Financial Services academyrecruiting on 10 Oct 2008 12:00 pm
Greed isn’t in this financial advisor’s vocabulary
This is just a wonderful story I ran across today, and a tremendous example of a financial advisor who’s making a big charitable impact. It’d be a great story anytime, but especially so now with the daily dose of financial sector bad news, finger pointing, and “Who shot John?” blame that’s going around.
Phil Eggers is a financial advisor in Plano, Texas who is also a pilot and the President of the Board of Directors at Grace Flight of America, an organization of volunteer pilots who fly patients to get specialized medical treatment that isn’t available to them locally. Most, if not all, of those patients are either in locations without scheduled air service, simply aren’t able to afford that type of travel, or both.
Check out Phil’s story at “Adviser gives back, with flying colors”. There are a number of very touching testimonials from those who’ve benefited from Grace Flight, and Phil also describes how he came to be a successful financial advisor. I liked his comment here a lot:
The 43-year-old Mr. Eggers is happy to help people in need.
“I didn’t have squat growing up,” he recalled.
Financial services was his ticket out of his Iowa farm community, and Mr. Eggers said he knew he wanted to be an investment adviser since he was in middle school, inspired by a cousin who was a broker and the “the success in the family.”
Clearly somebody who has never forgotten where he came from.
