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      07-03-2012, 08:16 PM   #89
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go to a financial adviser / financial planner.

Your question is too general for anyone here to give you meaningful advice that meets your circumstances. Your circumstances may include your age, your family, your objectives, the type of work you're in etc etc etc etc etc etc......

You will be placing a tremendous amount of trust in an adviser. This person should be as trustworthy as your priest or your doctor (if not more so ). Choose an adviser / planner who only gets paid a flat fee, or, if not, gain a complete understanding of how they get paid. Understand their conflicts of interest. Compare their fees and the fees of the investment products they offer.

Once you pick an adviser / planner, get INVOLVED. Learn. Your objective should be to eventually know enough to fire the adviser / planner and do it yourself, because it's not rocket science. At the very least, you want to feel responsible and perhaps rely on the adviser as a coach. A good adviser / planner will not feel threatened by this concept and will welcome the opportunity to assist you in this goal.

Never forget it's your money. If you ever sense the adviser has forgotten, go elsewhere.
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