it seems a tad bit expensive to me for an average girl. Let's say a normal money manager charges on an average 1% of your assets, for $350 per month (equalling to $4200 per year) to be worth it, the client would need total assets of $420,000. I don't think most 20 some yr olds have that kind of money sitting around to be managed.
There is a ton of free knowledge out there. There are tools out there which allow you to create a household budget for free. You can even create a well diversified portfolio for little to no money. If you don't know how, either you can learn or pay someone a one time fee to do so. Roboinvesting has really taken off in past few years. That's where you just provide the investing software with information about your age, goals, risk tolerance, etc and the brokerage will buy securities on your behalf, and yes do automatic rebalancing of your portfolio as well.
Finding a good CPA is also not hard. Heck ! if you are in sex trade, just find a client who is smart.. There used to be couple of very qualified CPAs on TER..
Key in financial planning is discipline in saving and investing. There is an old adage that is so true when it comes to stock market. "Its the time in the market, not timing the market !" That's why a simple concept like DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging) has proven to be so effective over the long haul.
Common pitfalls to avoid are reckless spending usually stemming out of one confusing needs v/s wants, fear of investing, recklessly day trading, getting sucked into investments you don't understand, believing in snake oil salesman.. I could go on and on, but you get the point.
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