Posted by on Dec 30, 2019 in Articles & Advice, Blog, Featured |

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Dec. 17, 2019 | 6:41 pm ET

By Jason Zweig and Andrea Fuller

The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. on Tuesday announced new measures to tighten its oversight of more than 85,000 stockbrokers, insurance agents and other financial advisers.

The action followed a Wall Street Journal article that found that thousands of advisers with the coveted Certified Financial Planner designation listed in the group’s public directory as having clean records had histories of customer complaints, bankruptcies, regulatory problems or criminal records….

 

To read the rest of the article:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cfp-board-to-tighten-oversight-of-financial-advisers-11576626090

 

For further reading:

Books:


Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor

Jason Zweig, The Devil’s Financial Dictionary

Jason Zweig, Your Money and Your Brain

Jason Zweig, The Little Book of Safe Money


Articles and other research:

Looking for a Financial Planner? The Go-To Website Often Omits Red Flags

CFP Board Upgrades Its Scrutiny of Financial Planners

Investors Need This Cop to Toughen Up

When Your Financial Planner Doesn’t Tell All

‘Fee-Only’ Financial Advisers Who Don’t Charge Fees Alone

On Fiduciary Duty