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Whether a CFP® professional (“Respondent”) violated CFP Board’s Standards of Professional Conduct when he: 1) violated his firm’s policy by twice failing to report outside business activities and obtaining the firm’s approval to engage in such activities; and 2) failed to clearly identify the assets over which he was to exercise investment discretion and exercised discretion in the client’s accounts on approximately 10 occasions without written discretionary authorization from the client.