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Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don't Trust, Verify

Talking Real Money - Investing Talk

Don McDonald

Education, Business, Investing, How To

4.5811 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode: 0:04 The Trust Issue 2:43 Custodians and Fiduciaries 3:12 Finding True Fiduciary Help 3:53 Fee-Only vs Fee-Based 5:43 Various Compensation Models 8:02 Understanding Terminology 10:52 Brokercheck.org Exploration 12:08 Where to Find Trusted Advisors 13:56 Vetting Financial Advisors 15:38 Insurance Companies and Investments 19:30 Dealing with Large Stock Gains 23:13 Dealing with Tax Implica...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Reality Radio for a really great future.

0:08.0

We're talking real money.

0:10.6

Who can you trust?

0:12.1

I mean, really, who can you trust when it comes to managing your money?

0:18.6

We have tried to help you find people that you should be able to trust

0:27.2

for various reasons, their philosophy, their reputation, whatever it might be. But something's come up.

0:38.9

We need to talk.

0:40.7

That's why we do this thing called talking real money.

0:44.3

Hi, everybody.

0:45.0

I'm Don McDonald's.

0:47.0

Joining me, because I can't get rid of him, is Tom Cock.

0:50.9

You're too far away to really do any damage.

0:52.8

Every time I do it, every time I do a podcast, there is. So it's right there. She keeps showing up. You just keep showing up. It's right there. There is again. Look, there is. I'm in Florida, though. He's in Bellevue, Washington, and you are wherever the heck you are. And we're glad you are wherever the heck you are.

1:12.6

So what am I talking about, trustworthiness?

1:16.3

Well, we tend to, we tend to say, okay,

1:21.0

you want to work with somebody.

1:23.1

We think you can probably reasonably trust Vanguard to treat you properly,

1:32.6

Schwab to treat you properly,

1:34.7

Fidelity to treat you properly.

1:36.8

And then from there, it gets more difficult to find people who are big,

1:41.7

who hold themselves out as fiduciaries as people who are really looking

1:49.7

out for you. Well, now comes this disappointment. A fidelity broker, which is bad that they

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