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1069: Why I Dumped My Financial Advisor by Helene Massicotte of Free To Pursue on How to Lower Investing Expenses

Optimal Finance Daily - Financial Independence and Money Advice

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Investing, Self-improvement, Education, Business

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🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Helene Massicotte of Free To Pursue shares why she dumped her financial advisor. Episode 1069: Why I Dumped My Financial Advisor by Helene Massicotte of Free To Pursue on How to Lower Investing Expenses Helene Massicotte blogs about living life on your terms and experiencing true personal freedom. She describes herself as a person in search of all that life has to offer and who has built a life that enables her to do just that. No more, no less. She chose to retire from corporate life in her mid-thirties because it wasn't in line with what she wanted anymore. The original post is located here: http://www.freetopursue.com/blog/2016/6/27/why-i-dumped-my-financial-advisor Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and in The O.L.D. Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Alen Masseycotte of free to pursue.com and I'm Dan I'm your host and this is where I read

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Why I Dumped my Financial Advisor by Elaine Masikot of Free To Pursue.com.

1:14.1

I was with my broker for over a decade.

1:16.5

I trusted him because he was an old university friend and having worked with him on some business

1:20.8

school projects, I also knew he was very intelligent and personable.

1:24.9

And he was also up front about his compensation, and he didn't recommend anything he wouldn't

1:28.9

be confident investing in himself.

1:31.3

The advice was sound, and his fee of a thousand dollars per year felt fair, so I didn't see any need to make a change. Life was good.

1:39.0

Then he had the nerve to fall in love with an American woman, a love, which led him to move to the US.

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