Index

A shares

Accounting fee(s)

Active vs. passive investing

Actively managed mutual funds

ADV (disclosure form)

Advertisements

Advisor appearance

Advisor options

about
asset managers
bank-based advisors
fee-only planners
hybrid advisors
independent broker-dealers
insurance salesmen
private banking and trust departments
regional brokers
technology triumph
key points

Advisor selection

about
bad financial medicine
meeting
murky industry

Advisor selection, client problems in doing

about
advisor appearance
feel good brokerage
gut vs. mind
salesmanship of advisor
self-management problems
What You See Is All There Is (WYSIATI)
key points

Advisors, fee-only

Alliance Bernstein

Allocating costs

Allocation

Amazon

Ameriprise Financial

Ameritrade

Answers

duty
professionalism
safeguard

Applications

Asset allocation

Asset class(es)

Asset managers

AUM-based fee(s)

Average costs

Avoid or disclose approach

B shares

Bad financial medicine

Bank of America

Bank-based advisors

Bank(s)

private banking
retail customers

Benchmark Financial Services

Bets

Betterment (application)

Bezos, Jeff

Blair, Tony

Blink: the Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Gladwell)

Bogle, John

The Boiler Room (movie)

Branson, Richard

Broker commissions

Brokerage fee(s)

Brokerage firms

Brokers

and advisors
vs. consumers

Bubbles

Buffett, Warren

Buyer beware

C shares

Cain, Dayhan

CDOs (collateralized debt obligations)

Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA)

Cerulli Associates

Change

Charles Schwab

Chartered Financial Analyst ...

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