A rose by any other name may still be a rose, but is a financial advisor who calls herself a financial planner still a financial advisor? That's the real question. The difference between a ...

A fiduciary often applies to certain types of financial advisor relationships, but there can be many types of fiduciaries such as: What is a financial advisor? Financial advisors are professionals ...

A robo-advisor or online planning tool will cost less than a traditional, in-person planner. A financial planner is an expert, usually a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® (CFP), who helps you create a ...

Every advisor will have his or her own approach to investing, financial planning and other services. Clients are encouraged to approach a search for an advisor the way they would a search for a ...

Miranda Marquit, MBA, is a freelance contributor to Newsweek’s personal finance team. She has an M.A. in journalism from Syracuse University and has been writing and podcasting about money since ...

According to John Jones, investment advisor representative at Heritage Financial, people can often get too bogged down in the individual financial products they use to build wealth, like stocks ...

Why do people hire financial advisors? The answer to this question is that clients hire financial advisors for numerous reasons. Specifically, clients seem to assess the value of an advisor not ...