Sometimes you need friends who really understand stocks, bonds, emerging markets, 401K's, Roth's, IRA's, risk vs. return, dividends, roll overs, and long term planning. I started a Roth in Sacramento with an EJ office down there.
I've since moved norte and needed a new contact with Edward Jones, so I called up Patrick De La Grange at this officina. He looked at the funds I held at another place and evaluated them for their risk vs. return and it just wasn't good enough so I dropped the other place and moved them over, kept the funds that Patrick liked.
Patrick has also looked at my current allocations to the different mutual funds in my 401K and made recommendations based on their management and dividends.
After a staff meeting today where the regional manager told us that financial knowledge is financial power is important in terms of benefiting your company or yourself and Patrick really helps me in that regard. read more