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The last 2 weeks, I’ve been talking about “account minimums” in the financial services industry. 8/8/22 – Minimums Are Necessary, But I Don’t Like Them 8/15/22 – No Account Minimum (Part 1): Education for Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Financial Planning These issues of “account minimums” and who has access to advice have been on my mind for …
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Last week I talked about account minimums in financial services. My stated concern was that 80-85% of the US population doesn’t have enough assets to qualify for most advisors’ $500,000 minimum. They either do it themselves or work with commissioned sales people. They don’t have access to independent, objective advice from a qualified fiduciary to …
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Clearly, there is a very low bar to shop at the local drugstore. If you are wearing a shirt and shoes (pants, I guess, are presumed), you can be a customer. Tellers can handle 20 customers (or more) in an hour without knowing anything about each customer. Professional service firms routinely spend multiple or even …
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There is a lot of negative news out there right now. Inflation is the worst it has been in 4 decades, there may be a recession around the corner (we may just be waiting for the National Bureau of Economic Research to verify what the 2 quarters of negative GDP has already told us), supply …
Fair enough. Personal finance is an enormous topic. Let me see if I can make it a little bit easier with an overview of our financial education courses. Because our educational system teaches next to nothing practical about personal finance, there are usually two ways people come to the idea of personal financial education. Either …
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