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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Feb 18-19)

Nerd's Eye View

Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” - this week’s edition kicks off with the news that the SEC is proposing to expand the adviser custody rule beyond securities and funds to cover all assets in a client’s portfolio, including private securities, real estate, derivatives, and cryptoassets.

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CFP Board’s Crypto Guidelines Offer a Word of Caution

eMoney Advisor

When it comes to CFP® professionals and cryptocurrency, the CFP Board’s Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct dictates that CFPs® should treat crypto-related assets the same as any other form of financial asset. Crypto in the News. Much of this is due to their extreme volatility and challenges with regulation.

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How to Choose a Personal Financial Advisor

Park Place Financial

These professionals work with wealthy people, helping them manage their assets and offering related financial assistance. A key indication of an advisor’s dedication to acting in the client’s best interest is the mention of fiduciary duty. Some advisors do not observe fiduciary duty but are bound to a suitability standard.

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How to Lower Your Financial Advisor Expenses

WiserAdvisor

Advisors have different fee structures where you can hire their services on an hourly rate, a retainer basis, or the assets under management (AUM) model where the advisor is paid a certain percentage as fee based on the amount of assets managed by him on behalf of his clients.

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Does being a fiduciary financial advisor REALLY matter – or is it “meh?”

Sara Grillo

Legal definition of the fiduciary standard To quote directly from a paper by Attorney Lorna Schnase , two bodies of law form the legal basis for the fiduciary standard: Common law: Under common law principles of agency, an investment adviser, as agent, owes fiduciary duties to its client, as principal.3

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What type of financial advisor is right for you? Questions you should ask.

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

Fee-Only financial advisors are most often compensated as a percentage of assets (AUM), though also may be paid hourly, as a retainer, or as a flat fee, depending upon the planner you choose. How we are Compensated At Walkner Condon we use the assets under management (AUM) model. We use them as the custodian for our clients’ assets.

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What does it mean to be a Fee-Only financial advisor?

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

Fee-Only financial advisors are most often compensated as a percentage of assets (AUM), though also may be paid hourly, as a retainer, or as a flat fee, depending upon the planner you choose. At Walkner Condon we use the assets under management (AUM) model. We get paid based on a percentage of a client’s assets that we manage.