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Business Development
Three keys to team meetings that inspire action
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Bryan Powell, Senior Director, Practice Management, outlines three concepts that can help heads of advisory teams lead more effectively.
Client Life Events
It’s time to have “The [estate planning] Talk”
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Fretting about how to broach the subject of wealth transfer with your parents? You’re not alone. Wealth Strategist Ben Rizzuto offers suggestions on how to make “The Talk” a little easier and more productive.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Successful charitable giving plans start with “why”
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Wealth Strategist Ben Rizzuto discusses the importance of understanding the motivations behind investors’ charitable giving aims and how advisors can help clients clarify and achieve their goals.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Regrets, I’ve had a few: 7 common financial regrets (and how to avoid them)
Curated content for RIAs.
Retirement Director Ben Rizzuto explains how we can learn from the regrets of others to better prepare for the future and shares seven steps to help ensure we don’t lament our past financial decisions.
Retirement
Plan advisors: 5 topics to discuss at your year-end investment committee meeting
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Retirement Director Ben Rizzuto outlines five topics – including recent defined contribution developments and ideas for engaging plan participants – that advisors can discuss at upcoming year-end investment committee meetings.
Retirement
Plan Talk: Analyzing risks and opportunities in today’s plan menu lineups
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In this episode of Plan Talk, Retirement Director Ben Rizzuto speaks with Damien Comeaux, Senior Portfolio Strategist, about how the Portfolio Construction and Strategy (PCS) team analyzes plan menu lineups to help ensure they provide adequate diversification.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
“Are We There Yet?” How to Stay on Track Until the Bear Market Is Over
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While we can’t predict when the current bear market will end, we can prepare ourselves for the journey that lies ahead. Retirement Director Ben Rizzuto discusses how, as with any long road trip, having the right supplies can help us stay on course to our destination – despite the inevitable detours.
Business Development
Financial Knowledge, Investment Advice and Trading Discretion: New Research
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Head of Defined Contribution and Wealth Advisor Services Matt Sommer helped conduct a survey that explored the relationship between financial knowledge and the decision to seek investment advice and grant trading discretion. The results have significant implications for how financial professionals engage with clients.