Finding Financial Advice: A Guide For Using The SEC IAPD Website

Good financial advisers can develop a suitable investing strategy and plan for their clients, given the client’s time horizon, risk tolerance, and personal preferences. Some investors, however, may feel that finding a good adviser can be as challenging as investing itself. Fortunately, the Securities and Exchange Commission offers an underutilized resource to make the process easier.

The Investment Adviser Public Disclosure (IAPD) website is a user-friendly searchable database of registered financial advisers and a repository for their Form ADVs, documents that disclose useful information about an adviser’s business. Once you’ve accessed the site, you can begin to address the important questions associated with finding an adviser.