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Client Review Meeting Prep Life Events and Milestones Checklist
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Client Relationships
Sample Client Review Meeting Letter
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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.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Optimizing Performance and Mitigating Volatility
In this edition of Envestat, we’re taking another look at the portfolio performance and examining outliers to determine what may be driving either positive performance or underperformance.
Active/Passive Management
Our Latest Research On Active Versus Passive Asset Management
As you are likely well aware, the debate regarding active versus passive investing has existed for a while. And recently, headlines seem to increasingly indicate that active investing has run its course – most managers are failing to meet their benchmarks.
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.
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?
Sustainable Investing
Community Investing: How To Invest In The Underserved
Community investing presents a strong opportunity for direct, meaningful, and measurable impact for an investor – and can often serve as a low-risk, high-impact component of an investment portfolio – delivering social benefit alongside financial return.