Sara Grillo

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There are a lot of people who consider their fees low but here’s a financial advisor who claims to be charging 60-80% lower fees than the “full-service” wealth management firms who are his competition. What does low fee financial advice actually look like, from the inside? Does he actually do this?

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Steve Sanduski

OCTOBER 24, 2023

But there’s a fruitful middle ground between AI’s future potential and current limitations where advisors can find practical ways to streamline processes and focus more of their time on the human side of financial advice. Ethical and compliance challenges advisors need to address as they add AI to their workflows.

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Diamond Consultants

MAY 9, 2023

Wealth management is, after all, a business. Considering that question first from the advisor’s perspective, most can articulate exactly the services they are providing to warrant the fee they charge clients: financial planning, investment management, safe custody of assets, overall financial advice, etc.

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Sara Grillo

OCTOBER 21, 2022

In this blog, I interview paraplanning professionals to get their take on what the role is, what it pays, and what it potential is for someone who wants to get a job as a financial paraplanner, possibly as a stepping stone to other wealth management jobs. I am a CFA® charterholder and I used to be a financial advisor.

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Carson Wealth

JULY 12, 2022

Registration Standards for Financial Advisors. The first step in the competency stairway is regulatory compliance. . If a financial service professional represents an insurance company, they must be legally appointed by that company as an agent. Investments and Wealth Management.

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Sara Grillo

APRIL 21, 2022

I have a weekly newsletter in which I talk about financial advisor lead generation topics which is best described as “fun and irreverent.” I am an irreverent and fun marketing consultant for financial advisors. Ethics matter in financial advice! For advise on such matters, contact a legal or compliance advisor.

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Sara Grillo

JANUARY 9, 2023

The move to financial planning transparency is aflame! in all aspects of financial advice, with a special focus on Advice Only, Flat Fee, and Hourly service models. The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of Sara Grillo or Grillo Investment Management, LLC. Client advocacy.

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Sara Grillo

DECEMBER 12, 2022

pay me for investments, for the easy work that I can outsource to a third party manager, and I’ll give you all this hard stuff for free…I don’t believe that., Matt founded Exhale Wealth Management to provide comprehensive financial planning to individuals with complex lives, most notably technology employees with equity compensation.

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Sara Grillo

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

You should get this run by compliance before publishing any of this text. You should ask compliance for them. Before we get into it, I’m assuming you’re visiting this page because you are a flat fee financial advisor. Because transparency in financial advice is awesome! Advice only planner one page tearsheet.

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Inside Information

OCTOBER 30, 2021

He thinks that the distinction has been deliberately (and very effectively) blurred by the brokerage industry, which advertises itself as helping facilitate peoples’ dreams with financial planning and investment advice, whose brokers call themselves, on their business cards, advisors, vice presidents of investments or wealth managers. “If

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Indigo Marketing Agency

MAY 5, 2020

Whether you’re a plan advisor, we support you in that endeavor, but what we’re partnering with Claire on today is to talk about the wealth management side and the rollover side of the equation. And they’re going to need financial advice and guidance as to whether annuitize or a lump sum.

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Sara Grillo

MARCH 13, 2023

The worst part is that their wealth management clients’ portfolios will be stuffed with this crap. The Transparent Advisor Movement’s mission is to promote ideals of clarity, modesty, integrity, dignity, and client advocacy in all aspects of financial advice, with a special focus on Advice Only, Flat Fee, and Hourly service models.

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Sara Grillo

MAY 23, 2022

This interview with Cody Garrett, CFP, of Measure Twice Financial was mind-blowing. It’s so clear to me what the future of financial advice is – what it should be – and what it will be. The industry is typically about the implementation aspect of financial advice not educating and empowering the client.

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Sara Grillo

APRIL 11, 2022

Please conduct your own diligence on any wealth manager you are considering hiring. And that’s why I’m writing this blog; because I feel that financial advice rendered by the hour is a great thing for the American public (for the reasons we’re going to discuss below).

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The Big Picture

APRIL 25, 2023

Brian Hamburger has been one of the leading authorities in the world of registered investment advisories, broker-dealers, SEC regulatory compliance. Now, full disclosure, Ritholtz Wealth Management has been around a decade. And I would constantly hear them frustrated by the compliance department. We retained your firm.

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Sara Grillo

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The debaters include: Robert Wright, CFP®, a financial consultant with Advocacy Wealth Management. John Robinson (“JR”), Founder of Financial Planning Hawaii, Inc. The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of Sara Grillo or Grillo Investment Management, LLC.

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Sara Grillo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Assuming we all agree that financial planning does not yet meet the standard for being considered a” profession”, what do you believe is required in order for that to happen? The debaters are: Robert Wright, CFP®, a financial consultant with Advocacy Wealth Management. Robert will be on the “for” team.

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

Um, case anybody that says anything, non-compliant, compliance tracks that also the watch list is just sort of fun. Josh Brown is the partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management, but for you, I never would have met Josh. So to think that… RITHOLTZ: This is not financial advice, you can say it on the air. LINDZON: Yes.

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