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Mastering Finances with a Certified Investment/Financial Advisor

International College of Financial Planning

If you have an analytical mindset, a keen interest in the financial markets, and the desire to help others achieve their financial goals, a career as an investment advisor may be the perfect fit. A deep understanding of financial markets and investment strategies. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

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How to sniff out a lying grifter in a Form ADV

Sara Grillo

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. Firstmetric.

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How to Become a Financial Advisor or Financial Planner in India?

International College of Financial Planning

This is because you have been failing to plan your funds because of less time, following the old ways, peer pressure, less understanding of the financial markets, and so on. A financial advisor is a certified financial planner who is licensed and regulated to take mandate decisions on multiple aspects of financial planning.

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Should you die and go to hell before selling an annuity?

Sara Grillo

Are commissions bad? Should the insurance companies themselves and/or others who provide marketing services and who assist advisors in marketing/selling annuities or insurance products also be held to the fiduciary standard? Are commissions bad? Macchia says that agents would be happy to take even a small commission.

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Should you cancel your CFP designation?

Sara Grillo

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

Sara Grillo

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. You don’t know that right now, what they’re doing basically… We don’t know what their process is.

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Transcript: Ed Hyman

The Big Picture

And so he set me off in a direction that was practical and at that point, commission business that he generated was ginormous, I’m sure. We have a, a survey we do at the end of the year of Christmas tree sale. How do you measure GDP two weeks or three weeks after the quarter ends or retail sales eight days after the month ends.

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