Who is the best investment firm in Portland Oregon?
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Depends on what you are looking for. Best thing is to do it yourself and use a discount broker. Check out bobbrinker.com and his educational links. If you are so inclined, you will find controlling your own financial destiny is the best way. I am in Portland as well and I use Schwab & Fidelity.
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TD Ameritrade is the best. I have used for years. The interface are trader friendly and portfolio information are shown in details. I buy penny stocks so the $9.99 fixed commission for unlimited shares is good for me. No maintenance fees.\n\nIf you are going to buy penny stocks, you need to be careful about the commission. Search the fine prints.\n\nFor Scottrade, see fine prints: "For stocks priced under $1, add 1/2% of the principal value to the commissions shown. " You will end up to pay more than $7.\n\nEtrade recently reduced the commission with fixed commission for unlimted shares so it is good for penny stock traders too. But I don't like portfolio web page because it is very confusing and do not show all the information I want to see.
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check Schwab.com , Fidelity.com, Vanguard.com, Ameritrade.com, ETrade.com, Scottrade.com, Tradeking.com\n\nthey allow offer other firms funds to some degree, some without extra charges.
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Try Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sach or UBS.  These companies do alot of investment banking.  \nYou need to ask the broker if (s)he does alot of syndicate business.  What is his ranking with his company regarding syndicate?\nYou should have at least $ 500,000 investable asset before the top guy will talk to you.  They are the one that can give you the IPO that makes money.  \nOpen an account with each company if you could since not one of them can offer all the IPO's.
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With real estate prices still high, I think the best place to invest is the stock market.  If you decide to invest in stocks, the first thing to do is see what the best traders are buying and selling.   This is the idea behind the site http://www.top10traders.com - this is a free site that lets you create a portfolio of stocks with $100,000 in "play" money.  Each day the site ranks the best performing portfolios, so you can see how your picks perform compared to other investors.  You can also read posts on investing from the best traders, as well as share your own investing ideas.\n\nHere are this month's best traders:\n\nhttp://www.top10traders.com/Top10Standings.aspx\n\nGood luck!
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Most of the mutual funds from big names firms are overpriced and underperform. Check out the performance and fees from the fund you bought with its peers. You could use the fund comparison tool at Vanguard.com or one of many discount brokers. I bet you find that Smith Barney takes a big chunk of your investment as fees and commissions and underperforms as well.\n\nread bobbrinker.com website for more unbiased views on investing and no load mutual funds. Also Growth Fund Research Inc. has an incredible recent track record in mutual fund advisory. NO LOADS>
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I like Legg Mason Partners Funds (formerly called Smith Barney) because they have a long history of success. In the past 25 years, the aggressive growth fund has perform an average rate of 14%.\n\nIf you prefer companies that has perform pretty well in the past 5 years, I would pick Fidelity Funds, but they are pretty young and they seem to heading in the right direction. Only reason they are not in my portfolio because they have no 10 year past performance.
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By referral is the best.  If not, set up appointments and interview them and ask about their investment strategies and ethical standings.\n\nBut before any of this, read Investment for Dummies to bring yourself up to speed on investments.  You have to know the minimum before investing.
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Disregard that last well meaning answer.  There are two parts to your question.  The first is where are some greate ways to invest money.  The second is to see a good return in a couple of years.  The second constrains the first.\n\nThe problem is that equity mutual funds (of which Vanguard is a great provider) are really decade or longer investments.  The market is very high right now in absolute terms.  The odds of making a great return in a few years is pretty low.  About the only thing that can give you a good return in a few years with any margin of safety is a certificate of deposit.\n\nI did a search on bankrate monitor.  The two best rates are at AMTrust in Cleveland, Ohio, with a yield of 5.00% for a two year investment.  A $1000 investment would yield a total value of $1102.50 ignoring taxes at maturity.  Slightly lower, Pacific Mercantile Bank is offering a yield of 4.92% per year in Costa Mesa, California.\n\nIf you wanted a one year CD, Corus Bank in Chicago is offering a 4.94% annual yield for its one year CD.\n\nIf you lift the constraint of a year or two to a more indefinite horizon and would include equity mutual funds.  I would recommend the following funds, Mutual Financial Services Z (symbol TEFAX) only warning is that it is very globally diversified, Fairholme (FAIRX), American Century Value Inv (ACTIX), BB&T Large Company Val I(BBISX).  You can buy these from discount brokers.  In BB&T's case, you can go into their branch and purchase it.  TD Waterhouse is reasonable in terms of purchase costs and you may be able to purchase directly from the funds.  Check each out online to see if they offer direct purchase. \n\nThey take different risks, but you should avoid too much grief in any of them and over time you should do reasonably well.  A combination of them might be in your interest if your time frame is long.  You should presume you will not do well in the next few years however.
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right now, buy in safety. Im talking about PG, GE, MO, BUD, ya know, stability. Stay away from the internets GOOG, EBAY, AMZN, MSFT, etc.\nIf you want growth, look at DELL, INTC, (both due to recover) and overseas (anything with Euro, Pound)
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I like eTrade for their web site design. It's easy to navigate and see your account info in real-time. If you trade enough, trades are as low as $9.99. It's also nice to have it integraded with eTrade Bank. If I ever need to withdraw money from my brokerage, I just transfer it to my eTrade checking and write myself a check. (or pay $25 for a wire or $5 to have a check mailed). I have had no problems getting through to a live person and the support seems pretty good. They are a lot more friendly than Waterhouse's.\n\nI like Scottrade for their $7 trades\n\nWaterhouse is OK. I never liked their web design and not being able to see my account in real-time.
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Fidelity Investments homepage\nhttp://www.fidelity.com/
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snc investments, sncfx.com\ni think its the best
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If you want to invest in the stock market I would suggest first seeing what the best traders are buying and selling.  Check out http://www.top10traders.com - this is a free site that lets you create a portfolio of stocks with $100,000 in "play" money.  Each day the site ranks the best performing portfolios, so you can see how your picks perform compared to other investors.  You can also read posts on investing from the best traders, as well as share your own investing ideas.\n\nHere are this month's best traders:\n\nhttp://www.top10traders.com/Top10Standings.aspx \n\nMy stock recommendation would be PWI, a stock I own personally.  This is a Canadian Royalty Trust that pays a great dividend.  The stock has sold off recently, so I think the price is good.\n\nGood luck!
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Fidelity was once a legend.  The firm still has a good reputation.  For mutual fund advice you could lok at Morningstar which ranks these funds.  They publish an annual report which is available for $30 or so which compares mutual fund performance by year, location, fund strategy etc.\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if there were mutual funds which tracked Vanguard investments closely but required a much smaller deposit.
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if i were you, i will buy some investments in Berkeley, keinsintong, el cerrito, and around there. now the prices are just ok, some are over too much, but it is still cheaper than s.f. and north bay!
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I know an advisor and he's definitely a good guy and passionate about his career.  Just make sure you are "purchasing" what you want and don't give in to all of their suggestions.  They are one of many good financial companies.