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Wells Fargo Pays $40 Million to Customers for Excessive Fees

The Motley Fool

For example, if you buy a mutual fund, you'll pay a one-time fee. Look at the opening documents, account statements, confirmation, and any product-specific documents to find both the type and the amount of fees. Transaction fees are charged each time you make a transaction.

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Here's What You Can Do When Your Financial Planner Invests in an Asset Without Your Approval

The Motley Fool

It's a good idea to do this in writing so you have documentation of your complaint, especially if you've lost money. If your financial planner is an investment advisor, mutual fund company, or transfer agent, you should file a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or your state securities regulator.

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How to value illiquid investments

Private Equity Wire

Documenting assumptions for estimates In documenting assumptions for estimates, recognizing the inherent subjectivity of valuations is crucial. Maintain documentation for all inputs, including growth rates and discount rates. Fund managers should regularly review P&Ps and update as necessary, as they are dynamic documents.

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Surprise: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Might Already Be Used to Allocate Your Retirement Savings

The Motley Fool

Much like Microsoft's Copilot and Google's Gemini, Schwab's tool uses AI "to find companies linked to those keywords and phrases, combing through millions of public documents, such as patents, clinical trials, and company filings." There's far more artificial intelligence being applied here than there seems to be on the surface.

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What It Means to Be Regulated by FINRA

The Motley Fool

A broker-dealer firm is in the business of buying and selling securities -- stocks, bonds, mutual funds and certain other investment products -- on behalf of its customers (as broker), for its own account (as dealer) or both. All broker-dealers that sell securities to the public in the U.S.

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Why a Stock Peak Isn’t a Cliff

ClearMoney

The information in this document is provided in good faith without any warranty and is intended for the recipient’s background information only. Unauthorized copying, reproducing, duplicating, or transmitting of this document are strictly prohibited. DISCLOSURES. Please read the prospectus before investing.

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Seven ways to talk your financial execs out of jargon and bad writing

Investment Writing

That should be intuitive: Everybody is bombarded with content; and they skim or skip pieces that run long, as the mutual fund prospectus research in the next section suggests. Plain English boosts results Research shows that rewriting documents using plain English improves their effectiveness. Don’t believe the research?