TD Ameritrade Institutional's Skip Schweiss Receives 2016 Leadership Award from Bob Veres' Insider's Forum

TD Ameritrade Institutional’s1 managing director of advisor advocacy and industry affairs, Skip Schweiss, today received the 2016 Insider’s Forum Leadership Award in recognition of his years of steadfast advocacy for registered investment advisors (“RIAs”) and the fiduciary standard.

This is the fourth Leadership Award bestowed by Bob Veres’ Insider’s Forum, a conference that brings together the leading figures of the financial planning profession. Veres, also publisher of the Inside Information newsletter, said Schweiss stands apart for his success in gathering representatives with strong, often differing opinions on the fiduciary issue and delivering the views of RIAs to regulators and lawmakers.

“His passion for promoting professionalism and his ability to bring people with different viewpoints together have allowed him to visibly move the profession forward in the direction of putting clients’ interests first in a financial planning engagement,” Veres said.

Schweiss continued and then expanded on a tradition of steadfast RIA advocacy at TD Ameritrade Institutional, which since 2005 has stood at the side of RIAs to make their voices heard in Congress, among regulators and other influential parties.

In addition to circling the country to speak with RIAs and collect their views, Schweiss organizes TD Ameritrade Institutional’s Advocacy Leadership Summit, an annual event that gathers industry leaders, academics and policymakers to discuss regulation, standards of care and other important issues for RIAs. Several times a year, Schweiss also visits lawmakers in Washington to discuss the need for smarter investor protections in line with a reasonable level of regulatory burden on advisors.

Schweiss further shows his leadership by serving as an authoritative voice on the fiduciary standard and financial services regulation, through both the traditional news media and social media.

“Skip is truly a leader in our industry. He has tirelessly demonstrated his dedication to independent RIAs and he’s been a champion for advisors who want to do business the right way by always putting their client’s interests first,” said Tom Nally, president, TD Ameritrade Institutional.

Veres also cited Schweiss’ role as TD Ameritrade Institutional’s head of Retirement Plan Solutions. Schweiss’ team in 2014 launched the first open-architecture, turnkey program for workplace retirement plans, to help more RIA firms capture a bigger slice of the nearly $5 trillion 401(k) plan market as sweeping regulatory change tilts the playing field toward fiduciary advisors.

Schweiss this month was elected to the Financial Planning Association’s board of directors. He was named the 2015 Fiduciary of the Year by the Committee for the Fiduciary Standard, and in 2014 he was recognized by Investment Advisor magazine as one of its 25 most influential industry figures.

"I humbly accept this award on behalf of TD Ameritrade Institutional, which for more than a decade has stood beside RIAs and worked to make their collective voice heard in Washington on critical issues," said Schweiss. “While our industry has made great progress, RIAs still have much work to do helping policy makers and investors understand that it matters a great deal from whom you get your investment advice.”

The previous winners of the Insider’s Forum Leadership Award were Tim Kochis of Kochis Global, Harold Evensky of Evensky & Katz / Foldes Financial Wealth Management, and Mark Tibergien of Pershing.

About TD Ameritrade Institutional
TD Ameritrade Institutional is a leading provider of comprehensive brokerage and custody services to more than 5,000 fee-based, independent registered investment advisors and their clients. Our advanced technology platform, coupled with personal support from our dedicated service teams, allows investment advisors to run their practices more efficiently and effectively while optimizing time with clients. TD Ameritrade Institutional is a division of TD Ameritrade, Inc., a brokerage subsidiary of TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation.

About TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation
Millions of investors and independent registered investment advisors turn to TD Ameritrade’s (Nasdaq: AMTD) technology, people and education resources to help make investing and trading easier. Online or over the phone. In a branch or with an independent RIA. First-timer or sophisticated trader. Our clients want to take control, and we help them decide how - bringing Wall Street to Main Street for more than 40 years. An official sponsor of the 2016 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Teams, as well as an official sponsor of the National Football League for the 2016 season, TD Ameritrade has time and again been recognized as a leader in investment services. Visit TD Ameritrade's newsroom or amtd.com for more information.

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1 TD Ameritrade Institutional is a division of TD Ameritrade, Inc., a brokerage subsidiary of TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation.

Source: TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation

Contacts:

TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation
Joseph Giannone, 201-369-8705
Communications + Public Affairs
Joseph.Giannone@tdameritrade.com

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