So You Want to Be a Financial Planner


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Finally, together in one place, a comprehensive step-by-step process for launching your career as a financial planner. Here is everything you need to know - from getting the right credentials to getting the right clients. Over the next few decades, billions of dollars will be changing hands as millions of Baby Boomers retire. Learn how you can play an important role in ensuring the financial health of future generations! The 8th edition of So You Want to Be a Financial Planner is chock full of actionable tips to jump-start your career, including dozens of valuable new resources from proven business models and state of the art technology. Over 100 current links point the way to blogs and websites of giants in the industry, putting you on the cutting edge of today's thriving financial planning profession. Follow updated case histories from more than two dozen successful financial planners. You'll see yourself in one of their stories and know the steps to take to start your journey, while circumventing the mistakes they made. Learn which organizations will enhance your career, and which to avoid. Discover how to navigate the regulatory jungle with usable 'how to' guidance, including specific sources to get you educated, registered and up and running a profitable business as soon as possible.




Getting Started as a Financial Planner


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There has never been more opportunity for financial planners--or more reasons for financial professionals to consider switching the direction of their careers into this lucrative field. Today's planners will cash in on the huge surge of baby boomers preparing for retirement in the decades ahead. And as the number and complexity of investments rises, more individuals will look to financial advisers to help manage their money. In the new paperback edition of this guide, Jeffrey H. Rattiner, a practicing financial planner and educator, provides a complete, systematic, turnkey framework for the aspiring planner to follow. Starting from the key question, "Why do you want to be a financial planner?" the author guides you through the development of an effective infrastructure and client management system for your practice. The many essential concepts are clearly illustrated with examples from practicing professionals. Throughout this handbook, Rattiner provides personal insights on how and why a planner must develop a solid understanding of client needs before building a comprehensive financial plan. Getting Started as a Financial Planner has everything one needs to know—from how to set up a practice and communicate with clients to how to manage investments and market services—in order to launch a career in financial planning and to attain success in this high-growth profession.




Getting Started as a Financial Planner


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Growth in the financial planning field has skyrocketed -- drawing professionals from accounting and financial services to investment management. Now there is a book that addresses the needs of individuals contemplating or beginning careers in financial planning. This book presents a blueprint for launching a successful future in a lucrative, exciting profession. Noted financial planning practitioner Jeffrey Rattiner covers everything aspiring and beginning planners need to know. He takes the reader through the basics of what financial planners do and provides insight about where the field is headed. Topics include education and certification requirements, options for specialization, fee structures, logistics and technology, compliance, and legal issues. Rattiner also shows planners the best methods for client prospecting and marketing, and lists helpful resources for ongoing education. This easy-to-use guide gives a direct, turnkey approach to entering the field and setting up a financial planning practice. Special forms, checklists, and other useful tools reinforce the hands-on appeal of this practical guide.




How to Become a Successful Financial Consultant


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Everything you need to know to succeed in today's fastest growingsector of the consulting market. Jim Ainsworth is an extremely successful financial planningprofessional with more than 30 years in the business. In How toBecome a Successful Financial Consultant, he tells you everythingyou need to know to move into financial consulting. He familiarizesyou with all the types of planning that financial consultants dealwith, as well as the various investment vehicles. And, based on hisown experiences and those of other successful financial consultantsacross the nation, he supplies you with a proven blueprint forsuccess. You get expert advice, guidance, and insiders' tips on howto: * Get the education, experience, and licensing you need to qualify. * Get certified (and whether you need to). * Develop a surefire success plan. * Set up a practice and attract clients. * Network, market, and sell your services. * Set fees and collect other forms of compensation for yourservices. * Avoid the 10 most common mistakes that beginners make. * Get the most out of meetings and professional conferences. Written by Jim Ainsworth, a financial planning professional with 30years in the business, this valuable guide provides professionalsinterested in making the move into financial consulting witheverything they need to know to make a living investing otherpeople's money. Drawing on his personal experiences and those of colleagues acrossNorth America, Ainsworth covers all the bases. He begins bydescribing the three major groups of financial planners and theseven different styles of asset management and helps you to decidewhich is right for you. You find out all about the various types offinancial planning that most consultants deal with--includingestate planning, retirement planning, and family financialplanning--and the best investment vehicles currentlyavailable. Ainsworth then cuts to the chase and provides the nuts-and-boltsinformation you need to make it as a financial adviser. Writing ina down-to-earth style, he tells you what type of education andexperience you need to become an effective financial consultant,how to become licensed, how to get started in business, how to setfees and receive compensation, how to market your services andpromote different financial instruments, and much more. He showsyou how to develop a surefire success plan, and he supplies expertadvice and guidance on how to avoid the top 10 beginners'mistakes. Throughout this book, Ainsworth advocates taking a holisticapproach to financial planning--one that takes into considerationnot just people's differing needs, but their contrasting attitudesabout money and investments. To that end, he provides insightfulprofiles of the different types of "money personalities" in thefinancial world and shows you how to identify and successfully workwith each type. How to Become a Successful Financial Consultant is your completeguide to making it in today's fastest growing sector of theconsulting market.




The White Coat Investor


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Written by a practicing emergency physician, The White Coat Investor is a high-yield manual that specifically deals with the financial issues facing medical students, residents, physicians, dentists, and similar high-income professionals. Doctors are highly-educated and extensively trained at making difficult diagnoses and performing life saving procedures. However, they receive little to no training in business, personal finance, investing, insurance, taxes, estate planning, and asset protection. This book fills in the gaps and will teach you to use your high income to escape from your student loans, provide for your family, build wealth, and stop getting ripped off by unscrupulous financial professionals. Straight talk and clear explanations allow the book to be easily digested by a novice to the subject matter yet the book also contains advanced concepts specific to physicians you won't find in other financial books. This book will teach you how to: Graduate from medical school with as little debt as possible Escape from student loans within two to five years of residency graduation Purchase the right types and amounts of insurance Decide when to buy a house and how much to spend on it Learn to invest in a sensible, low-cost and effective manner with or without the assistance of an advisor Avoid investments which are designed to be sold, not bought Select advisors who give great service and advice at a fair price Become a millionaire within five to ten years of residency graduation Use a "Backdoor Roth IRA" and "Stealth IRA" to boost your retirement funds and decrease your taxes Protect your hard-won assets from professional and personal lawsuits Avoid estate taxes, avoid probate, and ensure your children and your money go where you want when you die Minimize your tax burden, keeping more of your hard-earned money Decide between an employee job and an independent contractor job Choose between sole proprietorship, Limited Liability Company, S Corporation, and C Corporation Take a look at the first pages of the book by clicking on the Look Inside feature Praise For The White Coat Investor "Much of my financial planning practice is helping doctors to correct mistakes that reading this book would have avoided in the first place." - Allan S. Roth, MBA, CPA, CFP(R), Author of How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street "Jim Dahle has done a lot of thinking about the peculiar financial problems facing physicians, and you, lucky reader, are about to reap the bounty of both his experience and his research." - William J. Bernstein, MD, Author of The Investor's Manifesto and seven other investing books "This book should be in every career counselor's office and delivered with every medical degree." - Rick Van Ness, Author of Common Sense Investing "The White Coat Investor provides an expert consult for your finances. I now feel confident I can be a millionaire at 40 without feeling like a jerk." - Joe Jones, DO "Jim Dahle has done for physician financial illiteracy what penicillin did for neurosyphilis." - Dennis Bethel, MD "An excellent practical personal finance guide for physicians in training and in practice from a non biased source we can actually trust." - Greg E Wilde, M.D Scroll up, click the buy button, and get started today!




Financial Residency


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This book is everything you need to plan for your financial future and avoid paying tens of thousands of dollars to a financial advisor.A financial plan will guide you during good and bad times, ups and downs of the market, job changes, and financial setbacks. Creating a financial plan is not all about money, budgeting, and investing. It's about enabling you to live the life you truly want.As you progress through your career in medicine, you have never been taught how to prepare for a healthy financial future, leaving you vulnerable to being sold products you don't need or working so hard that you experience burnout.Physicians are the smartest people on the planet when it comes to medicine, so why not finances too? Let's change the dynamic between money and medicine and help you live your ideal life.







Financial Peace


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Dave Ramsey explains those scriptural guidelines for handling money.




So You Want to Be a Financial Planner


Book Description

A comprehensive, step-by-step process for launching your career as a financial planner. Here is everything you need to know - from getting the right credentials to getting the right clients. Over the next few decades, billions of dollars will be changing hands as millions of Baby Boomers retire. Learn how you can play an important role in ensuring the financial health of future generations!




Client Psychology


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A Client-Centered approach to Financial Planning Practice built by Research for Practitioners The second in the CFP Board Center for Financial Planning Series, Client Psychology explores the biases, behaviors, and perceptions that impact client decision-making and overall financial well-being. This book, written for practitioners, researchers, and educators, outlines the theory behind many of these areas while also explicitly stating how these related areas directly impact financial planning practice. Additionally, some chapters build an argument based solely upon theory while others will have exclusively practical applications. Defines an entirely new area of focus within financial planning practice and research: Client Psychology Serves as the essential reference for financial planners on client psychology Builds upon and expands the body of knowledge for financial planning Provides insight regarding the factors that impact client financial decision-making from a multidisciplinary approach If you’re a CFP® professional, researcher, financial advisor, or student pursuing a career in financial planning or financial services, this book deserves a prominent spot on your professional bookshelf.