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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.’ But not as a financial planner.).

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5 Good Elements of a Financial Advisor

International College of Financial Planning

In short, if you don’t have an analytical mind, you are unlikely to succeed in this profession.Investment planning, retirement planning, tax planning, and estate planning require you to dig deep into numbers and make information out of the raw data at hand. Would you term such conduct professional?

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

Sara Grillo

Salaske: Yeah, I don’t agree with the CFP Board becoming any type of regulator whatsoever over financial advisors, financial planners, whatever you wanna call us in the advice space. Wright: Well, and to respond to that, if I may. The confusion is with the CFP.

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