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Whether you are replacing an adviser or hiring one for the first time, one aspect to consider is how you will pay. Until recently there were four basic options. Commission-based brokers offer varying levels of advice and collect sales charges when you buy or sell. Fee-based planners charge once for a comprehensive plan, then earn trading commissions. Fee-only planners don't earn commissions; they charge for a comprehensive plan that you then implement. And wealth managers charge a percentage of assets under management (typically 1% or less per year) to strategize for you. Some advisers blur these...
Unfortunately, three of these options are unaffordable to many investors. Fee-based and fee-only advisers typically charge from $1,000 for a basic plan to $5,000 for one delving deeply into tax and estate issues. Many wealth managers won't take clients with less than $1 million to hand over. That leaves brokers, who may be competent and honest but face a conflict of interest because they're paid to trade...
...months ago, the state of the TV networks seemed grim. For the first time during a regular television season, cable's basic channels had collectively passed the six broadcast networks in their share of the prime-time audience. Ad spending--down for all media since the start of the recession--seemed unlikely to do much to improve the picture. Some industry analysts were predicting that when the so-called up-front market began--the period in May and June when major advertisers reserve the bulk of their commercial time for the upcoming TV season--the networks would be lucky...
...since the onset of the recession. "People are a little more bitter and angry," he says, "so they're far more interested in not only embarrassing their boss but using company time to do it." Not that a little plunge in the stock market is going to alter the basic dynamics of the worker-boss relationship. "It doesn't change that much," he says. "You put three people in the room, and one's in charge, and the other two are going to be disgruntled...
That doesn’t mean the U.S. shouldn’t be promoting its ideals of free speech, democracy and the rule of law. The success of these basic values will do much more than a series of sanitized TV spots. Once the Muslim world, from Southeast Asia to the Middle East, begins empowering its populace and preparing its youth to function in the modern world, we may actually begin to see the swell of anti-American anger subside. This may seem too long-term, but there are easy, common-sense things we can do right now, such...