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We all have friends and family who have worked hard, been well rewarded and dreamt of retiring in the knowledge that they and their family’s futures are secure. Often the reality is that they have lost significant amounts due to bad advice from unscrupulous investment salesmen, wealth advisers or investment management companies. The main reasons for this are:
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1 : The salesmen / wealth advisers / intermediaries are frequently paid large fees by the investment management companies, which makes unbiased advice difficult. The larger the amount invested, the larger the fees received by the investment management company, and often the larger the kickbacks to the intermediaries.
The answer is to choose a company and team that are passionate about managing money. A team that is respected as technical experts and asset allocation strategists, and have a reputation for behaving ethically and always putting investors and clients at the heart of all decision making.
2 : The investment management companies are normally owned by companies directly or indirectly via the stock market. These owners exert significant pressure for short-term results. This pressurises the investment managers to flog as many high fee products to as many unsuspecting, trusting clients as quickly as possible irrespective of the long term consequences for these clients.
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4 : Investment managers tend to behave like sheep following the herd into the latest fad as well as dealing frenetically to justify their active management fee - even though research shows these hyperactive fund managers cost their clients dearly. The marketing departments focus on pushing the latest fad products rather than the best products for investors.
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3 : Few investment managers invest significant amounts of their own capital into the same funds or portfolios they manage for investors. If they did then they would not be so incentivised to gamble as they would know that if they got it wrong they would also bear the losses. Heads they win, tails they win - but the client loses.
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