We talk a lot about ways to save money at Financial Finesse. One of the easiest ways to do that is to avoid paying bank fees. After all, it doesn’t require you to give up your morning Starbucks or bring lunch to work. All you have to do is a little paperwork. Here are some options to consider: Continue reading “3 Places To Find Free Checking Accounts”
Investing and the financial world in general can be pretty confusing. There are a lot of terms you may not know and concepts you may not be familiar with. It can even start sounding like another language! Continue reading “The Gym Rat’s Guide to Investment Terms”
I recently had dinner with a friend of mine who just got a job working for an investment brokerage firm. Yes, that means she’s going to be one of those commissioned brokers that I’ve warned so much about. (If they work for a brokerage firm, they’re a broker even if they call themselves something else.) Ironically, she was looking for some advice from me in getting clients and building her business. Did I tell her to forget it and join a fee-only financial planning firm? No. In fact, there are some very good reasons why an investor could be better off with a broker than one of the many fee-only advisers she’s competing against: Continue reading “Should You Invest with a Commissioned Broker? Maybe”
