I have found that people in search
of an advisor often call an «expert» they heard on a local radio program.
Not exact matches
When building a company you are
often blind to competition and other risks, rely on trusted
advisors and members
of your company to help you identify these potential gaps.
In my role as
advisor to small businesses, I
often hear first - hand the challenges and failures
of retail store owners who fear the advantages
of online and feel the exodus to Internet eCommerce, led by Amazon and Ebay.
It's not easy being an owner and you can
often feel as if you are going it alone, so the support
of your family and a trusted group
of friends and
advisors is invaluable.
Those
advisors who are transparent about their compensation
often suffer because
of it.
«Not only are they going to help you with the experiences they have learned, but they
often serve as a board
of advisors and your initial source
of capital.»
In cases where people have been taken advantage
of by an
advisor, they are embarrassed and
often in denial.
Financial
advisor Carolyn McClanahan, director
of financial planning at Life Planning Partners in Jacksonville, Florida, said the clients who say they don't want to retire
often don't want to rein in their spending.
According to Jennifer East, founder
of Onida Family
Advisors, which
often works with family offices to help ease tricky discussions about money, this group is better off engaging a multi-family office, because «the cost
of having [a full] staff alone just doesn't make sense.»
Yet, I
often find myself playing the role
of therapist as well as that
of financial
advisor.
Many
of these
advisors are
often busy, hard to reach and honestly not very interested in you.
You'd think that high - profile individuals with substantial and varied assets,
often - complex family lives and a team
of high - powered
advisors at their disposal would have this locked down, more so than your average American.
Business sellers and their
advisors will
often «recast» the earnings to show the earning power
of the business.
As a result, robo
advisors have typically targeted this segment because millennial investors want to save money and
often don't have enough wealth to warrant the attention and interest
of a human
advisor.
Unlike the traditional wealth management industry with minimums ranging from $ 250,000 at Chase to $ 5,000,000 at Goldman Sachs, robo
advisors require extremely low account minimums to take advantage
of their services —
often running as low as $ 500 for the likes
of Wealthfront and Betterment.
«Academic research has clearly established that conflicts
of interest affect financial
advisors» behavior and that
advisors often act opportunistically to the detriment
of their clients,» the memo says.
Due in part to a growing lack
of faith in traditional financial advising brought about by this trend, more and more investors are switching to low - cost passive online
advisors (
often called robo -
advisors) who exclusively or almost exclusively invest clients» capital into index - tracking funds, the thought being that if they can not beat the market they may as well join it.
Ironically, this advice can
often make overpriced fund selection more likely because most financial
advisors aren't subject to a fiduciary standard
of care today.
The main culprit
of these costs, they argue, arise from the incentives financial
advisors are given that «encourage savers to move from low - cost employer plans to
often higher fee IRA accounts, and from incentives to steer savers into higher cost products within the IRA market.»
«American investors pay staggering sums annually to
advisors,
often incurring several layers
of consequential costs,» Buffett wrote.
Headlines
often announce the departure
of large
advisors with hundreds
of millions
of dollars under management from one wirehouse to another or from one wirehouse to an IBD.
Self - aware, first - time entrepreneurs
often identify lack
of experience as a dominant cause
of failure, and
often aspire to create a team
of advisors to share their unique perspectives, industry knowledge and wealth
of experience.
Mar 22, 2018 When you place your investments in the care
of an investment manager or
advisor, you'll
often run into various fees.
Helping a first - time CEO understand the difference between an occasional
advisor, an advisory board member and a board
of directors» member
often falls to a trusted angel investor.
Winston Churchill refused to listen to wealth
advisors» advice and
often acted contrary to what they suggested, according to David Lough, a private banker
of long standing who has recently published a book entitled No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money.
Lawrence Roulston, managing director
of WestBay Capital
Advisors, discusses the mineral - rich, but
often overlooked, main island
of Fiji, part
of the South Pacific Ring
of Fire, and several miners active there.
When I see things like this I think
of Nick Murray who
often says «That's why god sent
advisors.»
«That's a surprising average premium, compared to the $ 100,000 premium that
often shows up on to single premium income annuity (SPIA) applications that
advisors actually submit to annuity carriers,» says Gary Baker, president
of CANNEX (U.S.), which runs the database.
Often, I will suggest to couples or individuals that they might want to enlist a «hope circle» — a group
of trusted
advisors that can learn
of the pregnancy from the early stages so they can assist with the hand - holding and anxiety as well as hold the joy and hope
of what might become.
«During the most intimate time
of their life, women need support beyond what their doctors, and
often their husbands, can offer during labor and delivery,» says Leslie Ludka, M.S.N., senior technical
advisor at the American College
of Nurse - Midwives and a certified nurse - midwife who has attended the births
of nearly 4,000 babies.
For the monitorship
of SAC Capital
Advisors, which had reached an insider trading settlement in 2014, Schwartz was chosen by the company itself, and approved by an anonymous panel
of federal prosecutors, who
often do not disclose the names
of those picked, he wrote.
On the Conservative side, insiders who are
often in the media include George Osborne's former chief
of staff Matt Hancock, (
often on the airways attacking Labour's fiscal record), Cameron's former press secretary George Eustice (who played a key role in the no to AV campaign) Claire Perry (a former member
of Team Osborne) Charlotte Leslie (a former Willetts
advisor) and key Cameron ally Nick Boles.
However, even though it can raise the stipends for National Research Service Awards, which are given to individual postdocs, the agency does not have complete control over the salaries
of postdocs who are paid directly from their
advisor's grants — that is
often up to the
advisor.
«People
often train themselves to be clones
of their
advisor or another scientist.
I've slowly gotten into the groove
of being a full - time research assistant: 60 - plus hours a week labside, no classes, no teaching assistantships, just Jeff (the
advisor) popping in a little too
often for my taste asking, «How's it going?»
The subject
of career development, which includes choosing
advisors and mentors, is
often left to one's own devices — and a good dose
of luck — especially in academia.
Rather than presenting, as some
advisors do, an overly narrow, self - reflective vision
of how a science lab ought to be run, she offers an abundance
of diverse observations from recently published sources, as well as unattributed (and
often conflicting) quotations from personal interviews, to assist young researchers in charting a personal course through science.
Being a client
advisor at It's Just Lunch, I share this piece
of advice
often.
Her running mate John McCain (Ed Harris) may admire Palin's galvanizing speeches, but ignorant
of even basic geography she
often flops, causing McCain's foul - mouthed
advisor Steve Schmidt (Woody Harrelson) much grief.
And then a reliably similar sequence
of events: the raucous and
often hilarious
advisor meetings, the intimate and sometimes devastating sessions with the Fellows, the popcorn screenings and Owl bar night crawls that conjoin us not just as colleagues, but as people — these are the pieces that make the whole.
They have a copy
of several papers someone has written; they have spoken with a candidate's
advisors, whom they
often know personally; they invite the candidate to campus for a full day
of interviews.
Preserving the priceless moments and toothless smiles
of young children, who
often won't recall much
of what occurs in their early years, is the admirable goal
of the hardworking
advisors, parents, and students who make these yearbooks a reality.
I have
often joked that I feel a bit like Harry Potter in that sometime during the early part
of my career here, my
advisor, Dean McCartney said to me «You're an educator, Kristen,» (just as Hagrid said to Harry, «You're a wizard, Harry») and from that time forward I have been learning how to improve the educational experiences
of young children.
The financial
advisor and bond counsel leeches that suck the blood out
of the school and college district taxpayers with their exorbitant fees,
often illegally commingled with campaign services, are the ones that will be hit hardest.
The adults in their communities
often lack experience with highly selective colleges, and few
of their teachers and
advisors take the trouble to supply the students with information about the opportunities that such institutions afford them or the feasibility
of gaining admission and financial aid.
The experienced traders with elaborate accounts
often use the services
of an
advisor, who improves their planning.
The work
of finding a strategy and, more importantly, tracking results is
often facilitated by financial
advisor software.
That's why they are
often recommend by insurance
advisors, who are
often not licensed to sell other types
of investments.
Financial
advisors and consumer advocates
often recommend a lower number that takes other factors into account, such as retirement savings, entertainment expenses, and overall quality
of life.
Our financial affairs are
often put together in a reactionary, piecemeal fashion over a period
of time, perhaps based on what we hear recommended by an
advisor or guru, by what we read as the tip du jour by a popular money magazine or by what all our friends or colleagues are doing.