Reasons Why Your Financial Advisor Would Dump You

A financial advisor gives clients advice and guidance on how to handle and manage their investments. This help can be invaluable when planning your estate or building wealth. You need an advisor whose financial philosophy aligns with yours so that you’re able to work well together but that’s no guarantee that here would be no disagreement and the like. Your financial advisor might decide to leave you for the following reasons:

#. You Don’t Partake in the Decision-Making Process.

Financial advisors are not there to assume total control over your finances. Working with a financial advisor involves telling him your financial goals and your strategies in the long-run. His job is to provide keen insight into maximizing your portfolio’s tax efficiency, saving up for your child’s college tuition and your job is to make decisions based on his recommendations. Not offering any input at all would frustrate him because if he chooses an investment for you that fail thereafter and you complain about it, he would decide that the fees he is earning from your account aren’t worth the trouble.

#. You Ask the Wrong Questions

Asking questions is necessary in order to come up with a good financial plan but asking to put a specific number on the profit an investment will generate is just foolhardy as that cannot be predicted. It is also wrong to question your advisor abut investments held by other clients as it violates confidentiality and can get them into trouble especially if they’re a fiduciary; possessing certain legal and ethical responsibilities to act in the best interests of their clients. Revealing a person’s financial details to a third party without his or her consent goes against the Investment Advisers Act of 1940

#. You’re too Needy

Financial advisors don’t attend to just one client but multiple of them who need assistance with managing their assets. An advisor would address your concerns and questions in a timely manner but he can’t be at your beck and call 24/7. Limit your queries to issues pertaining to your account alone and get your facts straight so you can communicate clearly what you need to know

#. Your Account Isn’t ’Generating Enough Revenue

The fees structure of a financial advisor would determine whether he would decide to keep you as a client. A fee-only advisor charges based on the services provided; an advisor who earns a commission is paid when he sells particular financial products. They may assess an hourly rate or a flat fee or may charge you a percentage of the assets they’re helping you to manage. If your advisor feels that the time and effort put into managing your account is not commensurate with the revenue generated by the account, he might drop you as a client. You can ask broad questions about his typical client, with no specifics, thus giving you an idea of the kind of assets he manages and whether the size of your portfolio is a good fit

Conclusion
Getting dumped by your financial advisor can be quite stressful but at the same time, eye-opening. If your advisor gives you the axe, find a new advisor who is more in tune with you present financial status.