Hitting the road with financial advice
The National Association of Personal Financial Advisors will take financial advice on the road starting in September.
The National Association of Personal Financial Advisors will take financial advice on the road starting in September.
The Arlington Heights, Ill.-based organization for fee-only financial advisers will join forces with TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. of Omaha, Neb., to launch a yearlong bus tour aimed at promoting financial literacy across the country.
From the bus, which will make stops in between 150 and 200 cities, NAPFA advisers will offer free financial advice to consumers as well as educational workshops at local college campuses and exhibition halls.
“This is our way of taking to the streets with financial literacy,” said Todd Macke, president of Macke Financial Advisory Group Inc. in Fort Myers, Fla. “It’s our way of making a difference, one person at a time.”
The bus, which is being paid for by TD Ameritrade, will be “media-equipped” to accommodate interviews with local press members as well as blogging and uploading of videos to the YouTube video-sharing website.
The bus will be staffed by NAPFA advisers based in each of the cities it visits.
“This will be our imprint,” Mr. Macke told attendees of NAPFA’s annual general membership conference last month in Long Beach, Calif. “This is our way of having an impact on the country.”
The bus will begin its tour Sept. 1 in Washington.
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