Financial advisors must guide clients through life's routine financial questions, like determining how to handle marital finances. And these days, there's the added stress of a volatile economy that has many investors on edge.
In our Ask an Advisor series, real investors have posed questions about those issues, as well as many others — when to splurge on a retirement property on the beach or how to plan for the financial future of a child with disabilities.
As you know, there is no cut-and-dried right answer in most financial planning cases, so we turned to financial advisors for their opinions. Their answers, below, are illuminating and highlight a wide range of approaches.
