In a post last week on A4A, I wrote about a scathing criticism of the CFP Board written by a blogger for The Wall Street Journal who is also a CFP licensee. Citing an incident in which he alleged that a CFP professional "double-dipped" by charging a client 5.29% in commissions and advice fees annually on assets in a variable annuity, WSJ blogger Allan Roth accused the CFP Board of giving little more than lip service in requiring CFPs to act in their clients’ best interests. In this guest post, the CFP Board responds.
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