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The Bad Actors

The Irrelevant Investor

There is no way that Wells found the 14,000 least ethical financial advisors in the industry. million at the start of 2017, had been charged $128,000 in commissions that year — nearly 10 percent of its valu e, and about 10 times what many financial planners would charge to manage accounts that size.

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How to CRACK the secret costs in an insurance illustration

Sara Grillo

2017, Nov 15). BARRY FLAGG OR STEVEN ZEIGER: So the regulation is clearly written towards the insurance agent with the insurance broker, but every fiduciary ethically should demand that the financial services person involved in the insurance, that they follow the tenants of this regulation. So ethically, I think it applies everywhere.

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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

Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. 2017 Annual Shareholders Meeting.

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Sorted Weekly Tweets

Aleph

link] If you can write something like this without mentioning war, plague, famine, expropriation, etc., you don’t understand the concept of “unknown unknowns.” ” Feb 08, 2023 Some U.S. ” Feb 09, 2023 Bing-O!

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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. I mean, you know, it’s a tough world ethic. But 00:28:12 [Speaker Changed] They tried to carve that out as a separate entity and up until 2017 Amazon was not collecting sales tax in some states. Toughen up.

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