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Client Experience
How to Host Extraordinary Client Experiences
While the retirement seminar may have served you well in the past, they may not help you stand out in the future. To attract, retain and grow your client base you’ll need events that are designed around your clients’ passions.
Investing Ideas
Much Maligned Bank Loans Deserve a Closer Look
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Bank loans, supported by both fundamental and technical factors, appear to offer relative value despite some risks.
Investing Ideas
Strategas Insight: Handicapping the Outlook for US-Sino Trade Negotiations
Market pundits have doubted this bull market every step of the way. Each pullback put into evidence that the cycle had reached its endgame; each recovery off the lows furthered the disequilibrium caused by monetary malfeasance. And yet, not more than two weeks ago the market stood as high as it ever has.
Advisor Value & Fees
Putting a Value on Your Value: Quantifying Advisor's Alpha
This updated research paper delves into the concept of Vanguard Advisor's Alpha®, which outlines how you can add value, or alpha, through relationship-based services such as financial planning, discipline, and guidance, rather than by trying to outperform the market.
Children & College Savings
Learn How To Teach Your Kids About Money
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This guide helps your clients teach their children good money management skills with practical tips they can use whether their kids are preschoolers or college-bound.
Advisor Value & Fees
Why work with a financial advisor?
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Advisors can assist you in a full 360-degree spectrum of wealth planning, from investments, to managing your portfolio through different life changes, to retirement and estate planning, as well as guidance on potential tax implications of your investments—in order to help you work toward your financial goals.
Advisor Value & Fees
2019 Value of an Advisor Study
In our competitive industry many advisors are challenged with articulating their value proposition which leads to lower client satisfaction and retention. Clients are often evaluating their advisors based simply on investment returns. This study will examine the value clients receive from a relationship with an advisor.
Investing Ideas
Goldilocks and the Bears—Innovation, Disruption, and the End of the “Virtuous” Cycle
The low‑growth, low‑inflation, and high‑disruption world we live in today is constantly on my mind. What does this mean for us as investors in this era? As we’ve written about this before, I would highlight this analysis is like predicting the outcome of a football game at halftime. Much of this has already happened.