Sara Grillo

JANUARY 9, 2023

Here’s the triumph of virtue that financial planning transparency will (FINALLY) bring to planners across the country and the benefits to clients that come along with it. What are the changes in Colorado investment advisor regulations regarding financial planning? Client advocacy. Mentoring younger advisors.

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Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

MARCH 15, 2023

Bespoke Portfolios Not only can a portfolio be used to replicate a standard index, it also can be designed specifically for an investor and/or investment advisor to tilt the asset allocation to better match their needs. While expenses are important, sometimes recognizing higher fees could be in the client’s best interest.

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Taxes Financial Advisor Asset Allocation Portfolio 52

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.

Financial Planner 40

Financial Planner Financial Planning Commission Sales 40

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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CFP Commission Education Investing 40

Sara Grillo

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Yet the investment and insurance communities seem to be on two different sides of the fence when it comes to a solution. Fee only advisors can now purchase annuities for their clients without having to be licensed agents. It’s not the cheapest for the client. Grillo believes annuities are oversold.

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Insurance Financial Advisor Retirement License 59

Sara Grillo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The debaters are: Robert Wright, CFP®, a financial consultant with Advocacy Wealth Management. JR: The advisors were as much the victims as their clients were, and the brokerage firm would say they were all inappropriate behavior, so they’re all disclosures. Robert will be on the “for” team.

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CFP Financial Advisor Financial Planner Ethics 59

The Big Picture

APRIL 25, 2023

Now, full disclosure, Ritholtz Wealth Management has been around a decade. You turned out to be the first dual economics financial management major at Quinnipiac. You turned out to be the first dual economics financial management major at Quinnipiac. For most of the clients that come to us for startup work, right?

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