How Do Financial Advisors Get Paid? Commissions vs Fee Only

How your financial advisor gets paid, commissions vs fee only, may influence the advice you receive and ultimately your financial goals.

Deane Retirement Strategies, fiduciary financial advisors, has been in business in New Orleans, Louisiana for nearly 45 years. We are a team of Certified Financial Planners (CFPs) and Chartered Financial Analysts (CFAs) who specialize in retirement financial planning coupled with fee only, discretionary portfolio management. We manage over $130 million of client assets, utilizing individual stocks, bonds and ETFs. Unlike most other financial advisors, we do not use mutual funds, annuities, or insurance products.

We have two Client Platforms. One Platform for Clients with a portfolio over $1 million. One Platform for Clients committed to accumulating $1 million by retirement.

With over 4 decades of experience, our firm is anchored by three active family members, representing two generations of financial advisors. Our Retirement Advisory team approach insures and provides our clients with long-term continuity of retirement advice and investment management. Our clients are clients for life.