New York Times –January 9, 2015
This New York Times article by highly regarded columnist Paul Sullivan, discusses how clients should evaluate their advisors. In it David Schneider points out that a client should hope for an advisor who is willing to stick his or her neck out disagree with them, when it is in the client’s best interest. In the article David says “You know you’re working with a good adviser if that adviser is willing to disagree with you — or at least explain why your thought process may not be the optimal way to think about something,” and “If the adviser is only recommending things that the client finds intuitively appealing, I don’t want to say that’s a red flag, but the adviser is appealing to that client’s biases.”
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