Comments on: How Much Are You Really Being Charged By Your Financial Advisor?

By: financial advisor

financial advisor — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:20:31 +0000

This only applies to commission based advisors. You can also choose fee-based and planning fee advisors who will gladly put you into the cheapest solution for your needs.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:52:09 +0000

Regarding my previous post, here is a article from Barrons with a good explanation about ETFs as long term investments
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB123155505487470527.html

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:49:16 +0000

Interesting stuff, it is important to remember that ETFs are sometimes not the best long-term investment options, especially leveraged ones, as over the long-term their returns can deviate quite substantially from the actual returns of the indexes they track.