These guys were an absolute nightmare. I started with $462K in April 2006 (yes, I know baaaaaad timing) and finally left them in March 2012 with only $353K. I paid them aprox. $40K in advisory fees to lose me another $70K! I know that the market was a not the best during this time, but I can compare them to my other investments during that time. I didn't have all of my assets under their advisement. That's the madding thing, my smaller investments (work 401K) not only recovered within that same time frame (as did my wife's), but had a positive return by the time I left CWM (4-5%). In addition, I had purchased some securities on my own (unfortunately only a small fraction to what they were managing, $40Kish) and I was almost double by the time I left CWM (since then they have continued to do very well and I am now over 100% return). They were recommended to me by a friend that had invested with them during the boom times (2002-2005) and had made a lot of money for them, however when thing got tough, these guys fell on their faces. In my opinion, they have no clue of what they are doing. read more