Wednesday, November 5, 2008

It Was an Historic Election - Now Let's Get Back to Work!

These days in the investment markets are flat out challenging.
You need to have solid financial advice to give you a fighting chance.
We are meeting with clients every day who are seeking a "second opinion".
These folks just aren't sure their current advisor is giving them what they need.
Here's a list of seven traits you should be seeing in your financial advisor:

Trust - if you're not sure, that's not good
Concern - do they listen to you?
Communication - are they available and responsive?
Understandable - jargon or English?
Experienced - let someone else break in the new kid (no matter how old "new" is)
Team Player - a 'jack of all trades' is flat out dangerous
Leadership - are they confident and inspiring or arrogant and lost?

How does your advisor stack up?
Not so good?
Let us know and we'll get you a good referral.

The election's over - let's get back to work.