Sara Grillo

APRIL 21, 2022

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. I am an irreverent and fun marketing consultant for financial advisors. Ethics matter in financial advice! Ethics matter.

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Sara Grillo

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Any financial advisor who is registered as an advisor with a regulator has to fill out this form for initial approval by either a state or a Federal (the United States Securities and Exchange Commission) regulator. What if you can’t find the financial advisor’s Form ADV? Ethics matter.

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Sara Grillo

JANUARY 9, 2023

in all aspects of financial advice, with a special focus on Advice Only, Flat Fee, and Hourly service models. The goal of the Transparent Advisor Movement is to create the country’s best financial advisors – the most ethical, effective, and successful financial advisors that the industry has ever seen in its history.

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Sara Grillo

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

You should get this run by compliance before publishing any of this text. You should ask compliance for them. Before we get into it, I’m assuming you’re visiting this page because you are a flat fee financial advisor. Because transparency in financial advice is awesome! Please note: This is just a model.

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Sara Grillo

JUNE 2, 2022

To see this term blurred with the top advisor definition, it makes me mad because it implies that advisors who are selected on the basis of production – and this gives me the sense that this ranking had a lot to do with precisely that – are the best financial advisors. Selling a product does not equal financial advice.

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Sara Grillo

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Get ready for a ride as we examine it from all angles: regulatory, ethically, intellectually, etc. The debaters include: Robert Wright, CFP®, a financial consultant with Advocacy Wealth Management. Wright retorts back that restrictions don’t necessarily mean higher ethical standards.

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Sara Grillo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Salaske: Yeah, I don’t agree with the CFP Board becoming any type of regulator whatsoever over financial advisors, financial planners, whatever you wanna call us in the advice space. Salaske: Right, now.

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