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Fiduciary Financial Advice

Is Your Financial Advisor a Fiduciary?

It’s not hard to find a financial advisor. Google will spit out results in your area that can make your head spin. The challenge is finding the right financial advisor, someone you can trust to provide honest advice and help you achieve your goals. Unfortunately, whether someone calls themselves a financial advisor, financial planner, wealth […]

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What Are the Ways a Financial Advisor Gets Paid?

Fee transparency has been a hot-button issue in the financial advising community over the past few years. High profile stories of unsavory compensation practices have appeared in national publications heralding extra scrutiny into just how financial advisors can be paid.

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Fee-Only Advisors & Incentives

Incentives are one of the most powerful economic forces in the world. It doesn’t matter what industry you’re looking at, you can typically draw a straight line between the incentives offered to an individual and the way they go about performing their job.