Do you value what they are doing for you, or are you willing to do it yourself?
Most "investment guys" do the job of periodically rebalancing your portfolio based on objectives/guidelines that you define, and may offer suggestions/solutions to minimizing tax impact of capital gains and/or RMDs. You can do all that yourself and do your own research on your investments if you want (you indicated that you do not want to). I test drove an investments guy with a portion of my assets but over several years I was generating better returns (doing the work myself) than him, so paying him roughly the 1% fee wasn't worth it, so I fired him (you still will have your investments at a place like Fidelity, Schwab, Vanguard, but there's no cost to that). If you don't understand the value, and costs, of what your investment guy is doing for you, then you should have him explain it to you, and then decide if you want to do the work yourself. There are cheaper "robo" advisor options (Wealthfront, Betterment, SoFi, etc.) where rebalancing, etc. is done in automated fashion. They charge less (.25% vs. 1 to 1.5%) than typical investment guys. You may want to look into that also.
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