Phillips has hired a team to produce videos — of Michelle Obama talking about health reform, of Presidential advisers answering policy questions — which are posted on the White House Web site, WhiteHouse.gov, and often made available to television.
Wolfe and her press adviser answer simultaneously and their response is confusing.
Condoleezza Rice, Mr. Bush's national security adviser, answered first.
Asked what surprised him most about Mr. Obama, Mr. Donilon, the national security adviser, answered immediately: "He's a president who is quite comfortable with the use of force on behalf of the United States".
Phillips (or on one occasion an adviser) answered each letter at length, with the exception of the last query, to which the EHRC chairman gave a succinct reply: "The answer to your question is no".
While there is nothing inherently wrong with moving to another firm to make more money — people in other industries change jobs for that reason all the time — clients would want their advisers to answer them honestly and to evaluate that answer.
Last fall, Absi was inducted into the Islamic State Shura Council, a group of advisers who answer directly to Baghdadi.
Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine and the National Association of Personal Financial Advisers are running two "Jump-Start Your Retirement Plan" days this month, providing financial advisers to answer your queries online, at no charge.
After announcing dismal earnings and layoffs on Thursday, John A. Thain, still new to his role as chairman and chief executive of Merrill Lynch, dialed onto a conference call with some of the bank's 16,660 financial advisers to answer tough questions.
