Howard S. Gartenhaus has been Admitted to the Paladin Registry

The Paladin Registry is a new, independent, online service that documents and validates the credentials of high-quality financial professionals. Admittance is limited only to advisors who rank in the top 10% of their profession. Investors use the service to find, evaluate, and select advisors who have the knowledge and ethics to help them achieve their financial goals.

“The Paladin Registry is an excellent new service for investors seeking a quality advisor,” says Howard S. Gartenhaus, a Rockville, Maryland based financial advisor with over 17 years experience in the field. “They provide an independent, objective third party analysis of investment advisors for the public. I believe investors will eagerly embrace this system because it is easy to use, protects investor confidentiality and provides an objective benchmark from which to rate financial advisors. I’m pleased to have passed Paladin’s rigorous tests for competency, integrity, licensing and compensation.”

The Paladin Registry provides:

• High admittance standards that protect investors from bad advisors.
• A quality rating for each advisor that validates competence, integrity and risk of bad advice.
• Online access to documentation for professional credentials.
• Full disclosure for compliance records, compensation, investment expenses, and potential conflicts of interest.
• Advisor agreements that put investor interests first.
• Protection of investor identities until there’s a reason to be visible.

“The Registry solves some major problems for millions of investors,” said Jack Waymire, Paladin founder and author of “Who’s Watching Your Money? The 17 Paladin Principles for Selecting a Financial Advisor.” “Financial advisors don’t provide track records, the way money managers do, so the only reliable method for determining their competence and integrity is credentials. In the past, advisors have used sales skills to win relationships with investors. And, their largely verbal sales presentations were so different, it was close to impossible for investors to compare them to each other and select the best professionals. Consequently, they were prone to pick advisors with the best sales skills versus real experts. This dysfunctional selection process explains why millions of investors fire current advisors and hire new ones every few years – a very costly result.”


About Paladin Registry
Paladin is an independent, information services company that educates investors about advisors, documents the credentials of select financial professionals who provide wealth management services, validates the documentation with ratings, and provides investors with a free service for finding, screening, evaluating, and selecting the advisors. Visit Paladin’s website at www.paladinregistry.com for additional information about its services.


About Gartenhaus Financial Corporation
Founded in 1990, Gartenhaus Financial Corp. (www.gartenhaus.com) works to help clients grow and preserve assets, increase income and reduce taxes. As an independent fee-based financial advisor, founder Howard S. Gartenhaus has developed customized solutions for hundreds of retirees and pre-retirees throughout the nation. His services include investment management, retirement planning, business retirement plans, “low-stress” investments, estate planning, insurance and college funding. Mr. Gartenhaus has been widely quoted in the national media, including Financial News Network, Better Homes & Gardens’ Family Money magazine, the Personal Finance newsletter and Mutual Funds magazine — which heralded him as one of the country’s top 100 mutual fund experts.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT PALADIN, CONTACT:
Mike Szimanski
202.558.8005
mike@buzzroad.com
www.buzzroad.com


FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HOWARD GARTENHAUS, CONTACT:
Gartenhaus Financial
301-670-5505
howard@gartenhaus.com
www.gartenhaus.com

Benjamin Auman
BuzzRoad Communications
240-383-6296
ben@buzzroad.com
www.buzzroad.com