Scientist
Instead of the cashier and ticket-ripper of the movie theater, the block chain consists of thousands of computers that can process digital tickets, money, and many other fiduciary objects in digital form. Think of thousands of robots wearing green eye shades, all checking each other's accounting.
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James Chanos
American Businessman
And so it can be very much in the interest of bank A to sell-short bank B shares, or buy CDSes on bank B, because they have exposure to bank B. It's the responsible thing to do as a fiduciary, and yet if everyone does it at the same time, it's destabilizing because everyone is selling.
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Azim Premji
Indian Businessman
If one has been blessed or have been fortunate enough to have got much more than normal wealth, it is but natural that one expects a certain fiduciary responsibility in terms of how that wealth is applied, used and leveraged for purposes of society.
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Elaine Chao
American Politician
Left-wing shareholder activists seek to leverage the mass economic power of institutional investors such as pension funds, whose managers are supposed to focus strictly on their fiduciary responsibilities to retirees.
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Tom Perez
American Politician
There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.
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Alan Alda
American Actor
The whole question of fiduciary responsibility is a very old concept. You could make a movie about someone making that rule at any point in history, and within a few months, it will turn out to be timely.
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Michael Moore
American Activist
Our laws demand that a corporation have a fiduciary responsibility with shareholders to maximize profits. They are legally required to make as much money as possible, any way possible within 'the law.
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John C. Bogle
American Businessman
What we need is congressional action to establish a federal principle of fiduciary duty - encapsulated by the phrase 'no man can serve two masters.
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Evan Bayh
American Politician
Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.
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Dave McClure
American Businessman
My role has been limited to focus on fiduciary obligations to our investors as a general partner of our funds.
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Nick Szabo
American Scientist
Instead of the cashier and ticket-ripper of the movie theater, the block chain consists of thousands of computers that can process digital tickets, money, and many other fiduciary objects in digital form. Think of thousands of robots wearing green eye shades, all checking each other's accounting.
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James Chanos
American Businessman
And so it can be very much in the interest of bank A to sell-short bank B shares, or buy CDSes on bank B, because they have exposure to bank B. It's the responsible thing to do as a fiduciary, and yet if everyone does it at the same time, it's destabilizing because everyone is selling.
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Azim Premji
Indian Businessman
If one has been blessed or have been fortunate enough to have got much more than normal wealth, it is but natural that one expects a certain fiduciary responsibility in terms of how that wealth is applied, used and leveraged for purposes of society.
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Elaine Chao
American Politician
Left-wing shareholder activists seek to leverage the mass economic power of institutional investors such as pension funds, whose managers are supposed to focus strictly on their fiduciary responsibilities to retirees.
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Tom Perez
American Politician
There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.
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Alan Alda
American Actor
The whole question of fiduciary responsibility is a very old concept. You could make a movie about someone making that rule at any point in history, and within a few months, it will turn out to be timely.
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Michael Moore
American Activist
Our laws demand that a corporation have a fiduciary responsibility with shareholders to maximize profits. They are legally required to make as much money as possible, any way possible within 'the law.
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John C. Bogle
American Businessman
What we need is congressional action to establish a federal principle of fiduciary duty - encapsulated by the phrase 'no man can serve two masters.
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Evan Bayh
American Politician
Companies that are publicly held have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to try to maximize their profits within ethical reasons.
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Dave McClure
American Businessman
My role has been limited to focus on fiduciary obligations to our investors as a general partner of our funds.
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