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How to sniff out a lying grifter in a Form ADV

Sara Grillo

Any financial advisor who is registered as an advisor with a regulator has to fill out this form for initial approval by either a state or a Federal (the United States Securities and Exchange Commission) regulator. If the person is an insurance agent or solely a broker selling commission-based products, they will not have to file a Form ADV.

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This broker vs. financial advisor debate got ABSOLUTELY crazy!

Sara Grillo

Watch as all h&#@ breaks loose discussing the question of broker vs. financial advisor, commissions, fees, value, and more! The advisors made the point that the cost of insurance can’t be separated from the “cost of service” or the commission the agent makes. If you’re going out for 20 year term, who cares what the commission is?

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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: January 2024

Brown Advisory

Statistically, these are known as Type 1 errors of commission (or inclusion) having fallen for a false positive signal. A firm that claims compliance with the GIPS standards must establish policies and procedures for complying with all the applicable requirements of the GIPS standards. The Composite creation date is August 26, 2015.

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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: August 2023

Brown Advisory

Return is for period May 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015 Brown Advisory Institutional claims compliance with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®) and has prepared and presented this report in compliance with the GIPS standards. The Composite creation date is August 26, 2015.

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Global Leaders Strategy Annual Investment Review: January 2023

Brown Advisory

We think the quality of the investments within the portfolio today is probably at its highest since launch back in early 2015. Since inception in May 2015, Global Leaders has compounded at 9.2% Charles Schwab 9 We have been invested in Charles Schwab (Schwab) since the launch of Global Leaders in 2015. in 2020 and 34.2%

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How to CRACK the secret costs in an insurance illustration

Sara Grillo

In 2015, they came out with AG 49 because the crediting rates appeared similar from company to company but were actually very different. In 2015, the AIC of their own conclusion said, Well, wait a minute, we got insurance companies calculating premiums using apparently similar crediting rage, but vastly different credit.

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Blunt, unfiltered truth about Indexed Universal Life

Sara Grillo

There was a great article in ThinkAdvisor in 2015 that provided an example of how the options written on IUL work. Source: Sara’s Grillo’s interpretation of knowledge imparted by ThinkAdvisor 2015 article, “How (and why) indexed universal life really works.” 2015, April 6 th ). What is AG49? Investopedia.