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Eric Brotman on Building a Collaborative Culture, Targeting Business Development Channels, Sustaining Scale, and Learning to Grow by Letting Go

Steve Sanduski

Guest: Eric Brotman , CFP®, AEP®, CPWA®, is a Principal and the Chief Executive Officer of BFG Financial Advisors. Eric began his financial planning practice in Baltimore in 1994, and founded Brotman Financial Group in 2003, which later became BFG Financial Advisors.

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Does being a fiduciary financial advisor REALLY matter – or is it “meh?”

Sara Grillo

I have a newsletter in which I talk about financial advisor lead generation topics which is best described as “fun and irreverent.” I am an irreverent and fun marketing consultant for financial advisors. Why is the fiduciary standard important in financial advice? What is a conflict of interest in financial advice?

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

when I first moved from Spain, and I learned a lot because I spent a lot of time with financial advisors, which, as you know, is a key segment of our client base today. What is the financial advice world like in Europe? And I always use the exact same example, how will you invest in Google in 1998, or in Facebook in 2003?

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Recency Bias!!!

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

As these tables can take a while to be published or readily available, let’s for now break the past twenty years of available market data into two 10-year periods: 2003-2012 and 2013-2022. In the more recent decade not including 2023 (2003-2012), U.S. During the 2003-2012 period, U.S. Large Cap, Developed ex-U.S.

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Could It Be True?

The Better Letter

He offers tough-love financial advice, hosts a nationally syndicated radio program, and has written several books. That said, over the past 20 years (2003-2022), the S&P 500 delivered a 9.80 Could It Be True? Did I mention that he’s a big deal? percent annualized return while Buffett came in a touch lower at 9.75

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Should you cancel your CFP designation?

Sara Grillo

They wanted to become credible to compete with the brokerage people when selling Master Limited Partnerships and insurance with financial planning credibility, so they got the designation. In 2003, there was a well-known financial planner and radio personality named Bradford Bleidt , JR continues, who ran at $30MM Ponzi Scheme.

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