Quote from chewbacca:
wall street bank ceos and executives - i saved the worst for last.......they are the biggest welfare queens in the world right now.
Your statements read like an immature, stupid teenager.... Securities people do make money, they just have so many stipulations of what they can and can't do with your money that, of course, it turns out crappy. I think you should blame regulation over anything.
And, yes, I'm in the industry, but the problem has to do with the stated objectives of each individual. We are required by law to document your objectives, and we choose investments accordingly. Whether those investments go down or up as long as we documented our reasoning, and assuming the benchmarks were properly selected, there's not really anything we can do about declining equity values.
If you're only down 25% this year, you've done well, which is what I can say to my clients. Anyway, I'd like to see if you saw it coming, because I would doubt it. It's all hindsight.