If you have twenty minutes to set aside, I highly recommend you read this. It very well might be the best article I have ever read on The Motley Fool website. Molly McCluskey, John Reeves, and IIan Moscovitz wrote one of the best investigative pieces on the potentially unethical relationship that can exist when financial advisors team up with mutual funds to siphon your wealth.
The article about some of the business practices at Edward Jones. The article originally caught my attention because the headquarters for Edward Jones is about fifteen minutes from where I grew up in St. Louis, and the investment advisory probably has the best reputation out of all the providers in the industry despite a string of settlements in the past ten years in which they failed to disclose to people like you the nature of the kickback relationships with their mutual fund providers.