The term “financial planner” is used by many financial professionals. You should ask any planner what qualifies him or her to offer financial planning advice.
A CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ must have passed a rigorous CFP certification process that includes significant education and experience requirements, as well as pass a comprehensive exam that tests their personal financial planning knowledge and skills.
Additionally, CFP registrants must meet regular continuing education requirements (30 hours/2 years) and ethics requirements. You may visit www.CFP-Board.org to check whether your financial planner is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™.
Every employee of Trilogy Wealth Advisors and Cambridge Investment Research, Inc. who has access to customer funds has been fingerprinted and had a complete FBI background check, per industry regulations. Every time a change in your client data (for example: address, investment objective, occupation) is made, this change should be reported to your financial advisor for documentation. This change will generate a regulatory-required letter stating that the change has been made to your account. This helps protect you in two ways: in the event of unauthorized changes to your client account, you will receive written notice to alert you, and if a key-stroke error or typo has created an input error, you will also have the opportunity to correct your account. If no such changes occur, you will receive a letter every 3 years just to verify that the information on file is still accurate.

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