Retirement planning: What to know about financial advisors

In this episode of Decoding Retirement, America’s definitive voice on retirement, Robert 'Bob' Powell speaks with Michael Kitces, Buckingham Wealth Partners Head of Planning Strategy and Reeya Patel, University of Florida Wealth Management Student about the world of financial advisors. The two offer unique points of view on how current trends, and biases, advancing technology, and more impact financial advisors and their clients.

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:45 - How tech impacts financial advisors and their clients

4:30 - The importance of personally catered advice

6:00 - Understanding the crisis of differentiation in the financial advisor space

8:40 - Decoding financial advisor fees

13:50 - Lessons from the CFP program

15:50 - Entering the workforce as a financial advisor

20:35 - Understanding behavioral biases

Yahoo Finance's Decoding Retirement is hosted by Robert Powell, and produced by Zach Faulds.

Robert Powell holds several prominent positions within the financial industry. He serves as the editor-in-chief of the Investments and Wealth Institute's (IWI) Retirement Management Journal, the world's first peer-reviewed journal solely dedicated to retirement income. He also hosts the Exceptional Advisor podcast by IWI. Powell is both a Certified Financial Planner® and Retirement Management Adviser® certificant.

Michael E. Kitces, MSFS, MTAX, CFP®, CLU, ChFC, RHU, REBC, CASL, is the Head of Planning Strategy for Buckingham Wealth Partners, a private wealth management firm located in St Louis, Missouri, that oversees approximately $50 billion of client assets. In addition, he is the co-founder of the XY Planning Network, AdvicePay, fpPathfinder, and New Planner Recruiting, former practitioner editor of the Journal of Financial Planning, and the publisher of the e-newsletter The Kitces Report and the popular financial planning industry blog Nerd’s Eye View through his website www.Kitces.com, dedicated to advancing knowledge in financial planning.

Reeya Patel is a 4th year wealth management student at the University of Florida. She is currently working to earn her CFP certification.

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