Can I hire a fee-only financial planner for a one-time consultation?

Post date: 2021-06-14 14:14:19

I am pretty comfortable DIYing my own investments and money management, but I do want someone to give me some impartial advice on anything I should consider doing differently, and maybe push me to take a little bit more risk, as I tend to be extremely risk-averse.

I am not willing to work with anyone who makes a commission by selling me financial products. "Fee-only" is extremely important to me. But most of the fee-only planners I have looked into seem to get their compensation as a fee based on the amount of assets I have under management with them. I do not want any assets under management. I don't want to hand off active control of any of my finances to someone else, and I don't really want an ongoing engagement. Are these folks willing to accept an hourly consultation fee, and if so, do you have any advice on how to approach that with them if they are used to working with the AUM model?

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