Things that are not all they're cracked up to be

[MrGongGong]

Ferrero Rocher
After Eight Mints
Kettle Chips
Werthers Original
Uncle Joes Mint Balls
Fisherman's Friend
Pontefract Cakes
Lockets Honey and Lemon

Blended all together?

[Beef Oven!]

Cappuccino

[Nick Armstrong]

Cappuccino

No, Capriccio.

[P. G. Tipps]

Expert Opinion
Independent Financial Advisers
Rail Nationalisation
Equality
Free Coffee & Newspaper in Waitrose
The American Dream
Nicola Sturgeon

[Barbirollians]

Expert Opinion
Independent Financial Advisers
Rail Nationalisation
Equality
Free Coffee & Newspaper in Waitrose
The American Dream
Nicola Sturgeon

Ignorance
Advisers on commission
Rail privatisation
Discrimination

Agree about the last three !

[zola]

Drums at football matches ( and especially the England Supporter's "band" ! )

[ahinton]

Expert Opinion

Depends on the expert, surely?

Independent Financial Advisers

Do I assume you to prefer advisers who are tied agents, since you single out independent ones?

Rail Nationalisation

Agreed in principle, although in practice I don't care who owns and runs the rail network and the trains that run on it as long as the business works efficiently and makes a profit that can be ploughed back into improvements; that said, I cannot imagine how any rail business could function without state subsidy at some level.

Equality

Of what?

Free Coffee & Newspaper in Waitrose

What's wrong with that? Wold you prefer it in Lidl?

The American Dream

Not all Americans dream identically

Nicola Sturgeon

What's your reason for that?


Anyway - PG Tips.

[Beef Oven!]

Protest.

[teamsaint]

dough balls.

[teamsaint]

Advisers on commission

is that like lawyers who charge for advice ?

[ahinton]

is that like lawyers who charge for advice ?

No, they charge by means of fees as a rule.

[teamsaint]

No, they charge by means of fees as a rule.

and.......?

take money in return for advice.

bad lawyer on fees or good FA on commission?
you choose.

[Barbirollians]

I think you are confusing fees with contingency fees . I think it is wrong for a lawyer to have a vested interest in the result and to take a cut of damages

[teamsaint]

I think you are confusing fees with contingency fees . I think it is wrong for a lawyer to have a vested interest in the result and to take a cut of damages

all advice has to be paid for somehow, was the point, even if the cost is hidden.

Commission may not be an appropriate way of rewarding financial advisors, but it might not be the worst way in every situation either.

Presumably plenty of FAs will spend days doing work for which they receive no reward whatsoever.
other reward systems can also be less than perfect.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Drums at football matches ( and especially the England Supporter's "band" ! )