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From: alan@mtxinu.UUCP (Alan Tobey)
Newsgroups: net.invest
Subject: Re: Looking for info on "financial planning"
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Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 14:40:48 EST
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> 	Having a growing family and a house (i.e. mortgage) in suburbia sort
> 	of changes ones perspective on what to do with "spare" dollars.
> 
> 	Recently I've been looking into "financial planning"
> 	and "financial planners" to attempt to prepare for the
> 	inevitable (don't ask what is inevitable, but something must be).
> 	Has anyone out there used the services of
> 	any "financial planners" (particularly fee-for-plan types),
> 	and if so has the information you've gained been of
> 	sufficient value to justify the cost. (So far I'm not
> 	convinced it would be).
>
January Consumer Reports has an article on financial planners
who provide a canned service for a (more or less) fixed fee.
The bottom line is mostly "don't bother."