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🗓️ 29 September 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jill on Money Podcast. It is Tuesday, September 29th. The month of September |
0:10.5 | just blew by. Talk about a blur. Whoof. It's nuts. All right, so here we go. We're about to |
0:17.4 | embark on the end of the month ritual of everyone's going to get statements, month to date, you're going to get all nuts, don't worry about it, okay? |
0:26.9 | Everyone calm down. |
0:27.9 | Your long-term investors, your long-term about your life, let's get your financial life in order. Let's try to answer your |
0:34.8 | question so you don't drive yourselves crazy or maybe even your family members |
0:38.3 | crazy. All you need to do is to send us an email. Ask Jill on Money.com. |
0:45.8 | That's Ask Jill at Jill on Money. |
0:50.5 | Okay, this is from Heather who wants to know the difference between a financial planner and a fiduciary. |
0:57.0 | Now here's what she writes. |
0:58.0 | I understand that a financial planner receives kickbacks from funds or insurance products as well as a management fee. |
1:06.4 | While with a fiduciary we have to hire someone pay an upfront fee and then we get inside into additional fees. Okay, hold on. A financial |
1:17.8 | planner is somebody who is supposedly trying to do comprehensive financial planning for you. |
1:25.8 | All right? Now, financial planners can be fiduciaries. A fiduciary means that that person has to put your best interest before her own interest or her company's interest. |
1:40.0 | Okay? Now, what you're describing is kind of a difference of fee structures which doesn't |
1:45.5 | necessarily mean that somebody is a fiduciary or not so let me give an example |
1:51.1 | there are some fiduciaries that will not take commissions at all. |
1:56.0 | There are other fiduciaries who say, well, in certain cases, maybe paying a commission is actually a better thing for you. |
2:03.4 | So it's important to understand |
2:05.4 | that there's a distinction. |
2:06.8 | A financial planner big picture category |
2:09.2 | is, hey, we do like your macro stuff, |
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