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Client Life Events
Who will be your caregiver?
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The demands placed on the health care system and the need for long-term care options continue to rise. The question of whether Americans have adequately prepared for their future health and long-term care needs will be answered in the coming years as a wave of baby boomers retire.
Client Life Events
The family conversation you should not avoid: How to discuss your legacy
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Everyone needs to take time to consider what they are leaving behind. What is left behind is often far more than can be measured in monetary terms. In addition to material worldly assets, a person leaves behind a legacy representing their values, plans, beliefs and cherished memories.
Client Life Events
Financial concerns of women
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Women have made incredible strides, both professionally and personally, in the last half-century. Despite the professional and financial successes that women in the workplace have earned in recent generations, they are still facing personal issues and unresolved challenges.
Client Life Events
The aging economy
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People are living longer than ever before. However, while advances in medicine, health, nutrition and fitness have extended the lifespan of Americans, the number of years they spend in retirement has not changed much over the last generation because they are also working longer.
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 Life Events
Happily never after: Advising clients through a divorce
Going through a divorce is a stressful and emotional endeavor. For many, it’s also the single largest financial event they will experience in their life. Yet, many people don’t receive the proper guidance when it comes to separating assets.
Advisor Value & Fees
What am I paying you for: The evolving pricing models of advice
Change is on the horizon when it comes to fee structures, and this has many advisors and advisory firms at a crossroads. Today’s episode is all about how advisors should think about the topics of charging fees to clients – commissions, retainers, and all other sorts of models.
Business Development
Purpose-led productivity: Achieving more with less
Time is a limited resource, and as a financial advisor, you have an increasing number of demands for your time. On this episode, we discuss productivity in many forms. We look at productivity through technology, systems, mindsets, and even personal habits and routines.
Client Life Events
Money mindset: Suddenly single
In this episode, our discussion focuses on a large and growing demographic: middle-aged people who find themselves “suddenly single” after years, if not decades, of marriage.
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.
Philanthropy
Creating a lasting impact through financial education and mentorship
As financial professionals, we think about objectively managing finances almost every day. But for many, a lack of financial education makes this a difficult and intimidating task.