Additional Resources
IPS AdvisorPro® has collected the following list of articles, links and information as a public resource. If you have an article to submit to this resource page, please send us an email. Articles written by and about IPSs, IPS AdvisorPro® founders, Norm Boone, MBA, CFP® and Linda Lubitz Boone, CFP®, on the topic of Investment Policy Statements:
- A Written Plan Can Help Your Portfolio. The Wall Street Journal, May 30, 2012
- Investment Policies Can Help Hold The Line, Thomas Coyle: Dow Jones Financial Adviser Blog, August 17, 2011
- An IPS Pro: Norman Boone’s expertise on investment policy statements powers his software product-and his advisory practice. Financial Planning Magazine, February, 2010.
- Creating an Investment Policy Statement: Guidelines and Templates. FPA Press, Published 2004.
- “Put It in Writing – Practice Management.” Bank Investment Consultant, November 2008.
- “The Investment Policy Statement: Providing the Bridge Between Compliance and a Satisfied Client.” Schwab Institutional Compliance Review, August 2008.
- “Getting Comfortable With Change.” Investment Advisor, April 2008.
- “How Using an Investment Policy Statement Can Help Take You to the Next Level.” published by AICPA
- “Investment Policy Statements Keep Clients Thinking Rationally.” Horsesmouth, June 1, 2007.
- “A Review of Difficult Investment Policy Issues.” Journal of Financial Planning, May 2003.
- “The Hows and Whys of Investment Policy Statements.” Journal of Financial Planning, November 1998.
- “Using the Investment Policy Statement as Part of the Investment Process.” Journal of Retirement Planning. November – December 1998.
- “Investment Policy Statements Protect Advisers When Markets Go Sour.” National Underwriter, August 1996.
- “Developing the Investment Policy Statement.” Journal of Financial Planning, April 1992.
- “Fiduciary Responsibilities in Retirement Plans.” Personal Financial Planning, May/June 1991.
Other important works on the topic of Procedural Prudence and Fiduciary Responsibility:
- Ingrid Case. On the Same Page, Investment Policy Statements: Useful or Useless in Today’s Market. AdvisorMax. January 1, 2009.
- Bob Veres. Step One to Fiduciary. Inside Information. February 2007.
- Katherine Vessenes, JD, CFP®, RFC®. “7 Rules for New (and Experienced) Advisors.” Compliance-Friendly Marketing: Staying out of Trouble, Staying in Business. November 2007.
- Joel Bruckenstein, CFP. A Software Solution to Investment Policy Statements. MorningstarAdvisor.com. May 11, 2006.
- Profit Sharing/401k Council of America. Investment Policy Statements – A White Paper. http://www.psca.org. July 18, 2001.Thomas J. Connelly, CFA, CFP.
- Thomas J. Connelly, CFA, CFP. “The Evolving Investment Policy Statement.” Journal of Financial Planning, June 1996.
- Donald B. Trone, William Albright and William Madden. The Management of Investment Decisions. Irwin Professional Publishing. 1995.
- Lynn Hopewell. “Common Mistakes of Fiduciaries Responsible for Investments, The Monitor Group.” The Journal of Investing. Winter 1994.
- Arthur M. Sherwood. “The New York Prudent Investor Act: Focus on Tax Considerations.” New York State Bar Journal. November 1994.
- Walter R. Good and Douglas A. Love. Managing Pension Assets: Pension Finance and Corporate Goals. McGraw Hill Publishing. 1990.
- Investment Policy Guidebook for Corporate Pension Plan Trustees. Special Committee of the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans IFEBP. 1990.
- Foundation for Fiduciary Studies. “Setting Standards for a Prudent Investment Process.”
- Russell A. Gauderies and Robert C. Macula, Jr. “Fiduciary Responsibility under ERISA: Where Does it Begin? Where Does it End?” ALA-ABA Course Materials Journal.
