Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 20, 2023

In part, this is due to the many commission-based advisors whose compensation depends on the sale of insurance or investment products, where the price that a client pays is baked into the price of the product or is included in (often opaque) fees associated with buying, selling, and/or holding the investment.

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MainStreet Financial Planning

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

During recent conversations, I’ve come across several people unfamiliar with the concept of fee-only financial planning, let alone considering it as a feasible choice. Importantly, we do not accept sales commissions or any compensation beyond what is directly agreed upon with our clients.

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Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

APRIL 21, 2023

What does it mean to be a Fee-Only financial advisor ? Fee-Only financial advisors and firms receive no sales-related compensation or incentives. They are compensated only by the fee the client pays. Fee-based advisors are where it can get complicated. What does it mean to be a fiduciary?

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Ron A. Rhodes

JANUARY 6, 2024

The insurance lobby is against the imposition of the fiduciary standard by the DOL, as it will lower the excessive commissions often paid on the sale of Fixed Index Annuities…

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WiserAdvisor

AUGUST 18, 2023

Below are the different types of financial advisors you can choose from based on their fee model: 1. Fee-only financial advisors Average cost: $200 to $400 an hour/ $1,000 to $3,000 per plan/ 1.18% to 0.59% of AUM Fee-only financial advisors are professionals who do not receive commissions from selling financial products.

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Truemind Capital

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

. – Hidden costs & agenda : There may be hidden costs in terms of commissions or kickbacks that are not explicitly disclosed while making the sale of any product. Thus, there is a clear conflict of interest as what you hear for “free” is a sales pitch and not genuine advice. Do you still want free advice?

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Sara Grillo

OCTOBER 21, 2022

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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Carson Wealth

AUGUST 28, 2022

They are paid a commission by their underlying broker/dealer or insurance company when a customer purchases a product, such as a mutual fund, annuity or life insurance policy. . The commission is not paid directly by the consumer. Financial advisors who only charge fees might categorize themselves as “fee-only.”

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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).

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International College of Financial Planning

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

They may charge for their services either on a commission basis or hourly rates. However, our advice is to trust financial planners who either take a flat annual fee or charge per hour for managing your portfolio instead of charging a commission on every stock they buy or sell. Go for Fee-Only Financial Advisors.

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Inside Information

MAY 30, 2023

In the accompanying articles, you will read how the ‘top’ broker-dealers are not really in the sales business anymore; they are now becoming national advisory firms. In most cases, with a few exceptions, sales are 40% or more of the total revenues, and are more often over 60%.

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Sara Grillo

JULY 10, 2023

He asked for help and found a support community Right now Thomas is a fee-only fiduciary financial advisor. But when he started out, he was working for a broker-dealer firm that charged commissions. He stumbled across a man named Russ Ford who was a fee-only flat fee advisor, and he liked the message.

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Sara Grillo

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Providing financial plans vs. canned financial plans with a sales agenda. Fee-only vs. fee-based. But… Fee for service (and only fee for service) is a haven where the sales agenda mimicry cannot follow. Fiduciary vs. ‘best interest.’.

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Inside Information

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

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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Sara Grillo

AUGUST 14, 2023

The standard, however, is often used haphazardly, invoked as a sales tool by dual-registered advisors who want to virtue signal, only to be abandoned in a legal context by those same advisors who backpedal into being “just a salesperson.” Commissions are opaque. Let’s talk about it. This is where the confusion comes in.

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Inside Information

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Then came Reg BI, in 2019, where the Commission decided that adopting a separate rule restricting these terms was ‘unnecessary.’. 202(a)(11)(c) of the Advisers Act,” the petition says, “the Commission can increase investor protection by (re-)asserting a distinction between product sales and stand-alone investment advice.”.

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Sara Grillo

JULY 18, 2022

Instead, he got his first job at a fee only RIA firm instead which worked out brilliantly for him! Maybe a quota-driven sales role was the only way for financial advisors to get into the industry in the past- but times have changed and new financial advisors may way more options. So please subscribe! The knowledge gap.

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Inside Information

JULY 31, 2022

And, of course, the pursuit of an SRO opened the door for FINRA (previously the NASD) to argue that it should become that SRO, which would give it free rein to strangle and eliminate these annoying client-first competitors to wirehouse sales agents and asset-gatherers.

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WiserAdvisor

MAY 31, 2022

According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in 2021, American consumers lost over $5.8 You can check the company’s financial statement on the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) EDGAR filing platform. Moreover, indicating a shortage or situation of fast-sale could intimidate you into making a hasty decision.

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Inside Information

JUNE 28, 2023

This is really none of my business, but I can’t help saying that I hate the new policy at the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors regarding trail commissions. We will have to cheapen the hard, strong language that we’re accustomed to using when we recommend working with a fee-only planner.

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Inside Information

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Rostad is currently focused on what he sees as our best chance for meaningful reform: getting the Commission to revise the Form CRS disclosure so that it provides a clearer explanation of the different business models of broker-dealers/wirehouses, on the one hand, and fiduciary RIAs registered with the SEC on the other.

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Inside Information

JANUARY 31, 2022

At the top of my conflict list is sales contests , which basically tell brokers what “investment opportunities” to sell and give them a financial incentive (and, of course, firm-wide recognition to the winners, which is an incentive in itself) to recommend them to their unwary customers. Apparently not very effectively.

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Sara Grillo

APRIL 11, 2022

” As an hourly financial advisor he doesn’t make commissions for recommending products such as private REITs, structured products, etc. And it’s just all hourly, there’s no way you win there at all, no product sales. I was managing their money in. SARA GRILLO, CFA: The attire you hybrid or A and M.

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Sara Grillo

MAY 8, 2023

Indexed universal life (IUL) is often sold using smoke-and-mirrors sales shams, but in this podcast we’ll expose the truth! Listen to this if you are a financial advisors or consumer who wants to see through the crap and make better decisions about whether IUL is good for you (or your client) or NOT. Excuse exactly.

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Sara Grillo

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Fee only advisors can now purchase annuities for their clients without having to be licensed agents. Should those with only insurance licenses that allow them to sell annuities and/or life insurance be held to the same “fiduciary standard” as Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs) with the SEC or state regulators?

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Sara Grillo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

I think that one of the challenging things is that sales kinda has a dirty dirty name to it, right? I think that we do need sales people to sell things, I think sales is just the expression of value, the expression and the communication of value. Now, granted, I don’t think that that’s true.

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