Do You Need A Financial Advisor? (You Might Be Surprised!)
Money Guy Show
Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a good one that we can be unbiased on. |
| 0:09.6 | Ethan says, hey, what are some signs that you need a financial advisor? |
| 0:14.2 | Is there a difference between a financial planner and a financial advisor? |
| 0:19.5 | Let me just start this one off for a moment. |
| 0:21.4 | I'll mention the second part. |
| 0:23.5 | One of the things that I think is, by the way, for those of you who are just now listening |
| 0:27.5 | to us for the first time, we are financial advisor. |
| 0:29.9 | So let me go and put that out there and financial planche. |
| 0:34.1 | The problem with our industry is that really anybody can call themselves anything, right? |
| 0:38.6 | Somebody can call themselves a financial coach, a financial advisor, a financial planner, |
| 0:42.8 | a financial consultant, a financial intermediary, fill in the blanks. |
| 0:47.6 | So I think just operating by title alone won't give you enough information. |
| 0:52.7 | What you really need to do is understand what that person does. |
| 0:58.2 | Are they someone who only sells certain types of products? |
| 1:01.3 | Are they someone who actually does financial planning? |
| 1:04.1 | Are they someone who only focuses on retirement plans? |
| 1:06.8 | Are they someone who just does taxes? |
| 1:09.2 | You need to understand, okay, what does the person do and what is the thing that I'm looking |
| 1:15.1 | for? |
| 1:16.1 | So that goes right into Ethan's question. |
| 1:17.7 | What are some of the signs that I might be at the place where I need to speak with someone |
| 1:21.4 | about having more finances? |
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