Sara Grillo

MAY 23, 2022

The advice-only movement is a bigger move than a shift in fees – it’s a transcendence to a higher level of morality, transparency, and service to the consumer. What’s up with these “advice-only financial planners?” I am a CFA® charterholder and financial advisor marketing consultant.

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Sara Grillo

MARCH 22, 2024

Please note: This list of flat fee and advice-only advisors by state is not an endorsement of any particular individual, their firm, or their services; please do your own research when selecting a financial advisor. Arkansas Jacob George [link] Flat-fee financial planning for Christian families wanting to make an eternal impact!

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Sara Grillo

JANUARY 8, 2024

While financial planning has become more popular, it’s still not center stage for most advisors. I’ve got Zack Hubbard , the director of financial planning and participant engagement at Greenspring Advisors, a fee only RIA. While financial planning has become more popular, it’s still not center stage for most advisors.

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Inside Information

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Some of us remember that the consumer revolution, which phased out salespeople and put the consumer in charge of selecting purchases based on price and quality, was very slow to enter the financial services world. The whole idea of turning financial customers into clients was invented in the fee-only financial planning world.

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Sara Grillo

JANUARY 9, 2023

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. What can advisors do? Here are tips.

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Sara Grillo

AUGUST 14, 2023

According to the Consumer Federation of America , When they are marketing their services to the investing public and enticing clients into handing over their hard-earned savings, these sales-based financial professionals present themselves as “trusted advisors” whose only concern is their clients’ best interest.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 25, 2023

I’ve been saying, I don’t see how they don’t collapse under the weight of their own fees churning underperformance and the lack of a fiduciary standard. To me, it just makes more sense that your financial planner should be more like your attorney than a used car salesman. But that’s starting to change.

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