Remove Commission Remove Compliance Remove Fee Only Remove Government
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Financial planning transparency is FINALLY upon us (whoo hooo!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Sara Grillo

Specific examples: Educating financial advisors of all business models (AUM, fee only, commission, etc.) Executing outreach to college students to encourage them to avoid predatory wirehouse and insurance training programs and pursue fee-only paraplanning jobs instead. Mentoring younger advisors.

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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.

CFP 40
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Should the CFP Board police financial advisor “bad apples”? The debate continues! (Part Two)

Sara Grillo

Salaske: Part of it’s regular… you got the SEC, you’ve got state regulators, you get self-governing regulatory bodies like FINRA, and then the CFP Board that wants to basically be a de facto regulator without being a regulator at some point. Securities and Exchange Commission. Securities and Exchange Commission.

CFP 59