Why would someone choose to pay an explicit fee to a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) when they could simply use a broker who charges “no fee”?

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In February 2005, PriceWaterhouseCoopers announced that they would no longer qualify auction rate securities as cash equivalents on the balance sheet...