Recently, the financial media recently has been focusing more attention on the online tools clients can use to conduct background checks on financial professionals.

The catalyst was a November 8 confessional in the New York Times by financial advisor Carl Richards of Park City, Utah, describing his own bankruptcy.

Bloomberg columnist Susan Antilla followed with a report describing the online tools consumers can use to do quick background checks on advisors:

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