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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (April 27-28)

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Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" - this week's edition kicks off with the news that the Department of Labor released the final version of its Retirement Security Rule (a.k.a.

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CFP Board’s Fee Increase For Workforce Development: More Advisors Or Just More Sales Churn?

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But these positions are often tenuous for new advisors, with extremely high failure rates, driven in large part by compensation that is reliant primarily on commissions from product sales.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (February 10-11)

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Also in industry news this week: A recent study finds that having a defined marketing strategy is a linchpin of marketing success, as advisors with a defined strategy were more likely to have seen an increase in inbound leads during the past 12 months and have more confidence in meeting their practice goals during the coming year than those without (..)

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (July 1-2)

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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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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (December 23-24)

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Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" – this week's edition kicks off with the news that Envestnet has published research highlighting a number of key trends that they believe will shape the growth of the advisory industry in 2024 and beyond, which reflect at a high level advisors' ongoing shift towards providing (..)

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Sunday links: too many theories

Abnormal Returns

institutionalinvestor.com) Amazon Amazon ($AMZN) is increasing the number of same-day shipping options. wsj.com) Sketchy products keep showing up for sale on Amazon ($AMZN). Sentencing Commission show judges rejected more than 80% of compassionate release requests filed from October 2019 through September 2022.

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How Listing Fees On Advisory Firm Websites Can Clearly Communicate The Cost (And Value) Of Planning

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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.