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How to Choose Financial Professionals

Audience: Recommended for those who would like greater knowledge and ability to make more informed decisions when choosing financial professionals
Length: 2 hours
Materials: Each participant will receive a 50-plus page workbook, which reviews each topic covered and provides a resource guide and glossary for future use

 

Course Description:

Participants who attend this course will gain important skills to better screen and select financial advisers/planners, portfolio managers, brokers and brokerage firms, tax professionals, attorneys, and insurance agents.

Course Objectives:

  • Learn the essential questions to ask before selecting a financial professional.
  • Identify the ways financial professionals get compensated.
  • Compare brokerage firms and other financial institutions.
  • Determine what level of service is needed.
  • Learn how to uncover red flags when choosing financial professionals.
  • Be better able to protect against investment fraud.
  • Define four crucial client rights in arbitration.
  • Discuss the meaning and requirements for various professional credentials.
  • Learn how to negotiate lower fees and trading costs.
  • Organize and prepare financial information to save time and money.
  • Discover how to perform thorough background checks.
  • Review the governing organizations regulating financial professionals.

 

 

 

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