We provide several links for our clients and visitors that may be helpful in
providing you additional financial information. Those links are:
The CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) Institute has a great web site at
www.cfainstitute.org that provides valuable information for individual
investors. Click on the “Information for Individual Investors” link. There are
several useful publications under “What Investors Should Know,” such as
“Choosing a Financial Advisor,” “Why Select a CFA Charterholder,” and others.
The Certified Financial Planner (CFP) Board of Standards offers a variety of
useful items under
www.cfpboard.org.
Under the “Learn about Financial Planning” link they have a number of useful
topics such as “Choosing a Planner” and “Your Rights as a Financial Client.”
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) provides a useful site at
www.fpanet.org/public. There are a number of useful items under
“Brochures” inside the “Learning Tools” section, including “Tips on Working
with a Financial Advisor” and “Keys to Being a Smarter Investor.”
The American Association of Individual Investors web site is available at
www.aaii.com. The AAII is a wonderful advocate for the individual
investor. They list a variety of educational articles under the “Investing
Basics” tab.
Some other web sites you may find useful for business and financial news are
www.morningstar.com,
www.moneycentral.com,
www.yahoo.com (click on the “Finance” icon), and
www.aol.com (click on “Money and Finance”).
Many of our clients have accounts at TD Ameritrade. The link for our Ameritrade
clients is on the TD Ameritrade Institutional web site at
www.ameritradeadvisor.com. We do not require our clients to have
accounts at TD Ameritrade; several of our clients have accounts with other
broker-dealers. Pine Cone Capital does have an institutional agreement with TD
Ameritrade and will recommend establishing accounts with them as a
broker-dealer in the absence of a client preference otherwise.
If you have additional favorite links that you believe could prove a useful
resource to investors, please let us know and we will evaluate adding that link
to this page.