Inside Information

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This first petition also touches on dually-registered individuals, recommending that, if they hold themselves out as advisors, they be required to disclose precisely when their work as an advisor ends and their efforts to effect a sale begins—something that is far from clear in current client engagements.

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Sara Grillo

APRIL 11, 2022

We’re going to talk about how he provides high value as an hourly financial advisor by saving investors from the “Humpty Dumpty portfolio” and the lessons other advisors can learn about serving clients with simplicity, transparency, and integrity, whether they choose to adopt the hourly fee model or not.

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Inside Information

OCTOBER 30, 2021

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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Sara Grillo

MAY 23, 2022

This interview with Cody Garrett, CFP, of Measure Twice Financial was mind-blowing. It’s so clear to me what the future of financial advice is – what it should be – and what it will be. Financial planning is offered as a stand-alone product; it is the only thing that an advice-only financial planner does.

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Sara Grillo

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Fee only advisors can now purchase annuities for their clients without having to be licensed agents. Grillo jumps in, hypothesizing that there is not enough of a match between the skills required to sell an annuity and what it takes in reality in terms of understanding if the product truly matches up with what the client needs.

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Sara Grillo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

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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The Big Picture

APRIL 25, 2023

Now, full disclosure, Ritholtz Wealth Management has been around a decade. My first job out of law school was at a mid-sized law firm out of Princeton, New Jersey, and I would have clients who wouldn’t call when an issue arose. For most of the clients that come to us for startup work, right? We retained your firm.

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