How to Pick a Financial Advisor: (or evaluate the one you have)

Thinking of hiring a financial advisor? A good advisor (versus no advisor, or a bad one) can mean the difference between a happy financial future... and disaster. In this quick-to-read, straightforward guide, John Woodman first explains why you may need a financial advisor, then tells how you can find a good one. He outlines the differences between five types of advisors, gives tips on how to avoid scammers, and suggests ways to help keep an advisor from running your investments into the ground. This guide is geared especially to people who have $50,000 or more in investable assets. However, some of the tips (such as those on avoiding scammers) should be useful to anybody with money to invest.