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The Case for Real Assets: Staying Ahead of Inflation
Investors’ real rate of return = Nominal rate of return – Inflation rate. Learn about how inflation can affect your clients' real assets.
Human Capital
Six Keys to Extraordinary Teamwork
Curated content for RIAs.
Whether you are building, joining or looking to improve your financial advisory team, the goal should be to create something that adds up to more than the sum of its parts. Michael Futterman, Head of Knowledge Labs® Professional Development, outlines six considerations that are critical to establishing a healthy team dynamic.
Retirement
Client Presentation: Social Security - Get What's Yours
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Talk to clients about how they could get the most out of their Social Security benefit.
Human Capital
Turning Stress Awareness into Action
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Lindsay Troxell, Senior Director, Knowledge Labs® Professional Development, explains how recognizing and managing our short-term reactions to stress can help prevent its harmful long-term impacts on our health and well-being.
Manager & Investment Selection
MONEYBALL INVESTING: THE REAL REASON SWINGING FOR THE FENCES IS BAD FOR YOUR PORTFOLIO
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One of the more iconic scenes in the movie, Moneyball, involves the baseball scouts discussing various players’ abilities. They note a player’s “classy” swing and then move on to his girlfriend’s looks for an assessment of his in-game proficiency. It’s both darkly humorous and a sly indictment of the flawed mechanics by which scouts judge players.
Alternative Investments
What is a Hedged Equity?
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Simple, straight-forward explanation of a fast-growing sub-category of investment strategies.
Retirement
Can I invest my IRA in this?
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Alternative assets, such as cryptocurrencies, art, private equity and more, have seen a surge in press coverage over the past decade, to the point that many of these alternative investments have become more mainstream than ever before.
Alternative Investments
Gimme shelter
Demand for houses is likely to remain strong, pushing up prices and benefitting builders.