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Sample Client Review Meeting Letter
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Fixed Income Insights
Neither bulls nor bears last forever
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While bull markets don’t last forever, neither do bear markets. Since 1928, the strength and duration of S&P 500® bull markets has meaningfully outweighed that of bear markets.
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Client Relationships
How advisors can influence change in client behaviors
Sometimes, simply educating people about how to save and budget isn’t enough to incentivize healthy choices with their money. There are deeper, more advanced strategies that advisors can use to help clients improve their financial security and wellness.
Fixed Income Insights
Did the Fed just go Minority Report?
We believe the Fed is taking a risk — one we hope works — in shifting from reactive to preemptive monetary policy. It was not that long ago that the Fed was more forthright about the uncertainty inherent in economic forecasting as Chairman Powell used the analogy of walking into a dark room and slowing down to avoid furniture as an analogy for the Fed’s situation. Today, they seem more certain that they know the future and aim to alter it.
Leveraging Technology & Data
Create, curate and connect: social media for advisors
Our topic today is social media – how to use it effectively as a financial advisor, why employing social media strategy is important, and some mistakes to avoid before you send out that first tweet.
Client Relationships
Money mindset: Advising millennials
This is the second of four episodes over the year where we’ll explore the “money mindset” of some unique groups that advisors serve. When most people think of millennials, they think of digital natives who spend their money on travel and love avocado toast.
Client Relationships
Leadership is learned: Leading your practice to better productivity and client engagement
Leadership in the workplace used to be largely about people management. In today’s workplace, being an effective leader involves so much more. Where should you be putting your focus so that your employees (and your clients, too) see you as a leader?
Client Relationships
Overcoming client objections
Objection handling is a communication skill that many financial advisors struggle with – whether it’s with recommendations for existing clients or prospective clients dragging their feet. How do you put established habits and status quo bias aside to overcome objections in your practice?
Client Relationships
How a high EQ can lead to sales success
Your IQ, your intellect and your hard skills get you in the door with clients and prospects. Keeping in tune with your clients over time is another task in itself, requiring you to leverage your emotional acumen to maintain success.
Retirement
Creating more precision with life expectancy planning
As life expectancy numbers continue to increase, the need for more careful and more precise financial planning for retirement has increased with it. A startup called Genivity, one of the winners of BMO's 1871 FinTech partnership program in 2017, is helping financial advisors have better conversations with their clients by incorporating health history insights into the financial planning process.
Retirement
To claim or not to claim? The Social Security question
Determining a Social Security strategy can be one of the most complicated processes that people across the U.S. face as they reach retirement. Learn the ins and outs of claiming Social Security and the role you can play in the process as a financial advisor.
Retirement
Health savings accounts: A strategic retirement tool?
With the cost of healthcare steadily rising across America, planning for this expense has become a focal point in many financial plans. Learn how investors and their advisors can turn to health savings accounts, and their tax benefits to address the specific cost in retirement.