Any financial guru's here?

[Brian37]

In all seriousness, the advice I am getting here from multiple people seems to be the same advice I have seen on lots of subjects, "get a second and third opinion."


I have to say this is a hard road to go, considering corporate monopolies.

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You gave me good advice, so it is not you. I still worry about the corporate world selling me a bill of goods to keep business.

Not every financial advisor is a big corporate entity.

We have a man here in town with his own advising business and team and is highly respected.  

You are getting in your own way with your corporate phobia...you do know that there are corporations behind every penny in those annuities, right?

I have constantly argued that not all wealth is bad. I mean that. But I also look at at the global scale and human greed. I won't falt the lady who serviced my mother  for decades prior to her passing.  But the lady who serviced my late mother is no longer there. And outside banking, I have seen lots of mom and pop shops in any business get sucked up by corporate greed.

I am not currently dealing with the same lady who financially advised my late mother.