Are you Being Too Cheap in Retirement?
Retirement is a time to relax and enjoy the fruits of your labor. But how do you know if you’re being too cheap and missing out on all the fun? […]
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Fees
How Financial Advisors Make Money
Ever wondered how much your financial advisor is really pocketing from your retirement nest egg? Are you suspicious of those fees they’re charging? Let’s dive deep into the murky waters
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Retirement Guilt: We Hesitate to Spend, Yet Overlook Advisor Fees
All our working lives, we dream of what we’ll do with the money we’ve saved and the newfound free time we’ve earned. Yet, upon reaching retirement, those dreams are sometimes
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Why Do Most Advisors Still Base Their Fees on How Much Money You Have?
Recently, a publication targeted toward financial advisors published an article wondering if advisor fees based on assets under management (AUM) would soon be extinct. In just two sentences, this quote
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When Mutual Funds Aren’t Mutually Beneficial
“Set it and forget it,” is the financial industry’s refrain for retirement success; as in, invest in mutual funds, don’t touch the money, and let the magic of compound interest
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That Edward Jones is Up to No Good
Maybe You Shouldn’t Hang Out with Eddie In this adaptation from Golden Reserve Founder Greg Aler’s new book, Fire Your Financial Advisor, we examine the villainous role Edward Jones has played
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Why Do People Hate Annuities?
Poll your friends and family about annuities and you’re bound to get a lot of adverse reactions. They’ll likely cite at least one of these three things : While these
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Are Commissions Bad?
Let’s talk about commissions. For many professions—like real estate agents, sales professionals, brokers and artists—it’s a compensation structure to which we’ve become accustomed. They make money when you make a
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Heard the Slogan “We Do Better When You Do Better”? In Other Words, Your Advisor Does Well Even When You Don’t
We recently heard a large, national firm use the slogan, “We do better when you do better,” and we couldn’t help but scratch our heads. On the surface it may
Protecting Yourself from Fees: Why You Need a Fee Filter
No one likes extra fees, especially when they are hard to understand or being intentionally hidden. You know the ones: the stealthy “service fee,” the suspicious sounding “surcharge,” or the
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