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Manager & Investment Selection
How Loyal is Too Loyal? Relying on only a few managers may be a disservice to your clients
Are you confident you are choosing the best managers for your clients? The data from this Envestat report may surprise you.
Children & College Savings
A Crash Course in Financial Maturity: 4 Lessons for Children Going off to College
Noreen Beaman, CEO of Brinker Capital, provides a list of financial lessons helpful for those going off to college for the first time.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Vanguard Advisor's Alpha
This Vanguard Research Insight piece explains why, when adding value is the goal, advisors may be better served by changing their performance benchmark from the market’s return to the returns that investors might achieve on their own, without professional guidance.
Tax Management
Investor Education: Tax Efficient Investing
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Taxes can have a significant impact on your clients' investment returns. This guide helps them understand the importance of building and maintaining a tax-efficient portfolio.
Children & College Savings
Investor Education: Learn About Saving for College
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Use this practical guide to help your clients learn about the cost of sending a child to college and the many savings and tuition-payment options available.
Client Life Events
Investor Education: Learn About Caring For an Elderly Parent
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This guide helps clients manage common eldercare challenges and become familiar with care options. It also includes a list of websites clients can use to make informed eldercare decisions.
Children & College Savings
How Do Summer Jobs Affect 529s and Financial Aid?
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Your teen’s summer gig can prepare them for the future — and help them save for college.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Adding Pro Bono Financial Planning to Your Practice
One of the easiest and most direct ways for advisors to give back to their communities is to provide pro bono financial planning services, and the Foundation for Financial Planning is set up to help them do exactly that.
Children & College Savings
What Can a 529 Be Used For? More Than You May Think
What constitutes a qualified educational expense? When that question relates to 529 savings plans, the answer may be broader than you think.
Manager & Investment Selection
Deep Dive: Manager Research
Join Sophie Gilbert, a Consulting Director at Russell Investments and Kris Nelson, a Senior Research Analysts at Russell Investments, as they explore active money manager research. Listen as they discuss what it is, what it takes to be good at it and how it can help investors.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Financial Planning Perspectives: Invest Now or Temporarily Hold Your Cash
Systematic implementation—commonly referred to as dollar-cost averaging—might provide some protection against regret but at the cost of higher returns.