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50th Anniversary Of The CFP Marks: The Journey, Current State Of CFP Board, And Growing The Financial Planning Profession

Nerd's Eye View

Gradually, CFP Board also raised the ethical standards for CFP professionals, introducing a fiduciary standard on financial planning in 2008 and, in 2020, an expanded fiduciary standard that applies whenever the certificant is giving financial advice.

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10 Sunday Reads

The Big Picture

My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • Inside Sam Bankman-Fried’s Family Bubble : At Stanford Law School, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried specialized in ethics and social fairness. He disclosed none of these activities on his annual disclosure forms, an obvious violation of federal ethics law.

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Saturday links: masochistic mental games

Abnormal Returns

wsj.com) De-extincting species raises all manner of ethical questions. npr.org) Weight loss drugs are set to upend medicine, and society. (sciencedaily.com) Cleaning up 'forever chemicals' is no small thing. grist.org) Science Lidar keeps unearthing new ancient cities. npr.org) Do you really want a spaceport in your community?

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Monkeys Go Home

Inside Information

Currently there are no minimum standards for competency or ethics for those professing to be financial planners. I’m meeting all the highest ethical standards. Just like medicine or dentistry, law or accounting, this profession is a noble one, and it deserves respect. I’m delivering high quality plans to my clients.

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NOW 2016 | Gene Editing: Empowering a Cure for Cancer and Other Medical Breakthroughs

Brown Advisory

Andrew Hack, chief financial officer at biotech startup Editas Medicine, said his firm plans to use CRISPR technology to perform precise genetic modification to treat a wide variety of human diseases. Still, Liu noted the potential negative consequences from annihilating an entire species, even one harmful to humans, such as mosquitoes.

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NOW 2016 | Gene Editing: Empowering a Cure for Cancer and Other Medical Breakthroughs

Brown Advisory

Andrew Hack, chief financial officer at biotech startup Editas Medicine, said his firm plans to use CRISPR technology to perform precise genetic modification to treat a wide variety of human diseases. Still, Liu noted the potential negative consequences from annihilating an entire species, even one harmful to humans, such as mosquitoes.

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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. annualized compared with 6.9%