They are there to sell products on commission, many of which are unsuitable for older investors.
It recruits college students to sell books on commission door-to-door during summers.
The incoming Retail Distribution Review legislation puts an end to financial advisers earning commission on the products they sell to customers.
The company acts as an online intermediary between fans who want to buy and sell tickets and takes a 25% commission on ticket sales.
The reason is that the Treasury is intimately involved in the negotiations with Lloyds and the European Commission on what Lloyds should sell to promote competition.
This means that the advisor does not sell you investments and does not make a commission on any sales.
In England, the coalition government is currently consulting on plans to sell off land owned by the Forestry Commission.
Not everybody tries to sell you annuities on which they make far more money on a big commission taken upfront than you are likely to see over the life of the annuity.
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For years Schwab made much of the fact that his brokers all work on salary, not commission, and don't try to sell a client anything.
And the Treasury is under intense pressure from the Independent Commission on Banking, which it set up, to force Lloyds to sell an even bigger business than it wants to do.
Korea's Financial Services Commission confirmed that about 2.4tn won in sell orders from foreign investors were processed on that day, most of them through Deutsche Bank's local securities unit.
But this is now drying up, because new rules imposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission have shrunk the profits that market makers earn on the spread between buy and sell prices.
Skilling originally told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission he was concerned about the attacks' effect on the economy, prompting him to sell his Enron shares.
Mr Horta-Orsorio believes the Independent Commission on Banking has under-estimated the scale of what Lloyds is already being forced to sell.
News reports that Cyprus could be forced to sell its gold reserves to help cover the costs of the emergency loans from the European Commission may have also weighed on prices.
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