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Philanthropy
Charitable Giving: Three Steps to a Successful Plan
This Vanguard research paper examines the advantages and disadvantages of common charitable giving strategies, and it presents examples to show their effects.
Manager & Investment Selection
High Conviction: Creating Multi-Asset Portfolios Designed to Achieve Investors' Objectives
Explore three different case studies that illustrate specific ways in which active and factor-based strategies can be combined.
Behavioral Finance
Behavioral Advisor: Use Needs Rather than Fear for Allocation
Risk tolerance can result in poor risk management, significant misallocation of resources and a high degree of anxiety. AthenaInvest suggests using a needs-based planning instead.
Behavioral Finance
Trust and Financial Advice
Vanguard researchers break down strategies advisors can use to build greater trust with their clients.
Behavioral Finance
Behavioral Advisor: Look Beyond Cost For Active Management
Focus on low-cost equity mutual funds has increased dramatically in the past decade. While cost matters, mutual funds should be evaluated based on what investors get for the price they pay.
Children & College Savings
Making the Case for College Savings
This piece is approved to use with clients.
American Funds provides resources to answer common client concerns and demonstrate how a 529 plan can help your clients pursue their college-savings goals.
Behavioral Finance
Diversification: The Power of Winning by Not Losing
Just as we laud improbable and memorable athletic achievements without adequately accounting for risk and counterfactuals, we do likewise with large and singular financial events.
Business Development
The Four Fatal Assumptions We've Heard in 20 Years of Practice Management
Avoid falling prey to four of the most shortsighted assumptions many advisors make—and which Russell believes prohibit them from reaching their full potential.
Business Development
15 Questions to Help Smooth Your Succession Transition
Planning a smooth succession requires significant preparation, including detailed role clarity and intentional communication. Here are 15 questions to help get you there.
Philanthropy
Micro-Finance Philanthropy and Financial Advisors
If you’re looking for new and exciting ways to engage in philanthropic causes, there are some worthwhile opportunities to review in the specialized world of micro-financing.
Children & College Savings
Expand Your Practice With 529 College Savings Plans
For many advisors, college savings represents an untapped practice-building opportunity. Learn how successful advisors use it to cultivate client interest and build a bigger client base.
Behavioral Finance
Being Okay Can Help You Reach Your Goals
Simply being “okay” is often considered to be somewhat unsatisfying. Brinker Capital explains why okay is a good thing.