Entries Tagged 'Investing' ↓

Broke and Broker: My Week at Suze Orman’s Merrill Lynch

Who really benefits from your financial advisor’s advice? It isn’t always you. That’s a shocking fact I learned from working at Merrill Lynch a decade before Suze Orman did.

Suze Orman’s Merrill Lynch office

A long, long, long time ago I worked at the same place where Suze Orman got her start. That was at the downtown Oakland office of Merrill Lynch.

Unlike Suze who decided to go for an interview for a permanent job as a broker at Merrill Lynch after her investment advisor lost all her money in the market, I was simply broke.
Continue reading →