Dave Butler: It's times like these the value of advice is most apparent

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In times of stress and market downturn, writes Dimensional co-CEO Dave Butler, the value of financial advisers becomes more apparent - particularly because the sector is no longer as great for the product pushers...

Cometh the hour, cometh the adviser. In challenging times such as these, where we are constantly facing rapidly evolving information about the coronavirus and its effects on our daily lives, it's difficult for investors to "stay in their seats" and stand by their long-term financial plans. Tough times are not new. Just about everyone remembers the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, even if they were still in school. More experienced investors went through the tech boom and bust of the late 1990s and early 2000s. For those of us who go further back, it was once hard to envision anything t...

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