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Goals/Needs-Based Investing
It’s personal: The growing need for financial wellness programs
78% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, 43% of student loan borrowers are not making payments and nearly half of all employees can’t cover a $400 emergency. In an effort to help employees understand and improve their personal financial health, many plan sponsors and their advisors are turning to workplace financial wellness programs. Phyllis Klein is a senior director at Captrust Financial Advisors, a firm that specializes in institutional advisory work. In this episode, Phyllis discusses the benefits and challenges of helping employers implement financial wellness programs for their employees.
Investing Ideas
Video game industry goes for the win
As a kid growing up in Bettendorf, Iowa, Capital Group equity analyst Nathan Meyer had two passions: sports and video games. “There wasn’t much else to do in Bettendorf,” he says of the small, rural town about 170 miles west of Chicago.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Risk management: Life insurance
Talking about life insurance as part of a financial plan isn’t always easy, but it is important. What steps can you take to ensure these difficult conversations make it into your client’s financial plan?
Client Life Events
Millennials are just getting started
Millennials' biggest impact on consumption and housing will come in the years ahead.
Client Experience
What Money Matters Keep Wealth Creators Up at Night?
Debt, children's education, dream business, vacation home, retirement. Wealth creators know that smart money decisions hinge upon prioritizing financial goals that compete for a finite amount of dollars. Yet, even for HNW primary income earners, it can be challenging to prepare for the future when money is still addressing the past.
Investing Ideas
What is ELB?
As global market rates move closer to zero, policymakers confront what "effective lower bound'' is for the Fed's benchmark rate.
Investing Ideas
Are International equities worth a look?
Beaten-down valuations are creating potentially attractive opportunities in the eurozone.
Tax Management
Your words matter! Especially when it comes to TAXES.
Russell Investments has crossed an important milestone with our Tax-Managed Model Strategies. We now have a 15+ year track record to talk about. One thing is very apparent: taxes are hard and the differences between approaches vary wildly.
Client Experience
The Burdens Executives Feel as Primary Breadwinners
When having it all isn't really enough. Our research dove into the challenges HNW primary breadwinners of both genders face. Learn what feels true for this cohort.
Client Experience
The High Wire Act
Making gender assumptions about your executive male clients may be as risky as making assumptions about their female counterparts. Understanding their responsibilities outside the office can be a key differentiator for you.
Client Experience
3 Things Advisors Should Stop Assuming About HNW Women
Be careful about the assumptions you make about female investors. Pink is a color -- not a service model for HNW primary breadwinner women. Find what our research of these women revealed.