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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

Gradually, CFP Board also raised the ethical standards for CFP professionals, introducing a fiduciary standard on financial planning in 2008 and, in 2020, an expanded fiduciary standard that applies whenever the certificant is giving financial advice.

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10 Sunday Reads

The Big Picture

That’s been estimated as high as $50 billion a year by the Economic Policy Institute, which extrapolated from a 2008 survey of low-wage front-line workers in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. ( Giving him whatever he wants.

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Satyam Scam – The Story of India’s Biggest Corporate Fraud!

Trade Brains

A Case Study on ‘Satyam Scam’ Accounting Scandal: When the 2008 recession hit the world, India was not only going through a financial crisis but also an ethical crisis. Satyam soon went on to cross the $2billion mark in 2008. 544 in 2008. This was what happened with Satyam Computer Services. 7000 crores.

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Vijay Mallya Scam Demystified | Vijay Mallya Case Study

Trade Brains

In 2008, Kingfisher finally got permission to operate on international routes with its first flight being from Bangalore to London. By 2008, Kingfisher Airlines was carrying 10.9 — 2008 Recession The news of airlines going bankrupt has been particularly dominant in the recent past. What went wrong with Kingfisher?

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Ratan Tata Story: Biggest Achievements & Journey!

Trade Brains

He has been quoted multiple times stating how his grandmother helped him develop a strong set of values and ethics system which have guided him ever since he was a boy. Nine years later Ford was on the verge of bankruptcy after the 2008 global financial meltdown. This gave him an alternative instead of fighting back.

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The Worst Advice I Ever Got

The Irrelevant Investor

The biggest problem with that line, not ethically but actually, is that faking it might get you the meeting, but it didn't help you in the meeting. It was late 2008 and I was making at least a hundred cold calls a day. There might be some professions where this makes sense, but finance isn't one of them.

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Bubbles and Crises: Twenty Years of Lessons Learned

Brown Advisory

We covered a lot of ground in a freewheeling conversation, but one question he asked me really got my attention: “What are the most important lessons you learned from managing through the technology bubble in 2000-01 and the financial crisis of 2008-09?”

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