I haven’t checked in for a while. I’ve actually been talking with a number of Professional Financial advisors – trying to see if it is worth getting a check-up of where I am at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From a high level perspective, getting help makes sense to me. I would pay a golf instructor and I have paid for dance instruction, Karate, guitar, piano, etc. for my kids. Why not a bit for my own financial well-being?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The problem for me is the value. I have had proposals for a $1200 check-up and plan, a $6000 check-up and plan and a 1% per year Financial takeover (if you are paying attention, with a $1M portfolio that is $10k\/year).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I am still not sure on the value. As mentioned, I nibbled into AMZN and Google a few weeks ago with some call options. They are up like 25% since then. So, do I pay for someone to tell me that I shouldn’t buy derivatives or that I am not diversified enough? Or do I just continue to bank while the market has legs? And, the market still has some legs – which I will re-evaluate after earnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I haven’t checked in for a while. I’ve actually been talking with a number of Professional Financial advisors – trying to see if it is worth getting a check-up of where I am at. From a high level perspective, getting help makes sense to me. I would pay a golf instructor and I have paid… Continue reading It’s been a while … And I bought in…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}