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Does being a fiduciary financial advisor REALLY matter – or is it “meh?”

Sara Grillo

Dr. Lee’s current research agenda includes investigating the impact of insurance licensing on financial advisor misconduct, analyzing the effect of external vs. internal work commitments on college student performance in hybrid and online learning environments, and examining risk profiles of U.S. transgender male and female investors.

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

Sara Grillo

So that’s fundamentally different, and it makes it harder for us to become a profession that it is, I think for those self-governing bodies… Wright: Well, I guess the only caveat to medicine is when you get into pharmaceuticals. Grillo: Next question. Well, we’ve kind of covered this already.

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Transcript: Brian Hamburger

The Big Picture

There’s not significant licensing, you know, that that takes place. HAMBURGER: And you can scale it down to a single user license. Now you buy a license. HAMBURGER: You buy a single license and you log in and you start to configure it. There’s not a high barrier to entry. RITHOLTZ: Meaning? RITHOLTZ: Right.