Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 30, 2023

Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” - this week’s edition kicks off with the news that NAPFA has announced that it will no longer exclude advisors who receive up to $2,500 in annual trailing commissions from previous product sales, if they agree to donate that money to a non-profit organization (..)

Financial Planner 244

Financial Planner Fee Only Commission Retirement Planning 244

Sara Grillo

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Fee-only advisor – This is an advisor that does not charge commissions and hence is believed to be more aligned with the client’s best interests. Fee-only advisors are bound to the fiduciary standard. He never had more than five paraplanning clients at a time. What is a financial paraplanner?

Insurance 98

Insurance Financial Planner Fee Only Financial Advisor 98

XY Planning Network

JANUARY 16, 2023

If notifying or bringing your clients with you is on your checklist, add this task first: C heck employment contract. So, it’s understandable that, should that day come, they find themselves unaware of the restrictions placed on them when it comes to notifying their clients or bringing them with them. 4 MIN READ. New year, new firm?

Clients 73

Clients Assets Management Recruitment 73

Sara Grillo

JULY 18, 2022

I’ve come to rescue you from the terrible financial advisor jobs pitched at you by recruiters at wirehouse, bank, and insurance company “training programs.” Instead, he got his first job at a fee only RIA firm instead which worked out brilliantly for him! Client Service Associate. My nightmare of an experience.

Financial Advisor 52

Financial Advisor Recruitment Insurance Financial Planning 52

Inside Information

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Recently, he wrote a whitepaper that predicted what I would interpret as a cybersecurity apocalypse where suddenly the bad guys successfully targeted advisors and stole from their clients. Hurley is running a new firm that advisors can subscribe to that would offer cyber protection to their clients.)

Wealth Management 40

Wealth Management Clients Management Numbers 40

Inside Information

MAY 30, 2023

I completely get why they would tell this to credulous writers; the public has increasingly shifted away from any taint of ‘sales’ in an advisor relationship, and the concept of hiring an advisor who puts their clients’ interests first (even if most people don’t understand the term ‘fiduciary’) is an attractant.

Communication 40

Communication Sales Compliance Insurance 40

Sara Grillo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

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. Option rate securities were… 0:14:54.9 So it’s very difficult to do that. It is kind of a case by case thing. I still have to argue in that regard.

CFP 59

CFP Financial Advisor Financial Planner Ethics 59