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Originally Posted by d2_e4
Also: how much does financial advisor bahbahmickey know about finance?
I'm not making any sort of judgement on his financial fluency
but i think you deeply misunderstand what it is that financial advisors in America do
they don't financially advise, they are sales people who are acquiring clients and then managing said clients
they almost never make a single financial decision on behalf of their clients, that's left up to another much smaller and centralized team - they instead spent much of their office hours dining and golfing and going to the children's birthday parties of their clients
a good friend of mine used to be a financial advisor, was recently hanging out with her and she showed me all her designer shoes and dresses that she had begun to sell because she no longer needed these to go to high networth events to manage existing clients and find new ones
she has a PhD in economics, all she ever did for Merril Lynch and later (i believe it was) Bank of America was wear cocktail dresses and meet with clients