Selecting Investment Counsel
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Introduction | Investment Counsel & Portfolio Managers | Brokers, Investment Dealers and Securities Dealers | Financial Planners |
Mutual Fund Dealers
| Financial Institutions

Financial Institutions:
A special note about financial institutions. Typically, financial institutions are in all of the businesses discussed above, in addition to banking services. It is important to note that each subsidiary offering specific services, and the people working in the subsidiary, must be registered and regulated to provide such services. The separate subsidiaries all must operate in the manner described above for investment counsel and portfolio managers, brokers and investment dealers and mutual fund dealers. Some wealth management divisions of financial institutions also provide financial planning services.

 
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"My advice to investors (who cannot give full time to a study of investments) is to seek out some trusted investment counsellor. The emergence of this new profession of disinterested investment analysts, who have no allegiances and whose job is to judge a security on its merits, is one of the most constructive and healthy developments of the last century."

Bernard Baruch 1870-1965

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