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Announcing IAR Ethics CE Day And The State Of The (Nerd’s Eye View) Blog

Nerd's Eye View

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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NAIFA Member Spotlight: Tom Schmidt: A Journey of Resilience, Relationships, and Advocacy in Financial Services

NAIFA Advisor Today

From an unconventional start in the life insurance business to becoming a highly successful financial professional, Tom has navigated a career filled with challenges and triumphs. However, he quickly discovered that the role centered on life insurance, something he hadnt been aware of beforehand.

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A Question of Ethics: Into the Second Quarter

NAIFA Advisor Today

More Examples from Our Code of Ethics to Collaboratively Close the Coverage Gap We may be taken aback when we fully realize that NAIFA is seriously working through LL Global to raise the life insurance coverage gap among professionals and their companies regarding life insurance in our country.

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50th Anniversary Of The CFP Marks: The Journey, Current State Of CFP Board, And Growing The Financial Planning Profession

Nerd's Eye View

In the mid-20th century, the first phone call for a person who needed guidance on saving or planning for retirement was likely to be to a stockbroker or a mutual fund or insurance salesperson.

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The Value of a CFA Charter: Ethics

Aleph

The title of the talk was “The Value of Ethics –The Value of a CFA Charter.” ” The main point of my talk was that the uniqueness of the CFA Charter did not stem from the “Body of Knowledge” imparted in the exams, but rather from the emphasis on ethics. So what made me decide to write this tonight?

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

Carson Wealth

So much of our world is filled with abbreviations surrounding insurance and investment products, processes, education and accomplishments. . Translating from the secret language of financial planning, the sentence would read “Tammy specializes in insurance. Knowledge earned in school fades over time, even for the best of us.

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Examples of great things ethical financial advisors really like to do!

Envision Wealth Planning

Ethical financial advisors are on the rise and are now doing things within their businesses with the hope to serve as an example of the right behavior for the rest of the industry to follow. Ethics matter in financial advice! Ethics matter. You’ll have to do your own research to determine if these advisors really are ethical.

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