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Real financial advisers should always have an opinion

An adviser's job isn't to offer a random selection of options; it's to assess where clients say they want to go and where they are in that journey.

I'm about to share something a little shocking. Here it comes.

I think real financial advisers should have an opinion.

I get so frustrated when I hear that an adviser-client conversation offered a rundown of all available options. Sort of like, "Oh, you don't like the blue one? Well I have somethi

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