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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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Should you die and go to hell before selling an annuity?

Sara Grillo

Are commissions bad? Are commissions bad? Salaske said he wonders if the people who really need them are getting sold annuities that don’t produce a huge commission. Macchia says that agents would be happy to take even a small commission. In early 2015, Scott sold his ownership interest in the firm.

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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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Should the CFP Board police financial advisor “bad apples”? The debate continues! (Part Two)

Sara Grillo

Wright: Yes, So yes, is the quick answer, the more convoluted answer would be that we should control internally… We’re a fraternity of ethics and competency testing that should be different from the SEC. Salaske: Right, now.

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Should you cancel your CFP designation?

Sara Grillo

Get ready for a ride as we examine it from all angles: regulatory, ethically, intellectually, etc. If we are comparing them to the Utopian idea of what a fraternity of ethics and competence testing should be, then we should find a way to implement it because daydreaming about what it ought to be is less useful.

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2016 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

This year, for the first time, the meeting was webcast, so in-person attendance declined a bit from the record 45,000 at the 50th anniversary meeting in 2015. Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. for the S&P® 500.

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Transcript: Dana Mattioli on Amazon’s Everything War

The Big Picture

These are ethically compromised executives who are just hell bent on increasing profits by any means necessary. Thatcame out I wanna say maybe 2015. I mean, you know, it’s a tough world ethic. It seems like ethics is completely irrelevant. And these are not nice people. Its culture, its tactics. Toughen up.

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