Aw shucks, John, you shouldn\u2019t have.<\/p>\n
All false modesty aside, it was great to be recommended recently as a go-to guy for personal financial planning in a book by John Schwartz, a national correspondent for The New York Times.<\/p>\n
Mr. Schwartz, who I met while he was researching his book, This is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order<\/a><\/em> (2018: Avery), interviewed me and several other advisers to find out how we operate. Mr. Schwartz selected me to represent that rare breed of advisers who specialize in hourly advice.<\/p>\n \u201cI was drawn to the simplicity of the services that people like Fredrickson offer,\u201d Mr. Schwartz wrote.<\/p>\n We met for lunch and I provided more details on my approach and philosophy, which is grounded in fee-only (no commissions) advice. I rounded that out with a quick-hit analysis of his investment portfolio and retirement prospects.<\/p>\n \u201cA few hours after getting back from lunch,\u201d Mr. Schwartz wrote, \u201ca friend sent an email around to me and some other friends asking if we knew of a good financial planner, \u2018someone to save me from financial ruin and\/or achieve total prosperity.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cWithout hesitation, I gave him Fredrickson\u2019s number.\u201d<\/p>\n In his book, Mr. Schwartz devoted nearly four pages to me and my practice.\u00a0 I am truly flattered to be included in a widely-released personal finance book that\u2019s written for a general audience. Even if I were not featured in the book, I\u2019d recommend it to people who want to straighten out their money life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aw shucks, John, you shouldn\u2019t have. All false modesty aside, it was great to be recommended recently as a go-to guy for personal financial planning in a book by John Schwartz, a national correspondent for The New York Times. Mr. Schwartz, who I met while he was researching his book, This is the Year I… Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredricksonfinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}