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Saturday, January 17, 2009

SOS 2008 RRSP

Yesterday, I finish (again!) early at my morning job, so I call RBC to transfer the mutual funds I transfer too quickly into the free of tax savings account into RRSP. And it was quitted of a challenge. At first, I call and ask if they could transfer the mutual funds I had in the free of tax account outside of it, so after, I could just visit a financial advisor who could had just transferred everything into RRSP and printed out the taxes paper I desperately need. I got the entire plan in my head on how it should have been done, but it didn’t exactly turn out the way I wanted!! lol!! The person I first talk to over the phone explain to me that they would be able to do all the transactions needed onsite. So I ask if someone was available for that afternoon. I had an appointment an hour later with a financial advisor. Until there, everything was working find. Until I actually meet the financial advisor lol!!!

It didn’t turn out the way I wanted. The financial advisor didn’t agree with the move, from moving the mutual funds out of the free of tax account into RRSP. She wanted me to take a RRSP loan at 4.75% with no payment for the first 2 months or something like that.

But hey, where in the world was I going to take the money for a loan? I already have 15 000$ or so in debts right now. Anyway, as I saw she just didn’t want to follow my plan, I apologize to her, saying I had to think about it. But the worst part was when she actually tell me that investing in mutual funds was for long term investment (like am I looking that dumb) and explain I should definitely take a loan and invest in… no mutual funds (that was the worst part was to come) but in MONEY MARKET FUNDS. And I the end, forget about making money through my investments!!! What a shame!

BUT WHY DID SHE WANT ME TO INVEST IN MONEY MARKET FUNDS?

I didn’t ask. I didn’t want to destroy her self-esteem forever.

She gave me a card that I throw away in a garbage can. Before that, she told me she would give me a call to see if I was interested. But I told her not too bother, that I was going to call her (lol) and that anyway, the number I had was just paging number.

Immediately after, I call RBC. And over the phone I explain what I wanted without talking about the meting I just had and without talking about the RRSP loan. But the agent I talk too also suggest me a RRSP loan him too! I was liked what the hell is going on?

RBC is too sell oriented and a bank should be there to help out small investor and it’s a real shame that having to deal with the stupidest financial advisors of all time and ever of my life I will invest through a financial institution. With a brokerage account – no investor profile, no « update » needed (because if I do not update, everything get freeze and out of control).

Anyway, at the end, I explain to the agent that I didn’t have any money left for new investment this year and that I already had a student loan. It was like a desperate situation. It was like no one was willing to help me! I am the one who’s working 80 hours per week for the money and things are going to be one the way I want them! And it did!

But he finally agrees to help me out. But before that, he put me on hold, and I wait and wait and than, I learn the happy news, it was going to be ok; he will transfer everything into RRSP.

But there again (lol!!), I run out of luck.

He calls me in the evening around 8PM because one of the funds I have is now close and it couldn’t be move into RRSP. Financial system is so suck, the only thing it make me wanna do is to run away and never look back. For the rest, it was ok, but the other funds had been put into RRSP. Finally.

Financial advisors really suck and they are just like sale persons and I really dislike financial advisors. I try many times to deal with them, but each time, it didn’t work out too well, as they wanted to keep too much control on my assets. Like I don’t have too much money here and all the decisions regarding my money will be mines. All mines, for the better or the worst.

Dealing with bank, financial advisor and mutual funds, but especially mutual funds is complicated. Its seem like I couldn’t just get the thing transfer like that. They had to sell, and purchase back to transform it into RRSP. Or something like that. But I do not really want to learn more about it. What a nightmare. Or what a nightmare am I.

Next step, is CIBC and Desjardins. I am basically taking everything I have out of RRSP (as mutual funds) and turning them into RRSP. It’s taking a lot of my time and I find taxes, RRSP and financial advisors very annoying and frustrating.

Friday, August 22, 2008

100 more Timminco stocks

I just purchased an extra 100 stocks in Timminco, at the cost of 16.37$ per stock. I now had left around 800$ in my bank account... I just couldn't help it, I just wanted to purchase more stocks. Forget about paying my student loan.

I didn't calculate my overall income for quite a while now since I still have the problem with the Wireless of my laptop. Anyway, I spot that place where it's free to use the Internet, so I can still blog on my little activities. I just hope Timminco will turn well. If it can still reach that 22$ per share like it's once did, I will had make 600$ from the investment. I continue my search regarding Timminco, and what I learn was very positive and think Timminco stocks will just starting to rise in a not too far future. And not too elaborate too much on what I find, well, it was something like they had the contracts they needed and they just had to wait for the money to come in or something like that and for me it was just a buy buy buy comments... or from what I understood from it. I purchase Timminco knowing, again from what I understand, that Sprott sell part of their shares, and the reverse, Fidelity purchased Timminco... and me too lol. And it's hilarious, knowing I purchase 100 little shares. Well, I don't have that much money and now I am broke for the rest of the month lol.

I just kind of disappointed about my Sprott Asset Management stocks and there is no reasons why I had to loose money with the stocks like I did right now because from what I understand, they make 16 millions in profit for their last quarter, if the number is not correct, I know for sure they make some profits and now, a share that I pay 10$ now work less than 7$. But why? It's just doesn't make any sense.

At one of my job I had, I speak to someone who just pass his course to be a financial advisor or something like that and I ask him, just to chat around, why stocks were doing ups and downs all the time lol And than he explain that it was depending the temper of investors and also the news regarding the company, and so on. Like if everyone would just stop selling during bad things and keep holding like me, well, it could help, but just a bit, as he kept explaining to me, because it's not only the fault of investors. So I would like to say to people out there to stop selling Sprott shares. PLEASE.
 

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