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February 20, 2018

What to look for when seeking financial advice

  • With key portions of a new fiduciary rule on hold, you're still on your own, but here are ways to know if an advisor is putting your needs first.
    • By LIZ WESTON
    NerdWallet

    Good financial advice can help you achieve your life goals. Bad financial advice can cost you a fortune and leave you worse off than if you had tried to go it alone.

    Unfortunately, you're still on your own in trying to determine the good advice from the bad. The U.S. Department of Labor has delayed key portions of a fiduciary rule that would require financial advisers to put their retirement account clients' interests first. The provisions are set to begin July 1, 2019, but it's anyone's guess if that will happen.


     
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