The Financial Coach Bryan Binkholder examines Columbia Management’s Mutual Fund advertisements to financial professionals and individuals.  Watch this short clip and see how what appears to be dramatic proof of their success is actually a condemnation of their failure!

The Financial Coach Bryan Binkholder examines the biggest problem facing investors as they are ‘pitched’ mutual funds by financial salespeople (advisors). In today’s post on mutual funds I want to draw your attention to that sneaky little thing called ‘the fine print’. The crazy thing is, mutual funds love to talk about how great their [...]

The Financial Coach, Bryan Binkholder  is consistently amazed at the scary fact that hardly anyone knows or understands all the conflicts of interest in the financial field and the crazy fees.  So many people have an utter lack of knowledge about what their investments really are costing that it puzzles him. Ask yourself this question: [...]

The Financial Coach reveals in this coaching session how just like the mutual funds industry (which began as a good thing) has become polluted and corrupt, the industry (financial salespeople and firms) are now moving to corrupt index fund investing and Exchange Traded Fund investing (Passive Approaches to investing) by taking the truth and mixing [...]