How to Evaluate Your Financial Adviser

Peter Lazaroff (@peterlazaroff) is the director of investment research at Plancorp and blogs at peterlazaroff.com. Most people don’t know how to properly evaluate their financial adviser and overly rely on performance as the sole measurement of success. This is problematic...
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Sobering News on Financial Inclusion

The World Bank’s recent Global Findex report found that since 2014, 515 million new financial accounts were opened around the world. On the face of it, that seems like solid progress. But new research and analysis from the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion(CFI) is sobering...
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Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart

Many Americans can’t remember anything other than an economy with skyrocketing inequality, in which living standards for most Americans are stagnating and the rich are pulling away. It feels inevitable. But it’s not. A well-known team of inequality researchers — Thomas Piketty,...
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