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Javelin Marketing: Booms and Busts Create This Oppotunity

~ Friday, November 21st, 2008

Markets over shoot themselves in both directions to too high and too low.  You have seen the dot-com boom and bust in 2001and you have seen the housing bubble form 2000 to 2006 and then bust.  Now you see the financial crisis which, just as home values went beyond the price where people could buy, will [...]

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Javelin Marketing: Fee Based Model Shows its Flaws

~ Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

For the last 20 years, the securities industry has considered fees over commissions to be the savior of its cyclical business.  The fee based advisors we talk to tell us that their income will be down 50% this year–most of that is due to a 40% decline in the value of client portfolios and the [...]

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