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3 Things You Don’t Know About Josh

The Big Picture

billion in fee only asset flows for the full year 2013; 37% of Morgan Stanley wealth management’s total client assets are now in fee based accounts a record high. This also gets reflected in his presentations on Wall Street – if you ever get a chance to see one, Don’t-Walk-Run to be in that audience.

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Is it Wise to Put All Your Money With One Financial Advisor?

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The advisors can be differentiated based on the fee structure they use to charge fees such as fee-only, commission-only, hourly-fee, monthly fee, etc. Do note that you will have to pay the fees in the present no matter how your returns turn out in the future.

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Toward a (Much) Better World

Inside Information

The leading tip of the spear was the first fee-only financial planners, who publicly and even defiantly sat on the same side of the table with their clients. The whole idea of turning financial customers into clients was invented in the fee-only financial planning world.

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Does being a fiduciary financial advisor REALLY matter – or is it “meh?”

Sara Grillo

If their sole method of compensation is a product, and/or they are taking commissions, then in reality it is less likely they are embracing all the values that the standard requires. Commissions are opaque. It should be presented in complete and with total clarity in a plain language way that they can understand.

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5 Reasons to Start Retirement Planning Early

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can come in the way of your plans and present challenges every now and then. Having said that, it is also essential to not get swayed by the present and undermine the future. If you add retirement planning on top of all this, you are more likely to compromise your present financial needs. every once in a while.

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Why It Is Never Too Early to Start Retirement Planning

WiserAdvisor

can come in the way of your plans and present challenges every now and then. Having said that, it is also essential to not get swayed by the present and undermine the future. If you add retirement planning on top of all this, you are more likely to compromise your present financial needs. every once in a while.

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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. What can advisors do? Here are tips.