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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

The people who come to Immersion are those who are called to the mission of furthering the ideals of: Honesty Integrity Humility Fairness Logic, and Advocacy in all aspects of financial advice, with a special focus on Advice Only , Flat Fee , and Hourly service models. I look forward to more!

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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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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.