What's your favorite investment company?

[Eeezee]

I'm using this to help me decide which company I should start my Roth IRA in. Help out the younger generations, ATOT! We're lost and confused!

 

[RossMAN]

Here's mine

 

[ppdes]

Zecco, although they are lowering the amount of free trades soon.

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: ppdes
Zecco, although they are lowering the amount of free trades soon.

Added to poll

 

[erub]

I have Vanguard for my Roth IRA, and Ameritrade for my play stocks..both seem to work fairly well. When I was signing up for a brokerage a few months back E-Trade's rates seemed too misleading.

 

[ranmaniac]

Gordon Gekko

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaKkuJVy2YA

 

[BigJelly]

Fidelity:

Great funds and research and they aren't going away any time soon

Only down side is $19.95/trade on stocks--but I don't buy stocks in my IRA. You can search "No Load Mutual Funds" so you can find and buy mutual funds that you don't have to pay for a trade ($75/trade on "Loaded" funds).

Another factor is compare the companies target date funds if you are going that route :

Link

Looks like T. Rowe Price Group and Fidelity lead the pack.

I just checked my fidelity account:

You can buy T. Rowe target date funds with a $75/trade fee.
Fidelity's funds are No Load Funds (with a fidelity account) so no fee.

 

[Slew Foot]

Fidelity. Solid company with great funds. $8 trades for me, with options trading at 75 cents per contract.

 

[hiromizu]

Scottrade for taxable accounts and T.Rowe for my Roth IRA.

 

[Ballatician]

I'm young too and just recently started a Schwab High Yield Investor Checking Account. I like it because there are absolutely no fees to maintain your checking or your investor accounts and you get a great interest rate (4%).

I think stock trades are around 8.95 but not sure.

 

[Reckoner]

Vanguard owns all

 

[DaveSimmons]

Vanguard for retirement funds because their main focus has always been on index mutual funds. Fidelity comes in second for me because they are just following Vanguard's leadership in shifting away from actively managed (stock-picker) funds.

 

[TheoPetro]

I have only ever used ameritrade but after the etrade fiasco settles down a bit I may open an account there too just for their tools.

 

[paulney]

Scottrade all the way. Have 2 IRA and 1 brokerage account there.

 

[ponyo]

If I were to do the Roth, I would open a Vanguard account and buy one of their target retirement fund and forget about it.

 

[BarneyFife]

Definately Vanguard


The Vanguard energy fund (vgenx) has been money.

 

[alien42]

i am happy with my Ameritrade accounts.

e-trade is absolute garbage.

 

[blipblop]

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
Vanguard owns all

 

[Pliablemoose]

I've used e*Trade for years, if I was to start over, I'd likely go with Ameritrade, mostly because I'm so goddamn tired of the stupid CEO's eTrade hires and the retarded messages I have to look at when I'm checking my accounts.

I've used Scottrade in the past & gotten horrible service trying to get tax information from them. eTrade seems to have a fair share of morons working there too, it took months to get my rollover IRA rolled over.

The final fax I sent them (eTrade when I was trying to get my rollover IRA funds transferred) was headed: "To anyone in your office capable of reading & following simple instructions"

 

[imported_Lothar]

Originally posted by: BigJelly
Fidelity:

Great funds and research and they aren't going away any time soon

Only down side is $19.95/trade on stocks--but I don't buy stocks in my IRA. You can search "No Load Mutual Funds" so you can find and buy mutual funds that you don't have to pay for a trade ($75/trade on "Loaded" funds).

Another factor is compare the companies target date funds if you are going that route :

Link

Looks like T. Rowe Price Group and Fidelity lead the pack.

I just checked my fidelity account:

You can buy T. Rowe target date funds with a $75/trade fee.
Fidelity's funds are No Load Funds (with a fidelity account) so no fee.

Meh...They didn't even compare Vanguard.

Fidelity charges that $75 fee to buy any fund outside their network.
T. Rowe Price has nothing to do with the $75 fee you're being charged for.

If you were to buy a Vanguard fund, or any fund from any other company besides Fidelity; you'll be charged the same $75 fee.

 

[imported_Lothar]

BTW...

I use Scottrade(nothing beats $7/trade) for my mom's taxable account on stocks and Zecco(no commission provided you follow certain rules) for my mom's taxable account on mutual/index funds I want to buy outside Vanguard.

I have my mom's IRA with Vanguard.

 

[Slew Foot]

Originally posted by: Lothar

Originally posted by: BigJelly
Fidelity:

Great funds and research and they aren't going away any time soon

Only down side is $19.95/trade on stocks--but I don't buy stocks in my IRA. You can search "No Load Mutual Funds" so you can find and buy mutual funds that you don't have to pay for a trade ($75/trade on "Loaded" funds).

Another factor is compare the companies target date funds if you are going that route :

Link

Looks like T. Rowe Price Group and Fidelity lead the pack.

I just checked my fidelity account:

You can buy T. Rowe target date funds with a $75/trade fee.
Fidelity's funds are No Load Funds (with a fidelity account) so no fee.

Meh...They didn't even compare Vanguard.

Fidelity charges that $75 fee to buy any fund outside their network.
T. Rowe Price has nothing to do with the $75 fee you're being charged for.

If you were to buy a Vanguard fund, or any fund from any other company besides Fidelity; you'll be charged the same $75 fee.

Not true, Fidelity doesnt charge fees for their own funds as well as funds from a bunch of different companies, I dont have the list with me, but its about 20 or so, I usually pick my own stocks for the most part though, aside from some sector funds.

 

[imported_Lothar]

Originally posted by: Slew Foot

Originally posted by: Lothar

Originally posted by: BigJelly
Fidelity:

Great funds and research and they aren't going away any time soon

Only down side is $19.95/trade on stocks--but I don't buy stocks in my IRA. You can search "No Load Mutual Funds" so you can find and buy mutual funds that you don't have to pay for a trade ($75/trade on "Loaded" funds).

Another factor is compare the companies target date funds if you are going that route :

Link

Looks like T. Rowe Price Group and Fidelity lead the pack.

I just checked my fidelity account:

You can buy T. Rowe target date funds with a $75/trade fee.
Fidelity's funds are No Load Funds (with a fidelity account) so no fee.

Meh...They didn't even compare Vanguard.

Fidelity charges that $75 fee to buy any fund outside their network.
T. Rowe Price has nothing to do with the $75 fee you're being charged for.

If you were to buy a Vanguard fund, or any fund from any other company besides Fidelity; you'll be charged the same $75 fee.

Not true, Fidelity doesnt charge fees for their own funds as well as funds from a bunch of different companies, I dont have the list with me, but its about 20 or so, I usually pick my own stocks for the most part though, aside from some sector funds.

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...eadid=2051171#26535302
My source is in my earlier post there.

They didn't seem to go as much indepth in the July '07 version compared to July '06 in my link above.
http://www.smartmoney.com/brok...x.cfm?story=august2007

 

[Eeezee]

MORE VOTES!!!

 

[imported_Lothar]

Originally posted by: Eeezee
MORE VOTES!!!

This poll is useless without T. Rowe Price