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New SEC Requirement for Investment Advisers: Documenting Annual Compliance Program Reviews

XY Planning Network

With the overwhelming amount of rulemaking taking place at the SEC, the operational impact of maintaining compliance, when taking into account the totality of the rules recently finalized and currently being proposed, is sure to be significant for most investment advisers going forward.

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What does it mean to be a Fee-Only financial advisor?

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

Fee-Only financial advisors and firms receive no sales-related compensation or incentives. They are compensated only by the fee the client pays. Fee-Only financial advisors, on the other hand, do not receive commissions and are compensated through a fee-for-service model.

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What type of financial advisor is right for you? Questions you should ask.

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

What does it mean to be a Fee-Only financial advisor ? Fee-Only financial advisors and firms receive no sales-related compensation or incentives. They are compensated only by the fee the client pays. This fee covers not only investment management, but also financial planning.

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Get a job as a Financial Paraplanner at an RIA firm and ignore the schmucky wirehouse and insurance jobs!

Sara Grillo

Fee-only advisor – This is an advisor that does not charge commissions and hence is believed to be more aligned with the client’s best interests. Fee-only advisors are bound to the fiduciary standard. He knew before graduating fee-only was the path for him, his conscience, and his personality.

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

Sara Grillo

Specific examples: Educating financial advisors of all business models (AUM, fee only, commission, etc.) Executing outreach to college students to encourage them to avoid predatory wirehouse and insurance training programs and pursue fee-only paraplanning jobs instead. Some define it as a document, others as a service.

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Fiduciary Advocate

Inside Information

In Rostad’s view, this is the very disclosure document that could be eliminating investor confusion about the different business models and agendas. “If It is not that investors are stupid; it is that investors are being intentionally misled.”. But what does the have to do with the SEC’s new disclosure Form CRS?

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Blunt, unfiltered truth about Indexed Universal Life

Sara Grillo

So let’s just suppose that I’m Mr. And Mrs. Financial advisor, and let’s just even suppose I’m a fee-only advisor just for the purpose of simplicity, I do not sell insurance, I don’t get compensated for insurance, I can accept commissions if someone needs term life, I refer them to the insurance agent down the street.