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Should we be moving to performance-pricing?

by on February 16, 2010

To its credit, the financial industry has been playing around with different pricing structures — and mostly, for good reasons. 4 Ways Financial Advisors Get Paid To understand where we are in history, here’s a short overview of how financial pros get paid: 1. Brokerage: This transactional model meant brokers got paid when they bought [...]

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Read the fine print, investors: Some mutual fund fees higher than thought

by Zack Miller on February 15, 2010

We’ve written for a while that for certain purposes, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are a better mousetrap. As Mutual Funds 2.0, ETFs have introduced: new ways to implement investing ideas (eg. country exposure to Poland, Chile, etc.) made existing ideas easier to trade (leveraged long and short funds, buy-write strategies) provided continuous pricing (unlike Mutual [...]

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