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Here are some examples of things Ethical Financial Advisors do

Sara Grillo

So here’s a blog about some things that ethical financial advisors do in the hopes they will serve as an example of right behavior for the rest of the industry to follow. Ethics matter in financial advice! Ethics matter. The following case studies serve as examples of ethical actions taken by financial advisors.

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Amplifying 8 Asian-American Voices in Financial Planning

eMoney Advisor

1,2 Despite the small numbers, AAPI professionals remain the largest ethnic minority within the financial planning profession. ” Once named a “Woman to Watch” by InvestmentNews, Cheng uses her high profile for the betterment of the profession, spreading a message about the benefits of skilled and ethical financial planning.

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Monkeys Go Home

Inside Information

The cover article talked about this professional bait-and-switch, and the cover of the magazine featured a monkey in a business suit, with the caption: “These days, everybody is a financial planner. ”. Currently there are no minimum standards for competency or ethics for those professing to be financial planners.

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Why useless financial advisor rankings lists should be put to rest!

Sara Grillo

There was an indexing system envisioned by Brent Weiss of Facet Wealth, described in this article by Bob Veres. Revenue is not an indicator of the effectiveness of the advisor any more than the number or size of clients they have is. Number of employees per client? What about ethics? It’s ridiculous. Impact on the client?

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Should you cancel your CFP designation?

Sara Grillo

Get ready for a ride as we examine it from all angles: regulatory, ethically, intellectually, etc. If we are comparing them to the Utopian idea of what a fraternity of ethics and competence testing should be, then we should find a way to implement it because daydreaming about what it ought to be is less useful.

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

Sara Grillo

I mean, how is the CFP Board even going through a process of due diligence, again, innocent till proving guilty in the sense when they have all kinds of disclosures, but at the same time, they’re publicly reprimanding 40 people, 80 people, whatever the number is, in a given year, out of the tens of thousands. Salaske: Right, now.

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Transcript: Ed Hyman

The Big Picture

. ~~~ This is Masters in business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio Barry Ritholtz : This weekend on the podcast, ed Hyman returns to talk about all things economic analysis, what’s going on in the world, how he’s built an incredible career, oh my God, 43 times number one ranked in the Institutional investor survey in economics.

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