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Good Preparation Leads to a Good Audit Experience: What to Expect from Your Investment Advisor

Brown Advisory

Good Preparation Leads to a Good Audit Experience: What to Expect from Your Investment Advisor mhannan Wed, 04/20/2022 - 06:03 After an extended period of strong returns that began in 2009, many not-for-profit (NFP) organizations find themselves increasingly challenged to earn the traditional target of an inflation-adjusted 5% annual spending rate.

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Financial planning transparency is FINALLY upon us (whoo hooo!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Sara Grillo

What are the changes in Colorado investment advisor regulations regarding financial planning? Working with advocacy groups to influence policy, law and governance. Mentoring younger advisors. Matching up advisors one on one to be accountability partners and support each others growth. Let’s get into it, folks!

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Fiduciary Advocate

Inside Information

If we could actually focus on plain language,” he says, “and say: this is what the business and the practices of broker-dealers are, and this is what the business and practices of investment advisors are , then I believe investors would understand it perfectly well. Rostad mentions disclosure.

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Transcript: Brian Hamburger

The Big Picture

Brian Hamburger has been one of the leading authorities in the world of registered investment advisories, broker-dealers, SEC regulatory compliance. And I would constantly hear them frustrated by the compliance department. HAMBURGER: They were just blaming compliance for everything they couldn’t do. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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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. 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.

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Keep your clients far away from ESG investing – it’s a rip-off!

Sara Grillo

ESG vocab Before we get into it, let’s start with some basic definitions: ESG: ESG stands for “Environmental, Social, and Governance” and it’s a style of investing that purports (but does not, in reality) save the world from its evils. at the end of 2020, while standard ETFs that invest in U.S. Who wants to take it?