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Do I need to use the (r) mark with my CFP designation?

Investment Writing

If you’re using your CFP designation in sales or advertising Here’s what The Chicago Manual of Style says on its website: Q. In publications that are not advertising or sales materials, all that is necessary is to use the proper spelling and capitalization of the name of the product.

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Transcript: Joanne Bradford

The Big Picture

And she has really managed to accomplish tremendous things, not just at Microsoft, where she ran MSNs advertising and marketing, not just at Yahoo or Pinterest, but even a small startup like Honey, which she was president and sold pretty quickly to PayPal for $4 billion. San Diego State studying journalism and advertising. It was fun.

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Transcript: Tom Rampulla

The Big Picture

We didn’t do advertising. Actually, Jack Bogle wouldn’t let us say the word seller, product or advertising. How does Vanguard operate and not advertise, not pay shelf space? We were able to buy advertising really cheap. RAMPULLA: I think financial services for a long time had been a bit stodgy, right.

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Transcript: Charlie Ellis

The Big Picture

RITHOLTZ: I read a crazy statistic somewhere, I don’t recall if it was in the book or elsewhere, in the state of Pennsylvania, the certified financial planners, something like 96% of them in the state work for Vanguard. For example, they believe that a board of directors should have an incentive in the company stock.

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Should you cancel your CFP designation?

Sara Grillo

Despite the incidences mentioned in #5, the CFP Board has spent millions in advertising telling consumers they should always trust a CFP® professional and if they don’t have the CFP designation you just don’t know about their integrity. Verify a CFP® Professional, Financial Advisor U4’s. JR feels this is harmful to consumers. #7

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

Sara Grillo

The advertisements that they produce that says that anyone can call themselves a CFP. It’s baffling to me because actually, the only people who can really do… [unintelligible] anyone can say they’re a financial planner?

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31 Passive Income Ideas to Build Real Wealth (Updated for 2023)

Good Financial Cents

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