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

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

Fee-Only financial advisors and firms receive no sales-related compensation or incentives. They are compensated only by the fee the client pays. This can include mutual funds, insurance policies, annuities, and other financial products. Fee-based advisors are where it can get complicated.

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

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

What does it mean to be a Fee-Only financial advisor ? Fee-Only financial advisors and firms receive no sales-related compensation or incentives. They are compensated only by the fee the client pays. This can include mutual funds, insurance policies, annuities, and other financial products.

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Financial planning transparency is FINALLY upon us (whoo hooo!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Sara Grillo

As the move to transparency in financial planning takes hold, regulations are changing in Colorado and other states. 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 should financial advisors do?

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Get a job as a Financial Paraplanner at an RIA firm and ignore the schmucky wirehouse and insurance jobs!

Sara Grillo

An RIA firm’s financial advisors must follow the fiduciary standard which is believed to be the highest standard of care in the industry. 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.

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Fiduciary Advocate

Inside Information

Rostad is currently focused on what he sees as our best chance for meaningful reform: getting the Commission to revise the Form CRS disclosure so that it provides a clearer explanation of the different business models of broker-dealers/wirehouses, on the one hand, and fiduciary RIAs registered with the SEC on the other.

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Saving investors from the “Humpty Dumpty portfolio” with hourly financial advisor Rick Ferri, CFA

Sara Grillo

An hourly financial advisor is someone who provides financial advisor for a set hourly rate. These services often include recommendations on investments, financial planning, retirement, Social Security, Medicare, tax planning, and other wealth-related topics. Hourly financial advisors are not common.

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Blunt, unfiltered truth about Indexed Universal Life

Sara Grillo

The problem for them is that they went into this deal thinking they were gonna hurt and ET 788%, and they actually end up earning 3 E45%, and that… Is that now their whole financial plans… Erectus Earl. Yeah, you have a short fall. SARA GRILLO: Other than five and a half, six. Excuse exactly. Does that make sense?