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Examples of great things ethical financial advisors really like to do!

Envision Wealth Planning

Ethical financial advisors are on the rise and are now doing things within their businesses with the hope to serve as an example of the right behavior for the rest of the industry to follow. Ethics matter in financial advice! Ethics matter. You’ll have to do your own research to determine if these advisors really are ethical.

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Monkeys Go Home

Inside Information

If you’re as old as Methuselah, like I am, you might remember a pivotal moment in the evolution of the planning profession, when Forbes magazine noticed that brokers, life insurance and tax shelter salespeople were starting to call themselves ‘financial planners.’ Yes, there are regulatory requirements to register as an investment advisor.

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Mastering Finances with a Certified Investment/Financial Advisor

International College of Financial Planning

Investment advisors can also specialize in specific areas such as retirement planning, tax planning, or portfolio management. This degree or diploma should be obtained from a university or institution recognized by the Central Government, State Government, or a recognized foreign university or institution.

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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 CFP Board’s long, uninterrupted history of putting its own interests ahead of the consumers makes it decidedly unqualified to govern the financial planning profession. 3 Are the CFP Board’s disclosure requirements too light?

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

Sara Grillo

Wright: Yes, So yes, is the quick answer, the more convoluted answer would be that we should control internally… We’re a fraternity of ethics and competency testing that should be different from the SEC. Salaske: Right, now.

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2016 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. for the S&P® 500.

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Sorted Weekly Tweets

Aleph

companies face reduced cash flows and higher tax bills as they are hit by a double whammy of interest-rate hikes and a tax-law change [link] Fascinating headwinds for corporate earnings. Stock buybacks already get taxed from the capital gains of the seller. you don’t understand the concept of “unknown unknowns.”

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