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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (September 16-17)

Nerd's Eye View

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" - this week's edition kicks off with the news that a recent survey indicates financial advisors are the most trusted source of financial advice for consumers across generations, and are particularly trusted among wealthier individuals.

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How Marketing With The CFP Marks Reduces Client Acquisition Costs And Accelerates Revenue Growth

Nerd's Eye View

According to the 2022 Kitces Research study, “How Financial Planners Actually Market Their Services”, advisors without the CFP marks typically spend more of their time on marketing activities relative to CFP practitioners (allowing them to spend more time on higher-value tasks).

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A Proposed Salesperson’s Exemption To The DoL’s Retirement Security Rule?

Nerd's Eye View

The key point is that even though regulatory bodies have recognized the distinct nature of advice relationships of trust and confidence and applied higher standards of care for such advice relationships in the past, the line between sales and advice has blurred in more recent years.

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What is a Financial Plan, and How Do I Make One?

Harness Wealth

Table of Contents What is a Financial Plan? Why is Financial Planning so Important? Crafting Your Personalized Financial Plan: A Step-by-Step Guide The Role of a Wealth Manager or Financial Planner Harness Wealth Can Help What is a Financial Plan?

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How the SEC Has Strayed From Its Mission

Inside Information

The petition notes that the SEC, in response to litigation from the Financial Planning Association back in 2005, had proposed to go further, and require anyone holding themselves out as a “financial planner” or providing “financial planning services,” or delivering a financial plan to their customers, be required to register as an RIA. .

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Transcript: Tom Rampulla

The Big Picture

We didn’t do advertising. Actually, Jack Bogle wouldn’t let us say the word seller, product or advertising. How does Vanguard operate and not advertise, not pay shelf space? But I think the move to fee-based advice in a broker-dealer community really helped drive that. And it’s financial advice.

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Fiduciary Advocate

Inside Information

B y now, I’m sure most of you are familiar with the Committee for the Fiduciary Standard—but if not, well, it’s a group of prominent advisors who advocate that anybody who holds out as a financial planner or advisor be held to a strict fiduciary standard. I participate in their discussions, though I’m not formally a member.

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