Comments on: Do You Need a Financial Advisor? http://www.moneyhelpforchristians.com/why-i-fired-my-financial-advisor/ Frugal, Simple, Debt-Free Living, and Generous Giving Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:06:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Bret http://www.moneyhelpforchristians.com/why-i-fired-my-financial-advisor/comment-page-1/#comment-92 Bret Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:22:12 +0000 http://www.moneyhelpforchristians.com/why-i-fired-my-financial-advisor/#comment-92 I learned my lesson on my first investment, which was a mutual fund that had an 8.5% front-end load. It wasn't the load that discouraged me away from an advisor as much as the poor performance. After the Black Monday crash, this Mutual Fund just never recovered. So, I signed up for my own no-load mutual fund and I have been in control of my investments ever since. The surest way to underperform the market is to give someone else part of your investment right off of the top. .-= Bret´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BretFrohlichcom/~3/vo9m3Z8QfVY/" rel="nofollow">How to get Un-Broke by Watching TV</a> =-. I learned my lesson on my first investment, which was a mutual fund that had an 8.5% front-end load.

It wasn’t the load that discouraged me away from an advisor as much as the poor performance. After the Black Monday crash, this Mutual Fund just never recovered.

So, I signed up for my own no-load mutual fund and I have been in control of my investments ever since.

The surest way to underperform the market is to give someone else part of your investment right off of the top.
.-= Bret´s last blog ..How to get Un-Broke by Watching TV =-.

]]>