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Hiring a financial advisor

The “Risk Disconnect:” How Investors and Financial Advisors sometimes talk past each other.

Posted by Tom on Sep 23, 2015
We recently wrote about a benign self-delusion as it relates to investment decision making. We were talking about the illusion of control. You want to see illusions play out? Look at the average person’s, (even the average professional..
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Why use a Personal Investment Policy Statement?

Posted by Tom on Jan 08, 2015
The financial services industry spends lots of time talking about the personal financial plan, and how everybody should have one. They spend far less time on the other document widely recommended by financial pros, the “personal investment..
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Improving online financial security with low-tech password management--part 3

Posted by Tom on Dec 16, 2014
Okay, given that we are on a little low-tech password management campaign here, I am going to offer a variant that might be useful to add security to any of the previous methods discussed. This post builds on any of the systems we already..
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Barter--a financial consultant weighs in on an ancient system of trade

Posted by Tom on Dec 09, 2014
There are many old ideas getting recycled these days, and we are going to be writing about a lot of them here, as we look at them from a financial planning perspective. Some of them have definite financial planning benefits, and others..
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Choosing a Financial Advisor Interview Questionnaire

Posted by Tom on Nov 29, 2014
In support of the whitepaper... NOTE: The purpose of this interview is to examine two things — First, whether the advisor is an appropriate match and second, to evaluate the advisor’s degree of candor. Look for signs of evasion, and..
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