From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Advisor
Advisor
An advisor is normally a person with more and deeper • Deputy National Security Advisor, deputy to
knowledge in a specific area i.e. a specialist and may refer the President’s NSA
to: • Senior Advisor, a person appointed to advise on the
highest levels of national and government policy
Finances • Ministerial Advisor, aperson appointed to advise
relevant minister on the highest levels of the
• Commodity trading advisor, any person who engages relevant portfolio/ministry.
in the business of advising others • Women’s Affairs advisor, a female officer in the
• Financial advisor, also known as a financial planner, Israel Defence Forces, in charge of promoting
a practicing professional who helps people to deal freedom of opportunities for women soldiers
with various personal financial issues through
proper planning
• In the UK, this person is known as a financial
Publications
advisor • Broadband & Internet Advisor (originally Internet
• Fee-Only financial advisor, a financial advisor Advisor), a magazine which provides articles, news,
compensated only by their clients and accept no and reviews relating to Internet technology
commissions or compensation from other • The CPA Technology Advisor, a technology magazine
sources for accounting and tax professionals
• Financial Management Advisor, a professional • Resident Advisor, an online electronic music magazine
designation of the Canadian Securities Institute dedicated to the global dance music scene
• Investment Advisor, an individual or firm that
advises clients on investment matters
• Registered Investment Advisor, an individual or firm
Specific advisory companies
who has registered with the U.S. Securities and • Amaranth Advisors LLC, an American multistrategy
Exchange Commission or state regulatory agency in hedge fund
connection with the management of the investments • Dimensional Fund Advisors, an investment firm that
of others develops mutual funds grounded in academic
• Tax advisor, an expert in tax law research
• Greenfield Advisors LLC, a real estate and business
consulting firm in Seattle, Washington
Government positions • State Street Global Advisors, the investment
• Chief Advisor, the Head of State in Bangladesh management division of State Street Corporation
during the 90 day Caretaker Government
• Financial Advisor to the Chief of Staff, the head of
the Budgeting Directorate of Israel’s Ministry of
Specific advisory services
Defence • Dipmeter Advisor, an early system developed to aid
• Legal Advisor (Office for the Administrative Review in the analysis of data gathered during oil
of the Detention of Enemy Combatants), part of the exploration
team tasked to conduct Combatant Status Review • McAfee SiteAdvisor, an Internet service that warns
Tribunals of captives detained in Guantanamo Bay users that a site may make them victims of malware
• Military or combat advisors, soldiers sent to foreign or spam
nations to aid that nation with various military tasks • MIT Design Advisor, an online tool for exploring the
• National Security Advisor (disambiguation), the chief energy performance of building designs
advisor to a national government on matters of
security
• National Security Advisor (Canada)
Other
• National Security Advisor (India) • Academic advisor, an employee of a college or
• National Security Advisor (United States) university who helps students to select courses or an
academic major, and engaging in short term and
long term educational planning (in some countries,
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Advisor
the professor who offers a student academic/ • Technical advisor, an expert in a particular field of
methodologic assistance to prepare the work/thesis knowledge, hired to ensure that this area of
job necessary to obtain the degree). knowledge is portrayed accurately in a movie
• Customer service advisor, a generic job title in the • Technical Design Advisor, a person is charge of
service industry, principally used in the United advising in technical aspects of information
Kingdom technology design
• Dangerous Goods Safety Advisor, a qualification • Combine Advisor, a fictional creature from the Half-
required of chemical distributors and storage Life series.
companies throughout the United Kingdom relating
to packing and labeling of hazardous materials
• Legal advisor; that is, a lawyer who gives legal
See also
advice. • Judge–advisor system
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