Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" - this week's edition kicks off with the news that a recent study by Cerulli has shown a sharp increase in the number of affluent investors willing to pay for advice, which on the one hand reflects the increasing financial complexity in peoples' lives (while they've also gotten (..)

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Darrow Wealth Management

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

A fiduciary must always prioritize their clients’ needs above their own interests and mitigate or disclose any conflicts of interest that may arise. Not all advisors are fiduciaries. For non-fiduciary financial advisors, recommendations may only need to be suitable , not necessarily in the client’s best interest.

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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. At Walkner Condon, all of our advisors are fiduciaries for our clients. What is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) ? FINANCIAL ADVISOR, CANDIDATE FOR CFP® CERT.

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Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

APRIL 17, 2023

Fee-Only financial advisors and firms receive no sales-related compensation or incentives. Fee-Only financial advisors are most often compensated as a percentage of assets (AUM), though also may be paid hourly, as a retainer, or as a flat fee, depending upon the planner you choose.

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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.” The word “fiduciary” is not a marketing term, not just something you throw out there to virtue signal.

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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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WiserAdvisor

AUGUST 18, 2023

Moreover, fee-only advisors are often viewed as fiduciaries, which means they are legally obligated to act in their client’s best interests. A fee-only fiduciary financial advisor has a fiduciary duty to put the client’s needs first, ensuring you get the highest level of transparency.

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