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Tag: Financial Advisor

CFP No Guarantee Financial Adviser Puts Your Interests First

Watch this video on YouTube One of the most important ways to find competent and trustworthy investment advisers is to be sure they owe you a fiduciary duty. This means the advisers’ legal and ethical responsibility is to act in your best interests, not their...

Important Questions Investors Fail to Ask

Watch this video on YouTube Last week I reported on the three top questions investors wanted answered when advisors recommended investments. The rankings came from a survey of investors, funded by Dimensional Fund Advisors, conducted in March 2014 by Advisor Impact. I...

Clarify Financial Planning Advice With Reflective Listening

Watch this video on YouTube Here’s a useful bit of advice I got from one of my staff members several years ago: “Rick, your clients don’t understand half as much about investing as you think they do.” She didn’t intend any disrespect to...

The Mirage of Unbiased Financial Advice

Watch this video on YouTube Is your financial advisor biased? To find out, just check two things: Is the advisor human? Is he or she breathing? If so, the advisor is biased. Even if someone created a supposedly objective robotic financial planner—let’s call it...

Give Sinking Financial Ship a Chance to Come Back Up

Watch this video on YouTube When should you abandon a sinking financial ship? Not merely because it’s being tossed by stormy seas. I was reminded of this at a recent gathering of financial advisors. One participant noted that five years ago he would have never...