We started with this company back when they had a small office and a conference room that held 6…read morepeople. It was a small independent company that had a mom and pop feel. They had good reputation among small businesses and came recommended. They took care of you personally. They've grown since then, and the person who was managing our accounts retired. Afterwards, they hired a cookie cutter manager from a large investment house, and that down home feel disappeared. They sold our account to some fly by night no name financial manager in New Jersey or Long Island, and never told us. We found out by getting an email from some stranger telling us he has our accounts. They couldn't even give us the courtesy of prior notification (we would have rejected the request and simply moved our money elsewhere). If they had, they wouldn't have been able to profit by selling my info. Naturally, we went with someone else, but they were actually able to make money by liquidating older accounts that were in the start up 1% commission. They wanted the full 2% and sold all accounts that didn't fit their mold. And then tried to be all polite and nice. When confronted about selling our holdings? "Nah Bruh!!! We are allowed to!!! And we sent your personal data to some guy we barely know!!" This is what they said.
No. Avoid this place if you can. They are boiler plate industrial knock 'em out financial management that doesn't really care about you. Only skimming off your money - which is basically what all financial management firms do, but at least they should be professional and have some degree of ethics. They don't.