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Financial advisor is telling me to pause Roth payments over canceling whole life policy

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Financial advisor is telling me to pause Roth payments over canceling whole life policy Title is the situation. I have worked with this guy for a few years and recently he got me to invest in a whole life account. However after a home purchase my monthly expenses have gone up and I need to make some decisions to lower my monthly expenses. When I brought this up I got push back in several emails, with the most recent telling me the …

Reddit Personal Finance 193 2023-08-04

How much money should I have before I go to a financial advisor?

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How much money should I have before I go to a financial advisor? So I just managed to save up $10k in savings and I want to do something with that money. I want to be smart and make the money work for me by reinvesting and careful financial planning for the future. I rather have a professional help me with this process and after doing some research it was recommended to look into a fee-only financial advisor….

Reddit Personal Finance 156 2023-08-03

I’ve had the same financial advisor for years and I want to make sure he’s doing the best for me

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I’ve had the same financial advisor for years and I want to make sure he’s doing the best for me I’ve had the same financial advisor for over 10 years. I have a Roth and trad IRA, mutual funds, and an UGMA and 529 for my kid. I think he’s doing a good job but I have no idea and I’d like some kind of way to check my progress and get a second opinion but I don’t know how. I inherited him, I’m not even sure how one finds a financial advisor in…

Reddit Personal Finance 246 2023-07-31

Is nearly 5.8% too high for Financial Advisor commission fees?

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Is nearly 5.8% too high for Financial Advisor commission fees? I have a financial advisor via my bank. They charge about a 5.8% fee (rounded up) every time I make a deposit into either my IRA (invested) or my non retirement investment account. So if I deposit into both, both get hit with the fee. The fee is dispersed, some goes to fidelity and some goes to my bank. I deposit about 2k a month, so I’m hit w…

Reddit Personal Finance 253 2023-07-30

Going against advisor’s advice. If I dont get this IUL, what should I do instead?

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Going against advisor’s advice. If I dont get this IUL, what should I do instead? Very short story: I am a female in my 30s who knew nothing about finance until a few months ago. I hired a financial advisor to help me plan for retirement. I thought I did well after all the research I did– I chose a reputable firm, the advisor is a fiduciary, and only works off of an annual fee and not commissions. I make >150k and cant contr…

Reddit Personal Finance 167 2023-07-29

Ameriprise financial advisor/planner fee fair?

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Ameriprise financial advisor/planner fee fair? Hi everyone! A family member of mine has an advisor with Ameriprise. Said advisor is charging $1K per year. She is managing about 70K. Is that fair? From my experience, industry standard can be about 0.5% – 1.0%. What should I do to help? Thanks in advance! submitted by /u/AreWeThereYeti007

Reddit Personal Finance 249 2023-07-18

Questions to ask employer-provided financial advisor

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Questions to ask employer-provided financial advisor As part of my benefits, I have access to a financial advisor, who I have my first meeting with tomorrow. They’re a CLU, ChFC and the job title in their email signature is “Financial Services Representative.” I’m a pretty classic case of a millennial who has been underemployed and paycheck-to-paycheck for the past decade, so I’ve never really tho…

Reddit Personal Finance 181 2023-07-12

Analysing a financial advisor portfolio proposition, and it’s so bad I am doubting my maths

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Analysing a financial advisor portfolio proposition, and it’s so bad I am doubting my maths I have quite a problem, I started to analyse a fund portfolio that a friend got from a financial advisor and I am starting to doubt my skill because the net average return p.a. is under anything I expected, like around 2%. Since I had difficulties finding the real return, I took the NAV at the end of each year and calculating the YoY performance…

Reddit Personal Finance 186 2023-07-09