FINANCIAL ADVISOR
Matt Riggs

I became a financial advisor by accident.

I attended Wake Forest on a baseball scholarship. I am the first person in my family to go to college and both of my parents were hard-working Indiana automotive factory workers. Needless to say, financial preparation and the stock market were not subjects often heard around the dinner table growing up.

The company I went to work for out of college shortly thereafter went bankrupt. I met two people at the gym that I admired, and they told me they were "stockbrokers." I didn't know what a stockbroker was, but after some research I...