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How to Find a Fee-Only Financial Advisor

Darrow Wealth Management

Fee-only firms are unique as they do not receive commissions from selling financial products, such as insurance policies or investment products. Fee-only financial advisors are often registered investment advisors too, meaning they have a legal duty to act in the clients best interest.

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Three Qualities of a Successful Investment Adviser

Truemind Capital

Fiduciary duty should be on the top of the mind of any genuine adviser. To ensure that the interest of your adviser is totally aligned to yours, an adviser should manage the entire investment in zero-commission products like direct plans of mutual funds and earn only from transparent fee received from you. ARRANGE CALL BACK.

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

Sara Grillo

Legal definition of the fiduciary standard To quote directly from a paper by Attorney Lorna Schnase , two bodies of law form the legal basis for the fiduciary standard: Common law: Under common law principles of agency, an investment adviser, as agent, owes fiduciary duties to its client, as principal.3

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Investing in Pigs and Kidneys: Building a $100 Billion Empire and Revolutionizing Organ Transplants

Investing Caffeine

A whole aisle of books could be written about Rothblatts impressive lifetime accomplishments, but the unique investment opportunity for investors cannot be fully understood without appreciating the person that created United Therapeutics 29 years ago in 1996. How can these ambitious, world-changing goals be achieved?

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

Sara Grillo

Do advisors breach fiduciary duty when they fail to recommend annuities? Should those with only insurance licenses that allow them to sell annuities and/or life insurance be held to the same “fiduciary standard” as Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs) with the SEC or state regulators? Are commissions bad?

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How to CRACK the secret costs in an insurance illustration

Sara Grillo

This e-book contains 47 financial advisor LinkedIn messages, sequences, and scripts , and they are all two sentences or less. You could also consider my financial advisor social media membership which teaches financial advisors how to get new clients and leads from LinkedIn. BARRY FLAGG OR STEVEN ZEIGER: So what that’s worth.

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Transcript: Gretchen Morgenson

The Big Picture

Her last book was a bestseller, “Reckless Endangerment” is all about the mortgage crisis. The current book is called “These Are the Plunderers, How Private Equity Runs and Wrecks America” That’s a little bit of a sensationalistic headline. “Hey, I’m going to write a book in 40 years.” RITHOLTZ: Right.

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