Originally posted by MBS PremExec:
Sitting next to the professional who wants to give you the free advice, like the Merrill Lynch or wherever he was from (I lost interest fast) fund manager I sent next to yesterday who couldn't tell me enough how wrong I was for whatever it was that I was doing wrong with my IRA.
Sounds more like a salesman to me.
Perhaps you should have pretended to be one yourself and ask him if he had enough insurance coverage? Naw, he'd probably just have wanted to compare notes.