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In article <9208251722.AA03647@neptune.think.com> lincoln@think.com (Lincoln Marta) writes:
>I would like to ask about mutual fund investment recommendations
>I am interested in putting together some sort of investment
>portfolio.  Yesterday, I spoke with someone from IDS, who called
>himself a financial planer.  The meeting was quite informative
>and his deal sounded very promising.  His price was $350 for 
>doing a financial analysis.  Then later he would put together
>a package of equity, bonds, and funds "to help me achieve my
>financial goals". After resisting this pitch and reading through
>the information he left behind, I found out that this planner 
>makes his money via commisions, and would probably recommend a
>plan to me which would include buying some investments, which
>would result in paying him commissions.  
>
>Also has anyone had experience with a financial planner?  What advice
>does the net have to offer?
>
>Send email to: lincoln@Think.com
>

If anyone has any opinions on a financial planner, or IDS in particular, I
would be interested in hearing them also, so please post, or send me via
email if you think it is inappropriate.  I have also recently spoken to 
someone from IDS and recived a similar pitch.

--John

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JOHN A. SWARTZ - The MITRE Corp. Bedford, MA * John_Swartz@iegate.mitre.org
"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
 One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."  J.R.R. Tolkien