Nerd's Eye View
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
To earn the CFP marks, candidates must fulfill four key requirements: Education (holding a bachelor's degree and completing the required coursework through a CFP Board registered program), Exam (passing the 170-question CFP exam), Experience (gaining hands-on experience providing financial advice to the public), and Ethics (acting as a fiduciary).
Nerd's Eye View
MARCH 10, 2025
Financial advicers often market their comprehensive financial services as a way to differentiate themselves from other advisory firms and to stand out in the broader landscape of financial advice. While advisors may make educated guesses about client preferences, this approach has its limits.
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Carson Wealth
JANUARY 8, 2025
1 But working with a financial advisor has many additional benefits that can go beyond returns. Knowledge and Personalized Planning Financial advisors can bring a wealth of knowledge from extensive education and experience, helping enable them to craft tailored strategies that align with your unique financial goals.
Nerd's Eye View
JANUARY 10, 2025
Also in industry news this week: A survey indicates that nearly 71% of new financial advisors drop out in the first 5 years, with firms offering better training and mentorship opportunities (as well as entry-level positions that don't come with business development targets) seeing higher employee retention rates How broker-dealer self-regulatory organization (..)
Nerd's Eye View
MARCH 21, 2023
In this episode, we talk in-depth about how, while Brenda was still in high school, her mother died suddenly and she was left with the responsibility of caring for her younger sibling which created a large financial burden that Brenda couldn’t handle despite working 2 jobs and eventually led to her becoming homeless and beginning a cycle of alcohol (..)
Nerd's Eye View
JANUARY 13, 2025
Which is surprising to some, given that a decade ago, the emergence of so-called "robo-advisors" was supposed to displace human financial advisors and compress advisory fees. In reality, though, the robos struggled to gain traction, and the human financial advice business just continues to grow.
Nerd's Eye View
JULY 17, 2023
In the early days when financial advisors were first and foremost salespeople for insurance and investments products, the reality is that "advisor training and education" wasn't really about finance or advice… it was mostly just about learning how the company's products worked and how to effectively sell them to consumers.
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