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Manager & Investment Selection
Building the Right Team for Your Client Portfolios
This presentation explains how to select and combine managers and investment vehicles.
Client Life Events
Planning for Life's Big Moments
This presentation explains how to convey your value while helping clients navigate their life journey.
Retirement
Retirement saving: Save more or take more risk?
Defined contribution plan sponsors need to help their participants manage two significant challenges: building an appropriate asset allocation and ensuring sufficient savings.
Investing Ideas
Strategas Insight: Thoughts on the Current Market
As 2018 comes to a close and we move into the new year, the stock market has hit some turbulence just as clients are receiving annual account statements and paying more attention to their financial health. How should advisors respond to their clients’ concerns? We feel it comes down to a few fundamental questions.
Retirement
Deep Dive: Defined Contribution - Navigating an ever evolving landscape, with Lew Minsky of DCIIA
Join Mark Spina, Kevin Knowles and Lew Minsky as they talk about defined contribution and the challenges advisors face while navigating its ever evolving landscape.
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.
Investing Ideas
Streaming Income - Climbing High Yield’s Wall of Worry
This piece is approved to use with clients.
Global high yield markets face a number of risks, from trade wars to rising rates. Yet, these markets have continued to scale such a ‘wall of worry’ for the last decade. Should we expect more of the same, or are we nearing a turning point in the cycle?
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.
Investing Ideas
Deep Dive: Investing in Today’s Markets Without a Crystal Ball
Join Sophie Antal Gilbert, a Consulting Director at Russell Investments and Rob Balkema a Senior Portfolio Manager for Multi-Asset Solutions at Russell Investments, as they explore some approaches for investing in uncertain markets.
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
This piece is approved to use with clients.
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.