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Fiduciary Advocate

Inside Information

He thinks that the distinction has been deliberately (and very effectively) blurred by the brokerage industry, which advertises itself as helping facilitate peoples’ dreams with financial planning and investment advice, whose brokers call themselves, on their business cards, advisors, vice presidents of investments or wealth managers.

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Immersion2025 – join the Transparent Advisor Movement

Sara Grillo

Instead of products, the focus here is on people – flat fee, advice only, and hourly advisors and how to refine their service models to benefit their clients more. pricing, technology, compliance) as they build their transparent advice businesses.” This is about connection. The meeting exceeded my expectations!”

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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? Option rate securities were… 0:14:54.9 So it’s very difficult to do that.

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Transcript: Brian Hamburger

The Big Picture

Brian Hamburger has been one of the leading authorities in the world of registered investment advisories, broker-dealers, SEC regulatory compliance. And I would constantly hear them frustrated by the compliance department. HAMBURGER: They were just blaming compliance for everything they couldn’t do. RITHOLTZ: Right.