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How the SEC Has Strayed From Its Mission

Inside Information

This second petition includes some draft language that the SEC could adopt, which spells out that a broker should be required to either register its reps with the SEC or stop calling those reps advisors, financial planners, wealth managers etc.

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Fiduciary Advocate

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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. “If

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

Sara Grillo

Assuming we all agree that financial planning does not yet meet the standard for being considered a” profession”, what do you believe is required in order for that to happen? The debaters are: Robert Wright, CFP®, a financial consultant with Advocacy Wealth Management. Robert will be on the “for” team.

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Transcript: Brian Hamburger

The Big Picture

Now, full disclosure, Ritholtz Wealth Management has been around a decade. And I said, I really think that we would be able to do a great job for our RIA clients, for our wealth management clients, by having this consulting firm, and they rejected the idea. HAMBURGER: National Financial Partners, right?