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How Presidential Elections Affect the Financial Markets

Your Richest Life

presidential election, and while we can’t predict the outcome, we can predict that there will likely be a response from the financial markets. Exactly how the markets will react is less clear, but history has shown us that in times of great change or uncertainty, markets react. We are days out from the next U.S.

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2025 Q1 Update: Federal Reserve Rates, Inflation and Financial Markets

Your Richest Life

Managing Investments During a Financial Crisis About Your Richest Life At Your Richest Life, Katie Brewer, CFP, believes you too should have access to financial resources and fee-only financial planning. For more information on the services offered, contact Katie today.

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How to Become a Financial Advisor or Financial Planner in India?

International College of Financial Planning

This is because you have been failing to plan your funds because of less time, following the old ways, peer pressure, less understanding of the financial markets, and so on. A financial advisor is a certified financial planner who is licensed and regulated to take mandate decisions on multiple aspects of financial planning.

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Does being a fiduciary financial advisor REALLY matter – or is it “meh?”

Sara Grillo

If you are a fiduciary financial advisor, be prepared to defend the fiduciary standard and explain why you uphold it, what it means, and how your practice is operationally different as a result. From this vantagepoint, she gained unique insight into how financial advice and products are delivered to investors.

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Should you die and go to hell before selling an annuity?

Sara Grillo

Fee only advisors can now purchase annuities for their clients without having to be licensed agents. It was at that point Scott thought there had to be a better way for investors to obtain unbiased advice and low-cost access to the financial markets.

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Should the CFP Board police financial advisor “bad apples”? The debate continues! (Part Two)

Sara Grillo

It was at that point Scott thought there had to be a better way for investors to obtain unbiased advice and low-cost access to the financial markets. That lead him to start Quest Asset Management, with the novel idea of putting investor interests first as a fiduciary, which was practically unheard of at the time.

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