Archive for Brokerage Firm Games

How Much Do My Investments Really Cost? How Much Does My Financial Advisor Earn?

May 07, 2011 No Comments by Bryan Binkholder

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: [...]

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The Corruption of Index Funds & ETF’s: Lesson 101 How the Industry Pollutes!

Apr 05, 2011 4 Comments

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 [...]

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Money Picks For Your Portfolio: Monkey vs Supposed Experts

Jan 04, 2011 1 Comment
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Holy Cow! The Industry Says This Is Good-Broker Compensation

Sep 25, 2010 No Comments

Simply amazing is all I have to say! Citi broker ‘transforms’ a 10 million dollar block of business that previous rep had only ‘produced’ (code word in industry for commissions) $250,000 but this broker took it over and ‘produced’ $800,000 off of the same block of business. This is good for consumers?  Check out the [...]

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How Can Edward Jones Be On The Consumers Side?

Sep 25, 2010 2 Comments

The millions spent on advertising and JD Power Awards for customer service ignore the facts–Edward Jones is just like any other brokerage firm that sucks the money right out of investors portfolios.  While targeting smaller accounts (typically assets of $500,000 or less) Edward Jones attempts to build a loyal following by having an office on [...]

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