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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

In the mid-20th century, the first phone call for a person who needed guidance on saving or planning for retirement was likely to be to a stockbroker or a mutual fund or insurance salesperson. So, in the late 1960s, a movement began to organize and promote best practices that would establish financial planning as a true profession.

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Monkeys Go Home

Inside Information

If you’re as old as Methuselah, like I am, you might remember a pivotal moment in the evolution of the planning profession, when Forbes magazine noticed that brokers, life insurance and tax shelter salespeople were starting to call themselves ‘financial planners.’ Pandemonium!

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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%

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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%

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Should the CFP Board police financial advisor “bad apples”? The debate continues! (Part Two)

Sara Grillo

We’ll discuss these questions: The CFP Board has specifically stated that it wants the CFP® mark to be a requirement for anyone who practices financial planning. John Robinson (“JR”), Founder of Financial Planning Hawaii, Inc. What is your opinion? What do you believe the CFP Board’s role should be in the future?

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Transcript: Kathleen McCarthy

The Big Picture

MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right? MCCARTHY: — and end up in M&A on Wall Street.

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Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

The Big Picture

What were your early career plans? And number two, it may interest you to know, here are four or five different funds in the same situation. These are big numbers. When you compare it to law, to medicine, to — RITHOLTZ: Centuries, right. And I realized I have his home number. RITHOLTZ: Wow. RITHOLTZ: Sure.