It was simply a business decision and not a personal vendetta against Rick Ferri.
Mr Ferri saw a photograph of Aphrodite, and decided that it belonged back in Italy.
Mr Ferri finally confessed that Ms True had been only a means to an end.
Rick Ferri, founder of Portfolio Solutions LLC, an investment-management company in Troy, Mich.
"It's embarrassing to have them out there, " says Rick Ferri of investment manager Portfolio Solutions in Troy, Mich.
Ferri argues that the fiduciary standard seems to apply to commissions only.
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Senior policemen and bureaucrats in Rome were impressed, but not Mr Ferri.
Rick Ferri took the argument to a long-term test and found it wanting, largely because of faulty assumptions regarding dividends and trading costs.
Mr. Ferri, I can only surmise we hurt your feelings by not offering to invite and compensate you to speak at the Las Vegas MoneyShow.
But by then Mr Ferri's investigation had achieved its aim: Aphrodite was back in Italy, along with dozens of other looted antiquities from American museums.
Rep. Frank Ferri, D-Warwick, who also is gay and lobbied for gay marriage before becoming a lawmaker himself, said it will be a vote to savor.
ETFs may offer tax benefits and some have lower costs than traditional index funds, Mr. Ferri says, but "there's a learning curve" for investors who aren't used to them.
By coincidence, the purchase was completed on the same day that Italian bureaucrats decided it was time to stop the exodus and initiated an international investigation into the illegal traffic, to be conducted by an unforgiving prosecutor named Paolo Ferri.
In a different Forbes blog, Rick Ferri (The Indexer) mentions the work by Brad Barber ( University of California at Davis), Emmanuel George ( Ross School of Business), Reuven Lehavy ( Ross School of Business), and Brett Trueman ( Anderson School of Management).
Someone who invests with an adviser who outsources the portfolio to another firm could pay four different layers of fees: one from his primary adviser, another from the portfolio manager, one from the underlying ETFs and another for the portfolio's transaction costs, says Rick Ferri, founder of Portfolio Solutions, an investment adviser in Troy, Mich.
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