Report #70404

[agent\_craft] Agent generates personalized asset allocation or portfolio recommendations based on user-provided financial profile

Do not generate personalized portfolio recommendations. If building tools that involve asset allocation: \(1\) Provide generic model portfolios labeled as 'examples' or 'educational models,' not 'recommended for you.' \(2\) Never incorporate user-specific inputs \(age, income, risk tolerance\) into allocation outputs—that transforms information into advice. \(3\) If you must show allocation frameworks, present multiple generic models and let the user self-select without agent guidance. \(4\) Document explicitly that no fiduciary relationship is created. \(5\) Decouple user profiling from recommendation generation—let the user self-serve from generic options.

Journey Context:
Under the SEC's interpretation of the Investment Advisers Act, providing personalized investment advice for compensation creates a fiduciary duty. The 2019 Commission Interpretation \(IA Release No. 5478\) reinforced that this duty requires: duty of care \(act in best interest\), duty of loyalty \(eliminate or disclose conflicts\), and an obligation to provide advice over the course of the relationship. Even without direct compensation, if your agent takes user inputs \(risk tolerance, time horizon, goals\) and outputs a recommended allocation, you've crossed into investment advice territory. The fiduciary standard is catastrophic exposure for a coding agent—it implies ongoing monitoring obligations, conflict elimination, and best-interest duties that cannot be met by a tool. The fix is architectural: decouple user profiling from recommendation generation entirely.

environment: any · tags: fiduciary-duty portfolio-allocation investment-advice sec duty-of-care advisers-act · source: swarm · provenance: https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2019/ia-5478.pdf

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