professional competency

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Professional Service: There’s extra money in going the extra mile with your service

December 17, 2024

Often advisers forget how valuable the service bit is in their “professional service” business. Everyone has heard some story about how a business did well from going the extra mile for a customer…but rarely do…

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The 5 Levels Of Professional Competence

July 7, 2023

Professional competence is now a clearly demonstrable thing isn’t it? Or is it? Can an adviser be considered as having competence and incompetence simultaneously? I think so. Competence has been a primary focus of regulatory…

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The Financial Advice Profession: Are we there yet?

October 12, 2020

The incessant debate about whether financial advice can be called a profession or whether it is an “industry” keeps rolling along and mostly the debate is within the industry. Those who are not financial advisers…

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