Professional Ethics: How Investment Professionals Are Supposed to Behave

What it means to put a client first, how conflicts of interest distort advice, and why trading on secret information is illegal. This path teaches the professional-conduct frameworks that govern analysts and advisers -- fiduciary duty, fair dealing, and the material-nonpublic-information line -- as investor judgment you can apply when you read research, hire an adviser, or evaluate a firm. It is not exam preparation and not legal advice; it is the trust layer the rest of analysis sits on.