Help choosing a financial planner!!

[quietman]

You are far better off if you can do it yourself.

All the fuss about designations is pointless. CFP takes a bit of study, but planners with a CFP can be just as bad as those with any other designation. It's almost impossible to align the planner's self interest with the self interest of you as client, so there's always risk if you don't know what you are doing that the planner will either take advantage or make bad recommendations.

There are exceptions. There are a few good planners. It's almost impossible for you as a potential client to find them. Sorry. Not much help.

 

[freebird5825]

Those large mainframe computers (often IBM) that took up whole rooms/buildings:

wow, that's a memory lane indeed. check out the old teletype printer. woohoooo. i used them too.

are you the one in the white shirt or the blue shirt? LOL