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The Ultimate Guide to Bookkeeping for Home Service Contractors

Steve Feinberg

For home service contractors, completing your workload, attracting new clients, and keeping up to date with all the applicable codes and licensing your business needs can already be a monumental task. Not only is it required by law, but proper tax compliance ensures that your business avoids penalties and maximizes tax returns and deductions.

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Global Leaders Strategy Annual Investment Review: January 2023

Brown Advisory

The business has progressed during the past three years as a result of strategic objectives on business digitisation, continued investment into the Premier Agency sales model, and expansion within mainland China through new provincial license approvals. In China alone, we believe AIA still has meaningful growth opportunities.

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Should you cancel your CFP designation?

Sara Grillo

JR agrees, stating that 70% of CFP holders have insurance licenses. #4 Since 70% of CFP® mark holders have insurance licenses, anything they do on the insurance side (outside of variable products) is not regulated by the SEC. Wright argues that context is everything and that advertising on its own does that create harm.

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What’s it like being an Edward Jones financial advisor?

Sara Grillo

And the reason that I’m going into this is that I want people to understand what it’s advertised as is what it eventually ends up being and the different angles on that, so… What else were you thinking at that point? SARA GRILLO, CFA: Okay, so a, what was your original motivation for taking the offer then… 0:02:06.6

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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.