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Get a job as a Financial Paraplanner at an RIA firm and ignore the schmucky wirehouse and insurance jobs!

Sara Grillo

An RIA firm’s financial advisors must follow the fiduciary standard which is believed to be the highest standard of care in the industry. Fee-only advisor – This is an advisor that does not charge commissions and hence is believed to be more aligned with the client’s best interests.

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Fee-Only vs. Commission-Based Information

Inside Information

You might be interested to know that Arkadios Capital recruited a former LPL team that manages $850 million in client assets. And by the way, LPL recruited Summit Planning Group away from Lincoln Financial. Whenever one broker-dealer recruits an office from another, we are told about it.

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Avoid these terrible financial advisor jobs and get one that rocks! (using these tactics)

Sara Grillo

I’ve come to rescue you from the terrible financial advisor jobs pitched at you by recruiters at wirehouse, bank, and insurance company “training programs.” His smart career decisions after university allowed him to avoid the being tortured and exploited in a wirehouse, bank, and insurance company financial advisor program.

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Is Your Non-Compete Binding? Helpful Tips for Transitioning Advisors

XY Planning Network

4 MIN READ. New year, new firm? Whether you’re changing firms or starting your own, there are many things to consider and do. If notifying or bringing your clients with you is on your checklist, add this task first: C heck employment contract.

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Dystopian Predictions (That Never Come True)

Inside Information

They will create more attractive cultures in order to win recruiting battles, and (separate trait) do what is necessary to keep their talent. A number of thought leaders are cited at the beginning, but I find myself wondering if they would agree with the paper’s analysis and conclusions. Conclusions?

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Transcript: Brian Hamburger

The Big Picture

My father was an investment advisor, and he made his way to be an investment advisor from being a manager with a textile factory to selling insurance to find his way out of that business, went from insurance to financial planning, financial planning to the independent broker-dealer world, independent broker-dealer to hybrid IBD slash RIA.

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

Sara Grillo

We’ll discuss these questions: The CFP Board has specifically stated that it wants the CFP® mark to be a requirement for anyone who practices financial planning. The debaters are: Robert Wright, CFP®, a financial consultant with Advocacy Wealth Management. What is your opinion? Robert will be on the “for” team.

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