financial advisors, a couple of them might hit the jackpot at one time or another. That doesn’t prove that they can do it again ( after you give them your money). Of course , when they act upon inside information, they may well have an exceptionally high hit ratio . Sure that’s illegal. R defund the Security & Exchange Commission
and often perpetrators go unpunished while too many continue to worship $ $ $ .
You remind me of the people who foolishly made a lawyer the administrator of their estate.
In the 18th and 19th Century, a father who died,intestate, and had a decent estate and left minor children. created a problem, If he had a son of age (16 in colonial south) then the rules of primogeniture applied, and the eldest son inherited the estate, but if the children were minors they were considered orphans, even though the mother lived,
and the estate would devolve to the oldest orphan.
Then people would line up to be made guardian. After posting a a bond, the guardian would then have access to the estate, and would use it as an ATM. I've perused probate records in Alabama, Georgia and Virginia and have seen copies of bills levied against an estate by a guardian for a variety of goods, most of them obviously specious.
My 3rd great grandfather became guardian of his brothers orphaned (youngest) child a girl of seven who inherited her fathers female slave and child, he subsequently married his brothers widow.
A blindfolded monkey tossing darts
at a list of publicly traded companies
might do as well picking the stocks
as some of the financial advisors .
But , given the large number of
financial advisors, a couple of them might hit the jackpot at one time or another. That doesn’t prove that they can do it again ( after you give them your money). Of course , when they act upon inside information, they may well have an exceptionally high hit ratio . Sure that’s illegal. R defund the Security & Exchange Commission
and often perpetrators go unpunished while too many continue to worship $ $ $ .
You remind me of the people who foolishly made a lawyer the administrator of their estate.
In the 18th and 19th Century, a father who died,intestate, and had a decent estate and left minor children. created a problem, If he had a son of age (16 in colonial south) then the rules of primogeniture applied, and the eldest son inherited the estate, but if the children were minors they were considered orphans, even though the mother lived,
and the estate would devolve to the oldest orphan.
Then people would line up to be made guardian. After posting a a bond, the guardian would then have access to the estate, and would use it as an ATM. I've perused probate records in Alabama, Georgia and Virginia and have seen copies of bills levied against an estate by a guardian for a variety of goods, most of them obviously specious.
My 3rd great grandfather became guardian of his brothers orphaned (youngest) child a girl of seven who inherited her fathers female slave and child, he subsequently married his brothers widow.