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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (July 1-2)

Nerd's Eye View

Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” - this week’s edition kicks off with the news that NAPFA has announced that it will no longer exclude advisors who receive up to $2,500 in annual trailing commissions from previous product sales, if they agree to donate that money to a non-profit organization (..)

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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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Avoid these terrible financial advisor jobs and get one that rocks! (using these tactics)

Sara Grillo

I’ve come to rescue you from the terrible financial advisor jobs pitched at you by recruiters at wirehouse, bank, and insurance company “training programs.” Instead, he got his first job at a fee only RIA firm instead which worked out brilliantly for him! For those of you who are new to my blog/podcast, my name is Sara.

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The Lobbying ‘Tell’

Inside Information

In some of the surveys, you will also see the ‘payout range,’ which basically says how much of the rep or rep office’s compensation (commissions and AUM fees) they get to keep, which gives you a back-door way to estimate how much of their revenues are taken by the BD.

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

Sara Grillo

Securities and Exchange Commission. Securities and Exchange Commission. 2022, August 1). CFP® Professional Demographics. 2013, March). Staff of the Investment Adviser Regulation Office. Division of Investment Management. Regulation of Investment Advisers by the U.S. Zweig, Jason, and Fuller, Andrea. 2019, July 30). Wall Street Journal.

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