Just 5 ETFs and You're Set? Buy-n-Hold Silliness Still Carries On [View article]
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...
Just 5 ETFs and You're Set? Buy-n-Hold Silliness Still Carries On [View 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...