This is guest host Andrew Horowitz and today on Money Girl.

Some tips on how to find a good investment advisor ripped right out of chapter 9 of my book

The Disciplined Investor. This is such an important topic that I've decided to

split it up into two episodes.

Part one will cover advisor basics.

You know what you need to know.

And part two will provide tips to finding the best advisor to work with.

Protecting your assets from all the potential pitfalls can be a rather

trying matter. For many people, enjoying money is much more rewarding than constantly searching

for ways to improve the bottom line. For others, it may make better financial

or personal sense to focus daily attention on their career, retirement, or their

family and let a paid professional handle the kind of painstaking research it takes to maintain a profitable portfolio.

Fortunately, for the many people out there who do not like the idea of braving the waters alone,

there is an entire fleet of financial professionals willing to help.

The degree and quality of that advice varies greatly, and as this book has stressed again and

again, it is important to do your homework. Financial professionals come from many

different backgrounds, biases, skill sets, influences and experience. Therefore it is

imperative to assess the kind of investment strategies you are looking for as well as the kind of person you would like to work with.

As if you are looking to buy and test drive a car, it is critical that you take the time to size up the benefits and

drawbacks of dealing with a particular financial advisor. During your

evaluation there are few easily recognizable key indicators that the

disciplined investor must pay attention to.

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