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Getting Found – Your Google My Business Listing and the New SEC Marketing Rule

Midstream Marketing

One of the biggest challenges that most investment advisors face involves not just getting found online via search engines like Google, but getting found by the right audience at the right time – meaning a local one. A lot has changed even in the 40 years since the Investment Advisor’s Act was last amended.

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Secure Your Financial Legacy

Yardley Wealth Management

This plan can include a living trust, a legal document that allows assets to pass to beneficiaries without going through probate court. A good financial advisor can provide investment advice and help navigate the various types of financial advisors, such as registered investment advisors and fee-only advisors.

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Why a Stock Peak Isn’t a Cliff

ClearMoney

The information in this document is provided in good faith without any warranty and is intended for the recipient’s background information only. It does not constitute investment advice, recommendation, or an offer of any services or products for sale and is not intended to provide a sufficient basis on which to make an investment decision.

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Top Compliance Challenges Financial Advisors Face

BlueMind

For example, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States or The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) in Canada. Although the purpose is simple: to protect investors, customers, the economy, and society from financial crimes but on the other hand it increased compliance challenges for financial advisors.

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What does it mean to be a Fee-Only financial advisor?

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

Fee-Only financial advisors are most often compensated as a percentage of assets (AUM), though also may be paid hourly, as a retainer, or as a flat fee, depending upon the planner you choose. Fee-Only financial advisors, on the other hand, do not receive commissions and are compensated through a fee-for-service model.

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What type of financial advisor is right for you? Questions you should ask.

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

Fee-Only financial advisors are most often compensated as a percentage of assets (AUM), though also may be paid hourly, as a retainer, or as a flat fee, depending upon the planner you choose. Fee-Only financial advisors , on the other hand, do not receive commissions and are compensated through a fee-for-service model.

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Get a job as a Financial Paraplanner at an RIA firm and ignore the schmucky wirehouse and insurance jobs!

Sara Grillo

RIA firm – a Registered Investment Advisor firm registered with either the SEC or state regulators. An RIA firm’s financial advisors must follow the fiduciary standard which is believed to be the highest standard of care in the industry. What designations does a paraplanner usually have?