The Value of a Financial Advisor: Managing Inherent Risks
Release Date: 05/14/2019
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Episode Highlights:
- 01:56 – How does insurance come into play with life and death situations?
- 02:40 – What are you doing to manage your downside risk?
- 04:05 – There is a cost to waiting too long for insurance.
- 05:56 – Bill Bush shares a personal insurance story.
- 07:05 – Why do some folks underestimate their insurance needs?
- 08:52 – How does an advisor go about managing inherent risks?
- 10:19 – Usually there are financial incentives to get insurance evaluated.
- 11:27 – Motivate clients to take actions on steps towards their insurance needs.
- 13:01 – Focus on the difference between the cost of the insurance premium and
- the cost of the problem.
3 Key Points:
- The cost of the solution is always a fraction of the cost of the problem.
- Evaluate your need to find potential solutions for it.
- The steps for an advisor to manage a client’s inherent risks include: full analysis, figure out what is already in place, see if there are any gaps that need to be filled, keep reviewing, and motivate people.
Tweetable Quotes:
- “Life is going to happen. Thus, death is going to happen too. And of course, that can leave a big financial hole in a family or a business.” – Bill Bush.
- “It’s important to separate out the cost of the problem from the cost of the solution – Pete Bush.
- “You should monitor your beneficiaries, kind of review that, maybe in an annual review with an advisor.” – Bill Bush.
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