http://www.netvouz.com/infor626/tag/financial?feed=rss&pg=10 infor626's bookmarks tagged "financial" on Netvouz http://www.gefn.com/mutualfunds/elfun/ infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.globalfindata.com/ infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.globalfindata.com/ infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.98/governmental-and-self-regulation-of-the-securities-industry.html Governmental and self-regulation of the securities industry - Financial Advisors, Investment Counselors, and the Financial Industry > Regulation of Financial Advisors and Investment Advisers - Financial Articles, Regarding regulation of financial planners and investment advisors, the picture can sometimes be confusing. While various state and federal government entities can enforce laws, these agencies usually are not be involved in the direct management and regulation of market brokers and other financial or investment advisors. infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.garrettplanningnetwork.com/files/f_splash.htm infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://my.hdvest.com/changenav.asp?sectionname=myhdvest&Oldsectionname=28&Newsectionname=28 Financial Services - MyHDVEST.com infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.250/how-expensive-is-advisor-compensation-paid-via-sales-loads.html How expensive is advisor compensation paid via sales loads? - Financial Advisors, Investment Counselors, and the Financial Industry > Payment of Investment Advisors, Financial Planners, and Investment Counselors - Financial Articles, A sales load might be the method that you prefer to compensate your broker or advisor. If your advisor is truly competent and ethical, he may be able to manage properly the inherent conflicts of interest that are associated with commissioned investment product sales. Even if you actually are getting good advice, paying your advisor via a sales load charge is just one of several potential compensation method alternatives to pay for his services.The key question is whether the cumulative lifetime value of the investment sales ... infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/wp/how-expensive-is-investment-advisor-compensation-paid-via-sales-loads-236.htm Even if you actually are getting good financial advice, paying your investment advisor via a sales load charge is just one of several potential compensation infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.261/how-to-lie-with-statistics-investment-performance-charts-part-1.html How to lie with statistics: Investment performance charts (Part 1 of 2) - Financial Advisors, Investment Counselors, and the Financial Industry > Are Your Best Interests the Same as the Financial Services Industry? - Financial Articles, Historical investment performance charts for investment funds might be historically accurate, but their presentation in advertising, on line, and in printed materials can amount to lies from several perspectives. Performance charts are designed to lure gullible individual investors with an implied promise that superior past performance will continue. The financial research literature tells us clearly that on average this is a promise that cannot be kept. In other words, historical performance charts are a veiled lie. They... infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT http://www.theskilledinvestor.com/ss.item.260/how-to-lie-with-statistics-investment-performance-charts-part-2.html How to lie with statistics: Investment performance charts (Part 2 of 2) - Financial Advisors, Investment Counselors, and the Financial Industry > Are Your Best Interests the Same as the Financial Services Industry? - Financial Articles, The securities industry and many of its brokers and investment advisors know that low cost index strategies are better for individual investors. However, the active management beat the market industry crowd will not make any money off of you, if they tell you that. They have to push the we deliver superior performance mantra, because that is the justification for their excessively high and performance killing fees. Since market realities make it virtually impossible for actively managed funds to consistently beat the ... infor626 Wed, 07 May 2008 18:53:52 GMT