Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

What's unique about Melody, though, is how after her first decade in practice, she quadrupled her revenue in the subsequent 2 years by restructuring her business model from standalone hourly engagements and project planning fees to a more holistic wealth management offering that combined investment management and financial planning for a single AUM (..)

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Sara Grillo

MAY 23, 2022

The advice-only movement is a bigger move than a shift in fees – it’s a transcendence to a higher level of morality, transparency, and service to the consumer. What’s up with these “advice-only financial planners?” I am a CFA® charterholder and financial advisor marketing consultant.

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Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

APRIL 21, 2023

What does it mean to be a Fee-Only financial advisor ? Fee-Only financial advisors and firms receive no sales-related compensation or incentives. They are compensated only by the fee the client pays. This fee covers not only investment management, but also financial planning.

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Indigo Marketing Agency

APRIL 28, 2023

Author, Speaker, Life Coach & Veterinary Pharmaceutical Sales” This may be my favorite. Examples of Effective LinkedIn Headlines for Advisors: Fee-only Financial Advisor Serving Widows and Divorcees at Haven Financial Solutions, Inc. Unfortunately, this is the most common headline I see for advisors.

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XY Planning Network

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

your sales or business development plan. Whether you plan to grow a large or boutique firm, there are many actions you must take to legally prepare as you “open the doors” of your firm. With all these “to do’s,” one aspect that doesn’t get enough attention when building a successful pre-launch is. Let’s fix that!

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Sara Grillo

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Advice-only financial planning is fee-only comprehensive financial planning without the expectation or even the option to manage any client investments. Financial planning is offered as a stand-alone product; it is the only thing that an advice-only financial planner does.

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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.’ But not as a financial planner.). Pandemonium!

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Inside Information

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Some of us remember that the consumer revolution, which phased out salespeople and put the consumer in charge of selecting purchases based on price and quality, was very slow to enter the financial services world. The whole idea of turning financial customers into clients was invented in the fee-only financial planning world.

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WiserAdvisor

AUGUST 18, 2023

Knowing the types of financial advisors and their compensation models can empower you to select a professional whose approach aligns seamlessly with your financial goals, risk tolerance, and overall budget. Below are the different types of financial advisors you can choose from based on their fee model: 1.

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Inside Information

MAY 30, 2024

Over the years, I’ve been privileged to witness a long, positive evolution, an evolution where financial planners offered increasingly more valuable advice to their clients, and used better tools to supplement it. When I started in the early 1980s, financial planning was all about sales, all the time.

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Inside Information

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The petition notes that the SEC, in response to litigation from the Financial Planning Association back in 2005, had proposed to go further, and require anyone holding themselves out as a “financial planner” or providing “financial planning services,” or delivering a financial plan to their customers, be required to register as an RIA. .

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Sara Grillo

AUGUST 14, 2023

The standard, however, is often used haphazardly, invoked as a sales tool by dual-registered advisors who want to virtue signal, only to be abandoned in a legal context by those same advisors who backpedal into being “just a salesperson.” Let’s talk about it. It’s about how you behave and the operational standards you follow.

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Sara Grillo

APRIL 11, 2022

And that’s why I’m writing this blog; because I feel that financial advice rendered by the hour is a great thing for the American public (for the reasons we’re going to discuss below). But the idea of becoming an hourly financial planner is met with such resistance you would think you told people to saw off their left arm.

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Inside Information

OCTOBER 30, 2021

B y now, I’m sure most of you are familiar with the Committee for the Fiduciary Standard—but if not, well, it’s a group of prominent advisors who advocate that anybody who holds out as a financial planner or advisor be held to a strict fiduciary standard. Or will brokers go back to winning sales contests?

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Sara Grillo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Salaske: Yeah, I don’t agree with the CFP Board becoming any type of regulator whatsoever over financial advisors, financial planners, whatever you wanna call us in the advice space. Wright: Well, and to respond to that, if I may. The confusion is with the CFP.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 25, 2023

We had to do a for sale by owner because if we sold it using a broker, we would have been way underwater. Everything’s for sale. I’ve been saying, I don’t see how they don’t collapse under the weight of their own fees churning underperformance and the lack of a fiduciary standard. We sold our house.

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