Financial Standard Comments - A sobering lesson from a social move gone wrong The sacking of a financial adviser after he posted anti-Semitic comments on Twitter shows how social media can make or break an adviser's reputation - and career. Here are some tips by one of Australia's top financial planners on social media. https://www.financialstandard.com.au/feed/latest?story=51072865 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 15:23:58 +1000 Thu, 02 Jul 2015 15:23:58 +1000 en-AU Copyright 2026 Financial Standard 5 Comment by Melinda Houghton (Houghton Strategic Solutions)

Social media did not make or break this particular adviser, it was his lack of judgement and common sense that did that.

Do we blame the equipment when the user brandishes it incorrectly?

Whether he had put that on social media, or just said it out loud, his opinion and lack of judgement would still have been the same.

Libertas terminated his AR status based on those factors, not because he used social media.

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