Some of the Things that a Professional Financial Advisor Does
Rev. Atty. Terence Camua, MACL, is a legal and financial advisor. He also taught business law, economics and taxation in various higher educational institutions. His advocacy is to spread financial literacy . He and his lovely wife, Fifi, live in Las Piñas City, Philippines.
Financial Planning:
• Cares more about you and your money than anyone who doesn’t share your last name
• Asks questions in order to understand your needs and objectives
• Helps you determine where you are at present
• Guides you to think about areas of your financial life you may not have considered
• Helps organize your financial situation
• Formalizes your goals and puts them in writing for you
• Helps you prioritize your financial opportunities
• Helps you determine realistic goals
• Studies possible alternatives that could meet your goals
• Prepares a financial plan and/or an investment policy statement for you
• Makes specific recommendations to help you meet your goals
• Implements those recommendations
• Suggests creative alternatives that you may not have considered
• Reviews and recommends life insurance policies to protect you
• Assists you in setting up a company retirement plan
• Assists in preparing an estate plan for you
• Persuades you to do the things you know you ought to do, even if you don’t feel like doing them
• Cares more about you and your money than anyone who doesn’t share your last name
• Asks questions in order to understand your needs and objectives
• Helps you determine where you are at present
• Guides you to think about areas of your financial life you may not have considered
• Helps organize your financial situation
• Formalizes your goals and puts them in writing for you
• Helps you prioritize your financial opportunities
• Helps you determine realistic goals
• Studies possible alternatives that could meet your goals
• Prepares a financial plan and/or an investment policy statement for you
• Makes specific recommendations to help you meet your goals
• Implements those recommendations
• Suggests creative alternatives that you may not have considered
• Reviews and recommends life insurance policies to protect you
• Assists you in setting up a company retirement plan
• Assists in preparing an estate plan for you
• Persuades you to do the things you know you ought to do, even if you don’t feel like doing them
Investments:
• Prepares an asset allocation for you so you can achieve the best rate of return for a given level of risk tolerance
• Does due diligence on money managers and mutual fund managers in order to make appropriate recommendations
• Stays up to date on changes in the investment world
• Monitors your investments
• Reviews existing annuities
• Reviews your investments in your company PERA plans
• Reviews and revises portfolios as conditions change
• Guides you through difficult periods in the stock market by sharing historical perspective
• Works with you to improve your investment performance
• Can look inside your mutual funds to compare how many of their holdings duplicate each other
• Converts your investments to lifetime income
• Helps you evaluate the differences in risk levels between various fixed-income investments such as government bonds and corporate bonds.
• Provides research on stocks from both affiliated firm and third parties
• Holds and warehouses stocks, bonds and other securities
• Records and researches your cost basis on securities
• Provides you with unbiased stock research
• Provides you with personal stock analysis
• Provides you with a written sector-based evaluation of your portfolio
• Determines the risk level of your existing portfolio
• Helps you consolidate and simplify your investments
• Can provide you with technical fundamental and quantitative stock analysis
• Gives you strategies for trading options
• Provides you with executive services involving restricted stock and employer stock options
• Provides introductions to money managers
• Show you how to access your statement and other information online
• Shops top rates from financial institutions throughout the country
• Provides access to answers from a major investment firm
• Prepares an asset allocation for you so you can achieve the best rate of return for a given level of risk tolerance
• Does due diligence on money managers and mutual fund managers in order to make appropriate recommendations
• Stays up to date on changes in the investment world
• Monitors your investments
• Reviews existing annuities
• Reviews your investments in your company PERA plans
• Reviews and revises portfolios as conditions change
• Guides you through difficult periods in the stock market by sharing historical perspective
• Works with you to improve your investment performance
• Can look inside your mutual funds to compare how many of their holdings duplicate each other
• Converts your investments to lifetime income
• Helps you evaluate the differences in risk levels between various fixed-income investments such as government bonds and corporate bonds.
• Provides research on stocks from both affiliated firm and third parties
• Holds and warehouses stocks, bonds and other securities
• Records and researches your cost basis on securities
• Provides you with unbiased stock research
• Provides you with personal stock analysis
• Provides you with a written sector-based evaluation of your portfolio
• Determines the risk level of your existing portfolio
• Helps you consolidate and simplify your investments
• Can provide you with technical fundamental and quantitative stock analysis
• Gives you strategies for trading options
• Provides you with executive services involving restricted stock and employer stock options
• Provides introductions to money managers
• Show you how to access your statement and other information online
• Shops top rates from financial institutions throughout the country
• Provides access to answers from a major investment firm
Taxes
• Suggests alternatives to lower your taxes
• Review your tax returns with an eye to possible savings in the future
• Stays up to date on tax law changes
• Helps you reduce your taxes
• Repositions investments to take full advantage of tax law provisions
• Works with your tax and legal advisors to help you meet your financial goals.
• Suggests alternatives to lower your taxes
• Review your tax returns with an eye to possible savings in the future
• Stays up to date on tax law changes
• Helps you reduce your taxes
• Repositions investments to take full advantage of tax law provisions
• Works with your tax and legal advisors to help you meet your financial goals.
Person-to Person:
• Monitors changes in your life and family situation
• Proactively keeps in touch with you
• Remains only a telephone call away to answer financial questions for you
• Serves as a human glossary of financial terms such as beta, P/E ratio, and Sharpe ratio
• Makes sure that the he/she and the firm provide excellent service at all times
• Provides referrals to other professionals, such as accountants and attorneys
• Refers you to banking establishments for loan and trust alternatives
• Provides you with a chart showing the monthly income from all of your investments
• Suggests alternatives to increase your income during retirement
• Listens and provides feedback in a way that a magazine or newsletter writer does not
• Shares the experiences of dozens or hundreds of clients who have faced circumstances similar to yours
• Helps educate your children and grandchildren about investments and financial concepts
• Holds seminars to discuss significant and /or new financial concepts
• Helps with continuity of your family’s financial plan through generations
• Facilitates the transfer of investments from individual names to trust or from an owner through to beneficiaries
• Keeps you on track
• Identifies your savings shortfalls
• Develops and monitors a strategy for debt reduction
• Educates you on retirement issues
• Educates you on estate planning issues
• Educates you on college savings and financial aid options
• Is someone you can trust and get advice from in all of your financial matters
• Is a wise sounding board for ideas you are considering
• Is honest with you
• Saves you time
• Monitors changes in your life and family situation
• Proactively keeps in touch with you
• Remains only a telephone call away to answer financial questions for you
• Serves as a human glossary of financial terms such as beta, P/E ratio, and Sharpe ratio
• Makes sure that the he/she and the firm provide excellent service at all times
• Provides referrals to other professionals, such as accountants and attorneys
• Refers you to banking establishments for loan and trust alternatives
• Provides you with a chart showing the monthly income from all of your investments
• Suggests alternatives to increase your income during retirement
• Listens and provides feedback in a way that a magazine or newsletter writer does not
• Shares the experiences of dozens or hundreds of clients who have faced circumstances similar to yours
• Helps educate your children and grandchildren about investments and financial concepts
• Holds seminars to discuss significant and /or new financial concepts
• Helps with continuity of your family’s financial plan through generations
• Facilitates the transfer of investments from individual names to trust or from an owner through to beneficiaries
• Keeps you on track
• Identifies your savings shortfalls
• Develops and monitors a strategy for debt reduction
• Educates you on retirement issues
• Educates you on estate planning issues
• Educates you on college savings and financial aid options
• Is someone you can trust and get advice from in all of your financial matters
• Is a wise sounding board for ideas you are considering
• Is honest with you
• Saves you time
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