Quote: (05-17-2015 01:20 PM)Yeti Wrote:
Quote: (05-17-2015 08:56 AM)robreke Wrote:
Quote: (05-16-2015 07:39 PM)Yeti Wrote:
Quote: (05-16-2015 06:42 PM)robreke Wrote:
It's like any business I think. There are good ones and bad ones. Many investment advisors do just sell "high commission" products and make a quick buck off of you. A pump and dump if you will. However, there are good ones out there that can help you develop good investment strategies to maintain and grow your wealth long term. Do your homework.
The bad ones far outnumber the good ones and corruption is built into the system. You can avoid such things with legal regulation as in the practice of law, where lawyers are held to a fiduciary duty, but such does not exist with financial advisers.
That's incorrect. Financial advisors that are licensed with Series 7 and regulated by FINRA ( which is all licensed reps) are bound by fiduciary duty to their clients. We undergo continuing education several times a year this hammers these points home in terms of fiduciary duty and always putting the needs of the clients above all other considerations. we are not allowed to discuss client matters with anyone as we are bound by client/advisor privilege just as a lawyer is. The financial advisory business is heavily regulated by FINRA and the SEC.
Don't believe everything is still like "the wolf of wall street" or "Boiler Room" It's not. Hollywood has done a lot to glamorize and of course distort what most financial advisors do on a day to day basis.
The industry rules and regulations further tightened after the 2008 sub prime crisis. The amount of regulations and paperwork I must adhere to now at least tripled since then.
I wasn't really relying on Hollywood. I was relying on what John Bogle, founder of Vanguard, stated in this interview (and which the documentary expounded upon):
The Retirement Gamble (PBS)
I can't look up at which minute they discuss it but the general idea is that advisers are not bound to a fiduciary duty.
Bogle is a very knowledgable and respected guy in the industry. In addition, Vanguard funds, which he founded, have some quality options and have done well for people.
Having said that, my thoughts are that he's like anyone with an agenda. I don't think he's a high paragon of complete unbiased objectivity. I don't think he's dishonest per se. It's just he has an agenda like any company man.
It behooves him and vanguard funds to discourage investors from using advisors. This is because Vanguard funds are not an advisor recommended fund for the most part.
Again , they're a decent fund family, but I've got numerous 'advisor related funds' that I regularly put my clients in that , though the fees may be higher than the no load vanguard funds, have performed just as well or better than some of the vanguard funds in the same class, fees included.
Advisors will also prevent many investors, especially novices , from making certain mistakes. For example, investors with advisors stay invested in mutual funds longer than investors without advisors. This, for the most part is a good thing, as the novice investor who's invested and doesn't know what a correction is like, may sell out of a market correction after some kind of pullback. Then, the market will base out , and start moving up again resuming its uptrend. The advisorless investor will sometimes be skeptical of this new uptrend and not reinvest the funds, while he "waits and sees".
What will happen? It's a bull market that continues for a few more years. The market and share prices keep rising, higher than many people thought it could go. This guy has been watching from the sidelines wondering how the market can go up with so much "wrong in the world right now"?
Maybe the investor finally pulls the money out of cash because he can't stand seeing all his buddies making money and realizing how much he would have made if he'd just stayed invested and after all the financial magazines start touting how no one can lose money in this market.
So, he reinvests it in his mutual fund. However, since he's waited so long, he just so happens to reinvest at the top of the bull market. Within a few weeks, the market begins to falter. Then it really starts to correct and goes into a bear market for a few years. This poor sap will either sell out on the way down or, as I've witnessed many times, at the absolute bottom no longer being able to take the pain.
Forever jaded, the investor says "never again" and ploughs everything in bank CDs, where he's been earning sub 2 % for years and years (albeit it has been higher in the past) ( at which time stocks are about ready to begin a fresh new bull market) I've seen this scenario played out by many inexperienced investors.
A seasoned financial advisor will not let his client make this mistake. He will persuade the client to stay invested and ride out the inevitable pull backs that happen during a bull market.
A good financial advisor is just as much a manager of emotions as he is a manger of money for his clients.
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