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The Motley Fool November 27, 2006 Dan Caplinger	Financial Planning Ethics With the increasing complexity of the financial world, it's increasingly important to find professionals you can trust. By choosing a financial planner who is governed by strict ethical principles and guidelines, you can feel more confident that you will get the advice and assistance you deserve.
Financial Advisor February 2007 Roy Dilberto	Establishing Trust In Financial Planning For large wirehouses, they need to understand that business is not leaving them and being transferred to independent advisors because of the fee structure. It is because most of these people are registered as investment advisors and follow the spirit as well as the letter of the fiduciary relationship.
Financial Planning August 1, 2005 Bert Whitehead	AUM Under Fire The financial adviser's quandary: how to construct an ethical fee arrangement. Until recently, charging clients a percentage of assets under management (AUM) was considered a legitimate fee-only option. But today this approach is having its moment of scrutiny.
Investment Advisor April 2010 Olivia Mellan	Cover Story: The Upside of Irrationality Dan Ariely, a professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University, has wondered for years why people often don't act in their own best interest. As advisors, how can you use this knowledge?
Financial Planning September 1, 2007 Rick Kahler	Practice What You Preach Financial planners who want to enhance their financial lives and improve their professional skills could benefit greatly from hiring their own planner. So why don't they?
Financial Planning November 1, 2006 Daniel B. Moisand	Keep Standards High Financial planning is surprisingly under-regulated. The rules that do exist apply primarily to subset disciplines. As a result, all planners are regulated but no one really regulates planning.
Investment Advisor September 2007 James E. Kearney	No Rest for the Planning Industry It's important for the profession to take a three-pronged approach to financial literacy: advancing the profession; educating the public; and growing planners for the future.
Investment Advisor July 2009 Robert F. Keane	The Ethics of Advice In Australia, members of the Financial Planning Association must adhere to the (slightly abridged) following Code of Ethics.
Investment Advisor January 2006 Bob Clark	Clark at Large: Two Steps Back? Just when FPA is moving into high gear, some of its rhetoric sounds suspiciously retro.
Investment Advisor December 2005 Bob Clark	Clark at Large: Professional Courtesy Can financial planners become professionals? After the first 25 years, the jury's still out.
Investment Advisor September 2006 Bob Clark	Clark at Large: Board to Death: Reloaded Think the Certified Financial Planner Board had gone mainstream? Think again. Here's a recap of Board CEO Sarah Teslik's recent off-the-wall comments.
Financial Planning September 1, 2008 Blaine Aikin	New Disclosure Regimen Planners are facing considerable competition from brokers in the arena of retirement plans, and the reality that brokers typically don't work as fiduciaries is a thorn in planners' sides.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2006 John Churchill	Of Two Minds An internecine argument at the FPA gets to the heart of one of the industry's more vexing problems: Should brokers be able to position themselves as financial planners?
Registered Rep. September 29, 2011 Jerry Gleeson	Financial Planners Broaden National Pro-Bono Outreach As Americans continue to struggle with finances, a consortium of financial planners will sharply broaden an annual outreach next month to consumers looking for free professional advice.
Financial Planning June 1, 2012 Bob Veres	Stop Imaginary Planning Our profession's history is a story of mass migration away from, and then back to, what we might call real planning.
Registered Rep. September 13, 2004 John Churchill	A Broker or An Advisor? A hot topic among the financial planning community as financial planners continue to try to define and bolster themselves as a profession: fiduciary status. Of particular concern is the "broker-dealer exemption rule" to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
Investment Advisor November 16, 2010 Olivia Mellan	Future Imperfect Six pioneering advisors and observers present a likely view of the essentially unknowable. I asked several well-respected thinkers and planners about the most significant challenges that financial advisors will face.
Financial Advisor August 2012 Roy Diliberto	Labels Matter Financial planning will never be understood if those who practice it don't call themselves financial planners.
Financial Planning October 1, 2010 Katherine Reynolds Lewis	Study Harder New Dodd-Frank legislation kick-started two major initiatives that could transform the way financial advice is regulated and for the first time subject financial planning to explicit regulatory oversight.
Financial Planning October 1, 2006 Elizabeth O'Brien	The Fiduciary Fracas Debate and controversy over the elusive standard could be just what the industry needs.
Financial Planning December 1, 2012 Bob Veres	Defining 'Real' Planning: Who Are The Real Financial Planners? If you re not doing the hard work of developing detailed plans for your clients, maybe you need a new job description.
Investment Advisor February 2007 Robert F. Keane	Catching up with... Lew Altfest An interview with the associate professor of finance and author of Personal Financial Planning, which is already being adopted in college classrooms around the country, about Total Portfolio Management.
Financial Advisor August 2005 Diliberto & Anthony	Value Propositions That Last A Lifetime Great financial planners don't engage in games of pretense. They connect at the heart. The value proposition that connects with the heart is not easily threatened or broken.
Financial Advisor May 2010 Bill Bachrach	What Lower Standards Bring A lack of fiduciary standards for the industry means that as an advisor you have a competitive advantage when you put the client first.
Financial Planning February 1, 2007 Bob Veres	Origin of Our Species Financial planning has gone through some powerful evolutionary stages, but in some respects, the past is still with us.
Financial Planning August 1, 2012 Donald Jay Korn	Split Decisions A fundamental fact of divorce is that it realigns relationships. When their clients divorce, financial planners must make sure they promptly and clearly redefine their own relationships with those clients.
Financial Planning July 1, 2005 James A. Barnash	Why We're Suing The FPA president explains the lawsuit over the SEC's broker-dealer rule that exempted certain broker-dealers from disclosure standards that apply to investment advisers and most financial planners.
Job Journal February 20, 2005 Julia Hollister	Financial Planning: Careers that Pay Dividends Expert financial planners keep their wise clients healthy and wealthy. Includes recommended websites on careers in finance.
National Defense February 2012 Sean M. Connolly	Update Emerges For New Personal Conflicts of Interest Rule Effective Dec. 2, 2011, the Federal Acquisition Regulation requires U.S. government contractors and subcontractors to prevent personal conflicts of interest that arise during their employees' performance of certain acquisition functions.
Financial Planning September 1, 2010 Marc Freedman	Word Games The public wants to hire financial planners who can visibly showcase an ongoing commitment to their words and promises.
BusinessWeek October 23, 2006 Arlene Weintraub	"Disclosure Is A Lousy Solution" Even as disclosure has emerged as the all-purpose solution for financial conflicts of interest in medicine, recent research suggests that the practice may exacerbate the problem.
Financial Advisor December 2004 Jeff Hollowniczky	Outsourcing By Multi-Client Family Offices Whether you are a multi-client family office (MFO), an existing single-family office or a comprehensive wealth management firm thinking of offering services to other families, one of the most crucial decisions you will face is which services to outsource.
Financial Planning February 1, 2011 Allan S. Roth	Savers and Spenders What makes some people focus on squirreling away a large nest egg, while others are hopelessly oblivious to reminders to save and end up in debt? It turns out that the psychology of saving is complex, and surprisingly little research has been published on the subject.
Investment Advisor April 2010 Olivia Mellan	Professor Ariely's Insights, In Brief The impact of money on cheating, generosity, and job performance. Insight into decision making and irrationality.
Financial Planning August 1, 2009 Deena Katz	Cosby, Plato and You It has taken us the better part of 40 years to figure out that financial planning is a process, not a product.
Financial Advisor May 2011 Matt Greco	High Anxiety Rich and poor are worried about money. A group of financial planners and psychotherapists has formed to discuss issues of common interest.
Financial Planning July 1, 2013 Scott Wenger	FPA's Michael Branham: Succession on His Mind The FPA s president says advisors of all ages should be thinking about the next chapter of their careers.
National Defense July 2007 Manik K. Rath	Mergers, Acquisitions Call for Added Scrutiny When acquiring or merging with any government contractor, reviewing ethics policies, compliance programs, and all recent voluntary disclosures will provide a wealth of invaluable information.
Financial Planning October 1, 2012 Ann Marsh	Realms Of Influence: Financial Planning's Influencer Awards to Six Outstanding Advisors Financial Planning's annual Influencer Awards honor six individuals whose contributions are pushing the field to new heights.
National Defense August 2011 D'Agostino & Jack	New Rule Proposed For Organizational Conflicts of Interest On April 26, the government proposed major changes to rules concerning organizational conflicts of interest under the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
Financial Planning April 1, 2006 Michael E. Kitces	Partnership Problem In the financial planning profession, is the promise of a partnership the only way to adequately reward key employees?
The Motley Fool June 18, 2010 Mac Greer	Behavioral Economist Dan Ariely on Money, Motivation, and Kobe Bryant Big bonuses and big compensation continue to be a big part of the Wall Street culture. But is money an effective motivator?
Financial Planning October 1, 2005 Kathy Gevlin	Adviser Pulse Other sectors of the economy may be wallowing in the doldrums with stagnant wages and job uncertainty, but not financial planning. Planners are earning more than ever and are deeply satisfied with their careers.
National Defense February 2010 Sean M. Connolly	New Personal Conflicts of Interest Rules Proposed Federal Acquisition Regulations call for contractors to police their employees' personal conflicts of interest or face serious disciplinary action.
Financial Planning October 1, 2013 Bob Veres	Wish List: 27 Changes That Would Help Advisors In which we make a few modest requests for the health of the profession as well as the financial services industry.
Financial Planning November 1, 2011 Miriam Rozen	Surviving Sanctions Financial planners often make the mistake of focusing exclusively on marketing and execution of clients' plans, but overlook their own industry's self-regulatory requirements.
Financial Advisor June 2009 Roy Diliberto	Sharing The Wealth The key to growth and firm longevity is offering ownership opportunities to valuable employees.
Financial Planning November 1, 2008 Ingrid Case	Take It Off As former Wall Street institutions lie in ruins, experts are predicting that the forces that brought them down -- and changes that these downfalls may unleash -- will make life far different for financial advisors in the not-so-distant future.
Investment Advisor June 2010 James J. Green	FPA, Coalition for Financial Planning Remain Upbeat Despite uncertainty over fiduciary standard, optimism reigns within planner groups.
Financial Planning May 1, 2012 Scott Wenger	New World, Be Brave Many investors with the means to buy low have been reaping gains. And there are new opportunities in real estate now for planners and investors with a discriminating eye.