How to Find the Right Financial Adviser
If you’re looking for an adviser, here’s what you need to know about assessing their fees and finding the right financial advisor whose services fit your needs.
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5 Smart Financial Steps to Take During Summer as seen in U.S. News and World Report
If you find yourself indoors on a hot and humid afternoon, there are several little financial tasks that are worth completing. Here are five personal finance tasks that you should consider tackling in the heat of the summer.
5 Ways to Boost Your Financial Confidence by Calvin Geotz
To feel more confident in these, and other, financial choices, it's often recommended that you seek the advice of a financial advisor. A recent study by Fidelity Investments discovered that working with a financial advisor can add up to 4% higher investment returns. And a study by Vanguard estimated that the quantitative value of a financial advisor is about 3% on a net basis (4% minus 1% fee)
How to Choose a Financial Adviser: 6 Tips for Finding the Right One
If you’re not an expert in money matters, hiring a financial adviser to manage your money life can be a tough decision. It’s almost impossible to know every financial arena well, because they can be so specialized. Estate planning is completely different from picking the right investments, for example. Managing a portfolio is different from crafting a monthly budget.
6 Pros and Cons of Choosing a Fee-Only Financial Advisor as seen in US News and World Report
Fee-only financial planners come with certain advantages and disadvantages that investors should consider.
How to choose a financial advisor: 6 tips for finding the right one
“Ultimately, you need to feel confident in the advisor’s competency, objectivity, and responsiveness to your needs,” says Van Sant. “The advisor-client relationship, like many relationships, is built on trust and communication, so doing the proper due diligence in choosing an advisor should provide long-term benefits and peace of mind for all parties.”
How to Find a Financial Adviser
……And while we’re on the topic of ethics: Fiduciaries are required by law to put your interests before their own. In addition to that, a subset of fiduciary firms are fee-only, which means they don’t sell any products or services beyond their relationship with you and act as a fiduciary in all parts of their business. The word fiduciary gets used incorrectly all the time, but a true fiduciary has very few conflicts of interest, with all decisions made in the client’s best interest. For me, these two criteria – being a CFP and a fiduciary – should be non-negotiable when choosing an adviser…………
How to Find a Fee-only Financial Advisor – And Why It Matters
….I recommend that you limit your search to fee-only financial advisors. They are more likely to put your financial interests ahead of their own since they don’t earn commissions from selling you products and services….