One of Taleb’s quotes is ‘never trust an employee’ – I guess it includes commission agents, also. If you are not paying negotiated fees to an adviser, you are paying a pretty high fees in some other form that you cannot see. Here are the case of 2 employees (some coincidence they share a surname). […]

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For regular readers of my blog this is the nth time that investors who do not have a goal find it difficult to handle volatility in the markets. If your daughter is 5 years old and you are saving for her education or wedding, how does it matter whether the markets touch 21000 or not? […]

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