Fee-only advisors have fewer inherent conflicts of interest, and they generally provide more comprehensive advice.

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The FAA has used designated company employees to oversee and validate some safety testing for more than two decades, a practice critics complain has inherent conflicts of interest.

NPR: NTSB Probes Safety Testing Of Boeing 787 Batteries

The advisors say they'd rather pay a new fee to the SEC to fund more inspections than come under an SRO, with its costs and inherent conflicts of interest.

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If the regulators truly believe that the main element of their structural reforms, the separation of equity research from investment banking, will remove Wall Street's inherent conflicts of interest, they are mistaken.

ECONOMIST: The Wall Street settlement

It concerns how today's giant universal banks manage the conflicts of interest inherent in their business models.

WSJ: U.K. Must Restore Confidence in London

The dealings of the NASD and NYSE have exposed the insurmountable conflicts of interest inherent in self- regulation.

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But the conflicts of interest inherent to investment banks became disgracefully sharper during the long 1990s bull market.

ECONOMIST: Why investors should always be suspicious of advisers

Whereas earlier he vowed to avoid the conflicts of interest inherent in taking financial stakes in companies he covers, now he is promising only to be transparent about them.

FORBES: Arrington Makes a Mockery of AOL-Huffpo Ethics Policy

Its model is "without the conflicts of interest that are inherent in the structure of most Wall Street firms, " Chief Executive David Pottruck was quoted saying late last year.

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