QUOTE(Amatiel @ Jul 14 2016, 02:58 PM)
maybe I'm unlucky, the very few agents (pm, pacific, hwang) whom I've met never mention anything about setting up a portfolio (how can? I think this is the most important part!) or help me understand how the market works. Mostly just say this fund good, buy. that fund good, buy. I had 0 knowledge about funds then so I just buy whatever lah and we all know how that turn out. so.. that was a few years ago.
now i'm slowly building up a portfolio in fsm buying a few of the more popular funds and do DCA and understand abit more along the way. I think as long as you top up every once in a while, chances of getting heart attack is very low?
Don't know anyone who'd still prefer to buy from agents after they knew about fsm. That's 2% sales charges vs 5.5% not to mention the convenience with fsm. just wish i had known about this platform sooner - found by googling, joined Mar 2015.
Erm, based on my limited observation, most agents or bank relationship managers only push funds. I only learn about portfolio construction after I started in FSM
But then not fair to say 100% of them are bad since there was this agent who came to kacau in FSM thread and showed us some good information
Well, after being FSM's biggest advocate, I'm slowly learning that not all people should DIY. Some of them just find it too much work and not sure what they should do, and they ended up buying the most popular funds like how you would have with agents. So these people may be better off doing it with agent that can do portfolio construction. But yes, for those who want to DIY, FSM is pretty good. As soon as I tell agents I'm with FSM, they will all back off jor; that's if they didn't back off when I challenge their basis to recommend certain funds