Commission Investment Planning License Sales 
Sara Grillo
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Watch as all h&#@ breaks loose discussing the question of broker vs. financial advisor, commissions, fees, value, and more! The advisors made the point that the cost of insurance can’t be separated from the “cost of service” or the commission the agent makes. If you’re going out for 20 year term, who cares what the commission is?
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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Sara Grillo
APRIL 10, 2023
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.
Good Financial Cents
AUGUST 18, 2023
This opened doors to exclusive realms like hedge funds, venture capital firms, specific investment funds, private equity funds, and more. Even though I had this “exclusive access” it took me awhile to start investing in alternative asset classes. Examples include Series 7, Series 65, and Series 82 licenses.
Sara Grillo
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
He is a flat fee advisor; not a licensed insurance agent. With annuities now being able to be offered in 401k plans, the playing field has changed. Fee only advisors can now purchase annuities for their clients without having to be licensed agents. Are commissions bad? Scott Salaske , CEO of Firstmetric.
Sara Grillo
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
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.
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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