Inside Information

JULY 31, 2022

If you’re as old as Methuselah, like I am, you might remember a pivotal moment in the evolution of the planning profession, when Forbes magazine noticed that brokers, life insurance and tax shelter salespeople were starting to call themselves ‘financial planners.’ I’m meeting all the highest ethical standards. Pandemonium!

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Financial Planner Financial Planning Ethics CFP 45

Sara Grillo

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

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. Macchia says they are not bad, they’re just a different way to get paid.

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Sara Grillo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

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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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2024

And so he set me off in a direction that was practical and at that point, commission business that he generated was ginormous, I’m sure. You know, he went from the cover of Time Magazine to not being with us anymore. My first job was working for Professor Otto Eckstein, who was council Economic Advisors cover of Time Magazine.

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The Better Letter

MARCH 2, 2023

Nearing 400 years ago now, Thomas Hobbes noted and accounted for a crucial difference between geometry and ethics: We disagree about and dispute matters of ethics routinely but geometry almost never. Then again, our values and desires make our search for truth harder still.

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