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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

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 knew before graduating fee-only was the path for him, his conscience, and his personality.

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

Sara Grillo

These services often include recommendations on investments, financial planning, retirement, Social Security, Medicare, tax planning, and other wealth-related topics. ” As an hourly financial advisor he doesn’t make commissions for recommending products such as private REITs, structured products, etc.

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Blunt, unfiltered truth about Indexed Universal Life

Sara Grillo

A tax advantaged asset Death benefit Tax planning needs Cash value growth Cash value liquidity benefits #2 Use a realistic (low) crediting rate in the illustration The assumed interest rate in an illustration is what is driving the long term performance. SARA GRILLO: Other than five and a half, six. Excuse exactly.