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What are the Different Types of Financial Advisors?

WiserAdvisor

These professionals also hold expertise in various fields, such as retirement planning, tax management, estate planning, investment management, insurance, debt management, wealth management, and more. Investment advisors help manage and diversify a client’s portfolio to limit their exposure to market volatility.

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This broker vs. financial advisor debate got ABSOLUTELY crazy!

Sara Grillo

Watch as all h&#@ breaks loose discussing the question of broker vs. financial advisor, commissions, fees, value, and more! ” Is it just the fees that are directly debited out of an account, or is the cost of a product (such as an insurance product) relevant? This debate went psycho at times. Is that a fee? What do you think?

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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. The broker-dealer and insurance industries are still built around being opaque. Commissions are opaque. Insurance is opaque.

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Crypto – just a rock, or a good investment? (debate got wild)

Sara Grillo

Early on in his entrepreneurial journey, Scott saw firsthand the inherent flaws and conflicts of interest in the traditional sales and product driven approach, as several family members had lost a significant portion of their hard-earned life savings to high-cost, commission-based investment products and inappropriate advice.

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Should you die and go to hell before selling an annuity?

Sara Grillo

In today’s show we’re going to be debating a variety of topics related to the retirement crisis in America, the role that financial advisors and insurance agents play, and how to harmonize the two together (if even possible, lol). He is a flat fee advisor; not a licensed insurance agent. Are commissions bad?

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Should you cancel your CFP designation?

Sara Grillo

The CFP Board promotes a faux fiduciary standard that does not require its members to disclose potential conflicts of interest in writing and that does not require them disclose the percentage or amount of commission its members may receive from the sale of insurance products with opaque commissions. Source: SEC.

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

Sara Grillo

The CFP Board allows insurance agents to use the mark and call themselves financial planners, but operate outside the regulatory reach of the SEC, and that’s a problem. The confusion is with the CFP. That’s where the confusion is coming from.

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