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Attention RIAs, CFPs, etc... here's an opportunity to provide a unique and necessary service to your clients! In the world of investments, the Stock Market is King. Still, few financial professionals these days encourage their clients to develop investment portfolios comprised of individual securities. Here's a void that you are uniquely qualified to fill! 

(Re)learn the Principles of Investing. Learn how to select high quality stocks for your clients and how to manage their portfolios productively! Learn a new approach to Asset Allocation and performance evaluation... one that is suitable for all portfolios.

Most Registered Investment Advisors and Certified Financial Planners focus all of their attention on Mutual Funds and other Products designed for mass distribution. Stocks and Bonds have been erased from their working vocabulary. 

It is estimated that 75% of the professional investment advisors out there, stock brokers included, have little or no experience in selecting individual equities and really have no desire to take the responsibility to do so! 

You, on the other hand, are either totally qualified to structure individual security portfolios now, or will be once you've studied the message within the book that you see to your left, which could well be entitled "Back to the Investment Portfolio Management Future"! 

Come on now, you've experienced the six plus years of dismal performance in the funds. You've read about the scandals in the research entities, and seen how the herd mentality makes fund investing more risky and volatile than ever before.

You know that the fund managers can't make the appropriate decisions when either fear or greed take over the decision making of the masses. Yes, of course it is. It's time to go back to your Investment roots. Breakout the text for Investments 101... let's get you back into Stocks and Bonds! 

Note! Make sure you understand this basic truth: absolutely anyone can call himself or herself an Investment Advisor, and the vast majority of Investment Advisors only sell Investment Products! You need to become THE Investment Advisor with the right stuff! Jump ahead of the competition! You need to know how to: 

  • Select high quality stocks.

  • Properly diversify a portfolio.

  • Find safe, high yielding fixed income securities.

  • Manage a portfolio by the "profitability code" and not the tax code, etc.

Face it, change is coming to the Mutual Fund business because consumers are tiring of their poor performance. 
  • The Widely Accepted Market averages are barely above where they were six years ago while, at the same time, NYSE Issue Breadth has been positive for Six Consecutive Years! 
  • The scandals aren't stopping anytime soon, yet hundreds of thousands of Investment Advisors continue to convince millions of consumers that their Fund Companies are the best! 

Aren't you beginning to feel vulnerable?

  Get ready to break free. Learn Something OLD!

"The Brainwashing of the American Investor" addresses the Investment Advisor issue with a true story called "Girl Meets Boy" which played out in early 2000, just before the speculative "dot.com" bubble burst. You can find the story on page 37, but the gist is that it is your responsibility to do what is right for your clients first, even if it does require a whole lot more work ... and gray matter. 

If your goal is to barely survive as an Investment Advisor, resist the change; but if you are destined to thrive as an Investment Advisor, you'll have to do it with Stocks and Bonds! 

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