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Sponsored Content: The Hidden Costs Your Advisor May Be Charging You: Godsey & Gibb’s Richmond Wealth Series | Part 9 of 9

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By Michael Gibb
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The Hidden Costs Your Advisor May Be Charging You Nearly every prospective client raises the same question early in our conversation: why do we charge an ongoing advisory fee? Many of them spent decades working with a broker and never wrote a check for investment advice in their life. The idea of paying a percentage of their assets every year, rather than a commission buried inside a transaction, can feel unfamiliar and even uncomfortable at first. We understand the instinct.
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Sponsored Content: What Your Financial Advisor Isn’t Telling You: Godsey & Gibb’s Richmond Wealth Series | Part 3 of 9

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By Michael Gibb
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Your Advisor Is a Fiduciary, But Who Do They Actually Answer To? If you invest through a large brokerage firm and make your own decisions about what investments to own, the concepts I’m going to discuss likely don’t concern you (at least not yet). “Self-directed” investors such as yourselves who use a big platform are in a perfectly reasonable situation. The tools are good, the costs have come down dramatically, and you’re in control. But the calculus changes once you hand the wheel to someone else.
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African Economies Haunted by Oil-Backed Loans as Traders Call in Debts

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By Michael Gibb
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Already reeling from years of civil war and corruption, South Sudan’s economy is being shaken again by plummeting petroleum prices, and a line of creditors demanding repayment for years of oil-backed loans that date back to the beginning of the country’s civil war.
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