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Success Really Has Three C's At least 20% of the people who are presented with your fees should object or squirm; ideally the percentage should be even higher. Otherwise, you aren't charging enough, and the planning profession as a whole is being cheapened. |
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Are You Paying Your Pro the Wrong Way? How you pay for financial advice may matter more than how much you pay. |
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The Great Divide? An expectation gap between older and younger advisors might be hamstringing the profession's growth. |
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Problems Cited In Broker-Dealers' Variable Insurance Sales and More The newly released study comes as the NASD is proposing new rules governing the sale of deferred variable annuities... Board Of Standards Increases CFP Certification Fee... Technology Continues To Frustrate Advisors, FPA Study Says... etc. |
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Words of Wisdom Keeping older professionals in the industry should be a priority. And if we don't do something to rectify this situation sooner rather than later, we face the prospect of watching the experience of a whole generation literally walk out the door. |
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Frontline News Advisor news: Is Your Client's Private Info Secure?... Hybrid Brokerages Shine Light On New Space... CFP Aspirants Need A Plan... Wanted: Silver Bullet For Retirement Income... more... |
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Movers & Shakers 2007 These eight leaders are shaping the future of the financial planning industry. Ben Coombs, industry founder and founder of Petra Financial Advisors... Aaron Coates, partner, CIO, CCO, Compass Wealth Advisors... etc. |
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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. |
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Time Is Money When asked what their greatest challenge is, virtually all advisors say it's not product complexity -- or even the regulatory landscape -- that causes the most stress. It's lack of time. |
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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. |
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The Fiduciary Fracas Debate and controversy over the elusive standard could be just what the industry needs. |
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Making the Case for CFP Standards While the planning profession has evolved considerably, there is still work to be done. |
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Future Tense for Financial Advisors With fiduciary advisors taking market share from the brokerage firms, will FINRA exact payback? Here s a glimpse of what may come. |
