As such, the planning process for those who can afford it involves a number
of different advisors, from insurance agents and financial planners to lawyers.
If an investment firm has thousands of clients with similar objectives and risk tolerances, there's no particular need
for different advisors of varying qualifications to construct and maintain thousands of unique portfolios for individual clients (which of course costs money and produces results of varying quality).
Then as the firm grows, as they have success, some of our biggest clients might have four, five, six, eight
different advisors in the firm with fairly massive staff to support them.
If she were to move to
a different advisor who charged 1.5 % with no DSCs, she would save $ 1,000 a year.
Many clients have experienced schemes in the past where the employment advice is given centrally and they are given advice from
a different advisor each time they make contact.