Congratulations Wachovia!
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[quote=Sam Houston]I just wanted to say congratulations to Wachovia for the 70+% raise they have given themselves by not paying it’s brokers the 12-b-1 fees from money market mutual funds. Thank you for putting the client first and not forcing the brokers to choose between their own income and doing what is right for the client. I have many clients who went into cash in varying degrees that are far better off today than they otherwise would have been. Wachovia has continued to collect 12-b-1 fees on A share and C share money funds. Only me, the broker has been hurt.
My only question is: why does a brokerage firm care which fund the 12-b-1 fee is from? Is the 25bps trail spent differently if it comes from the Cash Management fund than the 12-b-1 fee from Cap World G&I? I see from the monster list of accounts being hit with account fees that you are not applying my 40+% from those 12-b-1 fees for the benefit on MY clients, instead you are using them to boost your bottom line. Thank you for forcing me to choose between my family and my clients when I help my clients make investment decisions. Guess I will have to get a copy of "If you missed the 10 best days" and start showing that to clients. The firm obviously feels that clients must be fully invested at all tiimes and forms it's policies accordingly. Of course, I doubt that Wachovia sends these 12-b-1 fees back, they just withhold my share from me. I still remember Danny talking about how complicated the AGE compensation package was and how much more transparent the Wachovia package is. What he forgot to mention is that the AGE comp plan was reasonably fair, whereas the Wach plan is a money grab from brokers. Guess the thousands upon thousands of new account fees wasn't enough to pay for the 11 layers of managment between me and Danny. [/quote] You know what...it's time to move the Fck on. AGE was great, but now it's gone...and it ain't coming back. If you don't like WFC, then leave.If indeed you are truly providing your clients with advice that sometimes requires them to move to cash, you would be well advised to pursue a fee-based professional advisory type of account for all of your households which subscribe to your portfolio management. This way, you will be able to get paid when your are moving to cash and clients will gladly pay you a small fee to keep them from losing huge amounts of money when the markets go down.
Don’t focus on Danny. Just make your clients and yourself a bunch of money and retire early. Nobody at this or any other firm cares about you, only your production.
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[quote=Buckeye]
Sam check out Asset Advisor.. I believe it charges a fee on cash balances.
[/quote] The FA has the choice to charge a fee for cash or not.[quote=A b] Wheat-ie
do you work for Danny?[/quote]
I do indeed. He is a good man caught up in a bad storm last year. If any of you whiney AGE folks could do better, why is he your boss, too??
[quote=Wheat-ie] [quote=A b] Wheat-ie
do you work for Danny?[/quote]
I do indeed. He is a good man caught up in a bad storm last year. If any of you whiney AGE folks could do better, why is he your boss, too??
[/quote] Okay sweet wheat , you probably are trying to goat one of the AGE guys and you got me , so you win. 1-None of us whiney AGE guys wanted this merger. We where better at AGE. Everyone was better at AGE. Clients , security gaurds, landscapers, VP's , CFA's and brokers. Even you would have been better. 2-Danny is not our boss. I can't even express how dumb it sounds for someone to ask why is Danny my Boss. Are you kidding me ? A Boss ? Ask any Advisor in America who his/Her Boss is and the answer will never be a over educated corporate widget. 3- Why are we still here ? Because it is disruptive to our clients and families to move and some of us have no good place to go because most places suck just like this one. 4- Why don't we just leave. Because we feel like we owe it to our clients to stick it out and try to make it better somehow. Actually , it would be better if you left. 5- Danny does not suck because of the market.
Nice…
I am turning all of this negative stuff into positive. Converting my entire book (of good clients who appreciate me)into advisory and getting the level 1 award for now. Can’t change the past and pointing fingers only wastes time and energy.
Listen to Dunwoody sometime… what is, is…nobody cares about you.
Wheatie…The pay cut AGE guys took is staggering.
1) Sales bonus goooone
2) mgrs pay cut in half
3) 401k pop gooooone
4) managed accounts haircut-coming Jan 2010
5) pay on mony mkt trails-gooooone
6) support staff cuts
7) trips-goooone
8) payout —less
9) ticket charges mooooore
10)minimum tickets- hiiiiigher
11)loss of branch independence
12) Top down management-they think they know best…thats the hilarious part…they are under delusion because ofthe growth of the b/dealer…when all they did was hijack ceo’s with golden parachutes who were willing to sell their companies for the mammom
13) Age to Wachovia stock…kablooey…goooooone
and the list goes adnauseum
Why are they still here…well the original 6900 AGE fa’s is down under 4700 and I hear a half dozen plus branches are out the door Aug 15th or sooner. midlevel mgt bureacrats eating out our sustenance justifying there position…
Wheatie......I like the honest stuff from Tdude and AGE wach wells . Look at how independant they are. Does it frost you or make you wilt ?
3- Why are we still here ? Because it is disruptive to our clients and families to move and some of us have no good place to go because most places suck just like this one.
4- Why don’t we just leave. Because we feel like we owe it to our clients to stick it out and try to make it better somehow. Actually , it would be better if you left.
Redpen,
You owe it to yourself and your clients to leave and go Indy. Sticking around, waiting for things to get better is not likely a good idea.
AGE brokers are not whiney, they are mad about being told things like “similar culture” and “transparent comp plan”. We were lied too. Repeatedly. Here is how ridiculous Wach is, they send Bob and Jim on a road show and keep announcing “quick wins”. Yeahhhhhh, we can now stop withdarwing monthly from a clients checking to brokerage account without a signature. Oh my god! We can do that verbally now! That is a quick win! Or f***ing common sense.
Just had a compensation problem again and was able to get a supervisor on the phone. I spent and Hour with her. They did not pay me on 5500 dollars of gross. They will cut me a check tomorrrow
Just so you know the min. commision is 95 but the min comm. to the client is 55. You do not get paid under 95. I had 800 bucks under 95. If I had reduced the comm. to 55 I still would not be paid but clients would have paid about 300 bucks less instead of the firm putting that money in their pocket. Watch your trades and lower the commision as low as you can under 95 and do not give it to danny and help your client. You all know you do not get paid on the money market trails. Guess what, you do not get paid on trails of money market funds from outside funds like american putnam goldman etc either. And.....it doesn't even go toward your Hurdle. And did you know your hurdle really isn't 10,000 it is a percentage of the total business mix you have that goes to the hurdle not just a flat 10,000 first. So reduce your small tickets to the lowest the order entry screen will go to. Save your client money that the firm just puts in their pocket. Roll 30 and 90 day CD's so they don't steal fees from the money market from your clientWow! Yeah great place to work, employees need to screw employers and employer needs to screw employees.
And the clients get scewed by both. Glad I am not there. Good luck to all that are.