Abnormal Returns
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
wsj.com) Sketchy products keep showing up for sale on Amazon ($AMZN). Sentencing Commission show judges rejected more than 80% of compassionate release requests filed from October 2019 through September 2022. mailchi.mp) On the ethics of holding down two full-time jobs. bloomberg.com) Data from the U.S. slate.com)
Walkner Condon Financial Advisors
APRIL 17, 2023
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Walkner Condon Financial Advisors
APRIL 21, 2023
Fee-Only financial advisors and firms receive no sales-related compensation or incentives. In contrast, a commission-based financial advisor receives commissions or other forms of compensation from financial product providers for recommending and selling their products. They are compensated only by the fee the client pays.
Inside Information
OCTOBER 29, 2023
I said that brokers and sales agents are essentially predators, wolves in sheep’s clothing, where the sheep are fiduciary advisors, and the clothing is, well, you know what it is: ‘fee-based’ and ‘best interest’ (instead of fee-only and fiduciary). You might include these words as a tag line in your blogs, and certainly on your website.
Sara Grillo
OCTOBER 31, 2022
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. If the person is an insurance agent or solely a broker selling commission-based products, they will not have to file a Form ADV.
Inside Information
JULY 31, 2022
Currently there are no minimum standards for competency or ethics for those professing to be financial planners. I’m meeting all the highest ethical standards. Mahoney says that right now the organization is looking at a blank slate. Mahoney says that advisors across the board are fed up with the status quo. “I
Inside Information
SEPTEMBER 30, 2023
The interesting thing about the journalism ‘profession’ (it’s really more of an avocation) is that we aren’t bound by any formal ethical rules or guidelines. They are, in my view, exactly like commissioned salespeople who pretend to be professionals and fiduciaries; what they offer is tainted by conflicts, usually undisclosed, often damaging.
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