A financial planner can be considered a bad advisor for a number of different reasons (a few listed below):
1) The advisor recommends Section 79 Plans as beneficial wealth building tools.
2) The advisor might work with a Broker Dealer (BD) who ties their hands and restricts the types of investments or products that can be offered to clients. Unfortunately, this is more the rule than the exception with financial planners. Many restricted advisors are not able to offer items like Retirement Life™ or certain guaranteed return (accumulation value)/guaranteed income for life products.
3) The only thing worse than having a BD restrict what an advisor can offer his/her clients is to not disclose this fact to the clients themselves. Lack of disclosure is a significant problem in the industry today. If you could purchase a product that had a 7% guaranteed rate of return on an accumulation value coupled with a guaranteed income for life, don’t you think a financial planner should disclose the fact that he/she is forbidden by his/her BD from offering it to all current and future clients? I think it should be disclosed and any advisor who doesn’t disclose his/her limitations is someone we would consider a bad advisor.
— Bad Financial Planner
ReplyDeleteA financial planner can be considered a bad advisor for a number of different reasons (a few listed below):
1) The advisor recommends Section 79 Plans as beneficial wealth building tools.
2) The advisor might work with a Broker Dealer (BD) who ties their hands and restricts the types of investments or products that can be offered to clients. Unfortunately, this is more the rule than the exception with financial planners. Many restricted advisors are not able to offer items like Retirement Life™ or certain guaranteed return (accumulation value)/guaranteed income for life products.
3) The only thing worse than having a BD restrict what an advisor can offer his/her clients is to not disclose this fact to the clients themselves. Lack of disclosure is a significant problem in the industry today. If you could purchase a product that had a 7% guaranteed rate of return on an accumulation value coupled with a guaranteed income for life, don’t you think a financial planner should disclose the fact that he/she is forbidden by his/her BD from offering it to all current and future clients? I think it should be disclosed and any advisor who doesn’t disclose his/her limitations is someone we would consider a bad advisor.