{"id":7731,"date":"2017-01-20T18:40:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T00:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7731"},"modified":"2017-01-20T18:40:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T00:40:58","slug":"jump-in-with-caution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/01\/20\/jump-in-with-caution\/","title":{"rendered":"Jump In With Caution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about investing, but not the sort to jump in on your own? Be careful about your financial advisor. From a <em><strong>Motley Fool<\/strong><\/em> newsletter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are lots of people out there trying to sell annuities, and some of them engage in misconduct. A recent study\u00a0examined the records of more than a million financial advisors and former financial advisors between 2005 and 2015 and found that 7% of them (that&#8217;s about 87,000 people!) had been disciplined for misconduct or fraud. The top complaints were unsuitable advice (21.3%), misrepresentation (17.7%), unauthorized activity (15.1%), omission of key facts (11.6%), fees\/commissions (8.7%), and fraud (7.9%), and the specific products\u00a0involved in the most misconduct were insurance (13.8%), annuities (8.6%), stocks (6%), and mutual funds (4.6%). You&#8217;re not\u00a0<em>likely<\/em>\u00a0to experience trouble, but it&#8217;s good to be careful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do a little research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about investing, but not the sort to jump in on your own? Be careful about your financial advisor. From a Motley Fool newsletter: There are lots of people out there trying to sell annuities, and some of them engage in misconduct. A recent study\u00a0examined the records of more than \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/01\/20\/jump-in-with-caution\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7732,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions\/7732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}