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Get a job as a Financial Paraplanner at an RIA firm and ignore the schmucky wirehouse and insurance jobs!

Sara Grillo

Fee-only advisor – This is an advisor that does not charge commissions and hence is believed to be more aligned with the client’s best interests. Fee-only advisors are bound to the fiduciary standard. This was in 2011 when remote work wasn’t yet popular, so he was limited to the city where he lived.

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

Sara Grillo

Rostad is president of the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard , a not for profit think tank formed in 2011. If you are a fiduciary financial advisor, be prepared to defend the fiduciary standard and explain why you uphold it, what it means, and how your practice is operationally different as a result. Knut Rostad Knut A.

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Recency Bias!!!

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

stocks and Emerging Markets stocks: 2008 and 2011. Large caps beat the foreign stock categories yet still lost thirty-seven percent of their value, while 2011 was the only year where U.S. Oh, I forgot to mention it finished dead last in 2008 and 2011. Large Caps outperformed both Developed ex-U.S.

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Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS): Explaining the Gain Exclusion

Darrow Wealth Management

Darrow Wealth Management is a financial fiduciary and fee-only registered investment advisor. If you have stock options , your exercise date is the acquisition date. The total fair market value is $15M. He sells just enough stock this year to reach the gain exclusion $10 million cap.

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