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Philanthropy
Why It’s Important for Financial Services to Give Back
We can all agree that it’s important to give back to your community. Financial services executives tell us why the individuals and firms in this industry are poised to help.
Leveraging Technology & Data
Rise of the Humans: Can Advisors Thrive in a Machine World?
The robots are no longer coming – they’re already here. And yes, they are after your job.
Investing Ideas
The Long View - Artificial Intelligence: It's Not the Future, It's Now
Artificial intelligence is poised to fuel the next wave of innovation, and potentially provide opportunities for companies and investors.
Investing Ideas
Trade Status: It's Complicated
Understanding the current—and potentially future—state of the global economy helps investors put market movements into context. To promote that understanding, researchers from Vanguard Investment Strategy Group examine the economic trends that affect the investing environment.
Behavioral Finance
Behavioral Advisor: Reframing Performance with Better Charts
Some charts emphasize volatility, timing, and emotionally charged events, distorting how we view performance and hurting the real long-term probability of a successful outcome.
Active/Passive Management
Debunking Active Management Myths: Part 1
To give investors the highest likelihood of beating the benchmark, you need to find outperforming managers. And then you need to give your strategy time to pay off.
Client Relationships
Building My Practice: How to Reach Female Investors
The founder of Cathy Pareto and Associates Inc. provides advice for her peers who want to reach out to women.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Vanguard's Framework for Constructing Globally Diversified Portfolios
This research paper discusses creating and maintaining globally diversified portfolios and shares a framework you can use to build portfolios around clients' investment goals and constraints.
Behavioral Finance
Behavioral Advisor: Why Expected Returns Matter Most
The current emphasis on low volatility and non-correlated multi-asset portfolios, created by blending equities, bonds and alternatives, can lead to unnecessary over-diversification and result in significant underperformance for long-term investors.
Behavioral Finance
From Plan to Portfolio
Advisors integrating planning into their practices face new challenges. Of critical importance is the advisor’s ability to translate client needs into financial solutions and to communicate how those solutions meet their goals. Needs-based planning builds confidence in the advisor and helps clients avoid costly emotional decisions which can sabotage long-term results.
Philanthropy
Incorporating Goodwill: Five Ways To Pay It Forward
If you’re thinking about a corporate philanthropy program at your company, luckily, some of the best ways to give back in your professional life are actually right in front of you.