Gary Gordon

Just 5 ETFs and You're Set? Buy-n-Hold Silliness Still Carries On

This is not my disclosure... the folks at SA modified my disclosure from my site, www.ETFexpert.com. Belieeeeeeeeeeeeeeve me... I know exactly what I am.

Gary Gordon, MS, CFP is the owner of Pacific Park Financial, Inc., a Registered Investment Adviser with the SEC. Thanks for catching it... and I will let SA know.

In the meantime, here is my disclosure from www.ETFexpert.com:

Disclosure Statement: ETF Expert is a web log ("blog") that makes the world of ETFs easier to understand. Pacific Park Financial, Inc., a Registered Investment Adviser with the SEC, may hold positions in the ETFs, mutual funds and/or index funds mentioned above. Investors who are interested in money management services may visit the Pacific Park Financial, Inc. web site.

On Jun 23 10:07 AM Wildhawk wrote:

> Gary- not to get all technical on you, but you might want to change
> your disclosure statement at the bottom of the article.
>
> I can assure you that you are not a Registered Investment Adviser
> with the SEC, but that your firm may be. People are not Investment
> Advisers- firms are. You are an Investment Adviser Representative,
> a representative of your firm, which is an Investment Adviser, registered
> with the SEC. It's a nit, but it's the kind of nit that can get you
> fined by FINRA (if you are member of a B/D) or the SEC for false
> advertising. It's also the kind of thing that the CFP Board of Standards
> looks very unkindly at.
>
> Just a word of advice from a former industry guy who spent several
> years having to look at disclosures and the like...