They claim they are making my future easier.
Posted by Markus Langenfeld - 05/18/08 at 10:05:17 pm
I opened a SEP-IRA with ING last year. Since the account was established and I started investing I receive at least 1 letter a week with all sorts of financial information that apparently may or may not relate to the services I actually have with them. I really wouldn’t know as most of the stuff is over my head, it’s to the point where I’m barely glancing at the letters before they are filed away or shredded.
This past week ING has brought the paper wasting to a new level. I received a package in the mail and when I seen it was from ING I could only groan and try not to slam my head into the wall. What could they possibly be sending me now?!
My Variable Annuity Account C Annual Report, of course! I’m glad I received it because if I hadn’t I’d be completely lost. In reality I have no idea what this book is about or why I need it, perhaps it’s my extremely novice experience with investing and retirement plans but I flipped through it and it might as well have been in another language entirely. Sure, this book could be important to some but am I really on the list of people that should find this information useful? Really?
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I think it may be protocol. I wonder if maybe there is some law that states they must send information on the account you hold, lest you sue them over whatever. It should all be online however? hmm.
They dont’ send me jack for my accounts, though.
Comment by Nick Davis — May 19, 2008 #
I was thinking that too, they could be required to send this information out. It still seems like overkill as the book will sit in my filing cabinet unread until I more then likely get another next year.
Comment by Markus Langenfeld — May 19, 2008 #