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What Do Financial Adviser Designations Mean? What are the Letters after a Name?

Carson Wealth

Registration Standards for Financial Advisors. The first step in the competency stairway is regulatory compliance. . If a financial service professional represents an insurance company, they must be legally appointed by that company as an agent. Three broad financial planning designations include: .

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Saving investors from the “Humpty Dumpty portfolio” with hourly financial advisor Rick Ferri, CFA

Sara Grillo

We’re going to talk about how he provides high value as an hourly financial advisor by saving investors from the “Humpty Dumpty portfolio” and the lessons other advisors can learn about serving clients with simplicity, transparency, and integrity, whether they choose to adopt the hourly fee model or not.

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Financial planning transparency is FINALLY upon us (whoo hooo!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Sara Grillo

Here’s the triumph of virtue that financial planning transparency will (FINALLY) bring to planners across the country and the benefits to clients that come along with it. We welcome Dwight Dettloff, CPA, CFP, and Knut Rostad to today’s discussion. We’ll cover: What does it mean for financial planning to be transparent?

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This broker vs. financial advisor debate got ABSOLUTELY crazy!

Sara Grillo

“It comes down to the client’s needs, what the strategy is going to provide for the client, and then we look at how we can efficiently affect how those costs hit that client in their portfolio.” – Charles King. Matt Pruitt, CFP®, CFA®. As a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst), he is proficient in creating and managing portfolios.

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Here are some examples of things Ethical Financial Advisors do

Sara Grillo

I have a weekly newsletter in which I talk about financial advisor lead generation topics which is best described as “fun and irreverent.” I am an irreverent and fun marketing consultant for financial advisors. Ethics matter in financial advice! Moore, CFP. So please subscribe! Ethics matter.

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Fiduciary Advocate

Inside Information

The argument with the regulators is that the more they require all advisors (including, of course, wirehouse brokers who call themselves ‘advisors’) to behave as fiduciaries, the more likely investors will be to receive advice in their interests, quality investment counsel, low portfolio expenses and fewer conflicts getting in the way.

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Advice-only financial planners are stealing the show!

Sara Grillo

This interview with Cody Garrett, CFP, of Measure Twice Financial was mind-blowing. It’s so clear to me what the future of financial advice is – what it should be – and what it will be. The industry is typically about the implementation aspect of financial advice not educating and empowering the client.