To fee or not to fee pricing policies in financial counseling

• Published in: Financial services review (Greenwich, Conn.) Vol. 19; no. 4; pp. 307 - 322
• Main Authors: Mazzoli, Camilla, Nicolini, Gianni
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Atlanta Academy of Financial Services 22.12.2010; Financial Services Review
• Subjects: Anlageberatung; Compensation; Conflicts of interest; Customers; Financial counseling; Financial planners; Honorar; Investment advisers; Investment advisors; Italien; Preismanagement; Pricing policies; Regression analysis; Services; Stock brokers; Studies; Romania; United States > US; Italy
• ISSN: 1057-0810; 1873-5673

Pricing represents a key variable in the financial advisory industry. For this reason we investigate the possibility of identifying the type of advisory provided by making use of the pricing policy that advisors adopt in the United States and Italy. The prevalence of 'opaque' forms of comp...