Standard IV: Duties to Employers

Standard IV of the CFA Institute Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct, Duties to Employers, governs the relationship you live inside every working day: loyalty to the firm that employs you, the extra compensation you are and are not allowed to accept, and what you owe once you are the one supervising. In a two host format, one host explains the material while the other plays a fictional exam candidate, and together they reason out loud through the questions the exam is built around: what you can take with you when you leave a firm and what stays behind, when a side arrangement quietly crosses the line, and why "I did not know" is not a defense for a manager. Using fully fictional scenarios, they work Loyalty (IV-A), Additional Compensation Arrangements (IV-B), and Responsibilities of Supervisors (IV-C), so you learn to reason through a vignette instead of guessing at it.

Part of a ten-part Ethics season walking through the Standards of Professional Conduct one at a time.

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