supernova72
Recycles dryer sheets
Hi, I only have a few posts so far so please be easy on me
I'm 52 ish and for the mega corp I work at has an out at 55 for "early retirement" without much impact to pension. Lots of folks I work with at my company who have recently retired have referred me to a local Seattle WA FN advisor. Hope it's OK to attach below because I did
Paul Ried.Financial Group, LLC: Financial planning, investment management
This guy is full service. The first 30 minute telecon was free. If I want to do a "you are on track or not on track" it's $550 for a two hour analysis and you walk away with a boat load of model runs with up to three retiree age scenarios.
I was impressed by his knowledge of our company's pension, 401K, retiree medical, medigap insurance, and even our business itself (he used to give retirement classes here).
His full service fee is 1.25%. That does not settle well with me given I want to be active in my post retirement finances vs. just hand over the keys.
I"m guessing this forum has many posts on this but I'm being lazy to do a search and asking for input or the link to other posts who've asked about "normal" fees for a FN advisor.
Having said that I"m also guessing most folks on here manage their own finances so maybe this is a silly question.
Trying not to be cheap but my Plan B is use the guy at Merrill Lynch my dad used (he's passed, now I help my mom out with that).
His fee is $125 a year. No kidding. Maybe I just answered my own question.
My 401K will be ~ $750K at retirement so the thought if 1.25% on that balance is not feeling all that user friendly FIRECALC says 93% for me at 55. I did a longerish post a few months back with all my stats if you are curious.
Thanks in advance.
I'm 52 ish and for the mega corp I work at has an out at 55 for "early retirement" without much impact to pension. Lots of folks I work with at my company who have recently retired have referred me to a local Seattle WA FN advisor. Hope it's OK to attach below because I did
Paul Ried.Financial Group, LLC: Financial planning, investment management
This guy is full service. The first 30 minute telecon was free. If I want to do a "you are on track or not on track" it's $550 for a two hour analysis and you walk away with a boat load of model runs with up to three retiree age scenarios.
I was impressed by his knowledge of our company's pension, 401K, retiree medical, medigap insurance, and even our business itself (he used to give retirement classes here).
His full service fee is 1.25%. That does not settle well with me given I want to be active in my post retirement finances vs. just hand over the keys.
I"m guessing this forum has many posts on this but I'm being lazy to do a search and asking for input or the link to other posts who've asked about "normal" fees for a FN advisor.
Having said that I"m also guessing most folks on here manage their own finances so maybe this is a silly question.
Trying not to be cheap but my Plan B is use the guy at Merrill Lynch my dad used (he's passed, now I help my mom out with that).
His fee is $125 a year. No kidding. Maybe I just answered my own question.
My 401K will be ~ $750K at retirement so the thought if 1.25% on that balance is not feeling all that user friendly FIRECALC says 93% for me at 55. I did a longerish post a few months back with all my stats if you are curious.
Thanks in advance.