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Serving Pro Bono Clients As A Busy Advisor: How Advisers Give Back Makes Volunteering Easy

Nerd's Eye View

By helping clients develop financial goals, creating a financial plan, and supporting the implementation and monitoring of the plan, advisors help clients live their best lives. Pro bono financial planning refers to free, no-strings-attached financial advice and planning for underserved people. Read More.

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Serving Pro Bono Clients As A Busy Advisor: How Advisers Give Back Makes Volunteering Easy

Nerd's Eye View

By helping clients develop financial goals, creating a financial plan, and supporting the implementation and monitoring of the plan, advisors help clients live their best lives. Pro bono financial planning refers to free, no-strings-attached financial advice and planning for underserved people. Read More.

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How the SEC Has Strayed From Its Mission

Inside Information

The list of things that would trigger the requirement to register also includes the delivery of a financial plan, holding out as providing advice or holding out in any way (presumably including advertisements) that indicates the offer of holistic financial advisory services.

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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. “A

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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. 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?

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Transcript: Brian Hamburger

The Big Picture

ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: Prior to 2022, when rates were cheap, when rates were zero, when capital was plentiful, it seemed like the entire industry went through this wild merger frenzy. ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: Tell us about your practice. HAMBURGER: It was a lovely place to live for a short period. And yes, we were all in.