Back to a more normal routine this week, after nice visits to the in-laws and my mother and sister.

The Unknown Advisor will be writing some important things, in several parts, over the next few days, about how to determine if your financial advisor is serving himself first (at your expense,) or whether he is actually trying to serve your interests first -- and yes, you can find such financial advisors, we do exist. So the first issue up this week will be ... how do you know if your financial advisor's fiduciary standards measure up? The first part later today.