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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: ajm101 ✭  😊 😞
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Subject: Fidelity Portfolio Advisory Services
Date: 12/15/23 12:23 PM
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I am curious if others have been with Fidelity PAS longer than me or have thoughts about this subject.

Like most others here, I engage in and enjoy self-directed investing. But in an effort to correct for my own blind spots and avoid concentration risk, I have some retirement savings managed by Fidelity.

Because various factors, I have chosen the highest risk/return allocation (scale 1-10) and am coming up on a decade with them. Over that time, the fees have been approximately 1% annually and the returns have trailed SPX by between 4-5%. I have some decisions to make coming up about allocation and management, and I would still like to not be 100% self directed. I don't see how I can continue with Fidelity, though, given the fees and long-term gap between what I'd consider my target benchmark given my target risk. Over my time with them, the cumulative underperformance difference is over 100%.

Has anyone else hit this issue? What have you done? I've tried to give them a full economic cycle to be fair to them, have I not given them enough time?
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