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Wealth: Talking Money With The Next Generation
It may be a good time for young investors despite the market volatility. Plus, talking estate planning with the next generation. And, more grandparents are teaching their grandkids about money. Dow Jones Wealth Adviser’s Veronica Dagher reports. Enter your email below to receive free weekly updates that will help you to deliver better advice and [...]

Merrill Lynch’s Tips For Wealth Transfers
Advisers play a critical role in their clients’ intergenerational wealth transfers. In this video, Merrill Lynch executive Riley Etheridge tells Dow Jones’ Jennifer Cummings how advisers can help clients through this process. Enter your email below to receive free weekly updates that will help you to deliver better advice and service, and build a larger [...]

Wealth: Sell Your Single Stock Position
Now may be a good time to sell or reduce your single stock holding. Plus, succession planning for advisers. And, tips for donating alternative assets through donor-advised funds. Dow Jones Wealth Adviser’s Veronica Dagher reports. Enter your email below to receive free weekly updates that will help you to deliver better advice and service, and [...]

Industry Insights with Mel Warshaw
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Managing Angry Clients
Clients and investors are still angry. Dr. Frank Murtha gives financial advisers tips on what to say when clients vent. Enter your email below to receive free weekly updates that will help you to deliver better advice and service, and build a larger and more profitable business! Email Address Email Format html text mobile

Industry Insights with Paulina Mejia
David Lenok, Associate Legal Editor of Trusts and Estates sits down with Paulina Mejia of Atlantic Trust Private Wealth Management. Enter your email below to receive free weekly updates that will help you to deliver better advice and service, and build a larger and more profitable business! Email Address Email Format html text mobile

Kim Laughton of Schwab Charitable on Advisors & Philanthropy: Schwab Impact Video
By JOHN SULLIVAN, ADVISORONE | November 15, 2011 Your clients will be making charitable donations, especially in this time of year. The head of Schwab Charitable discusses strategies advisors can use to be part of the philanthropic process. Enter your email below to receive free weekly updates that will help you to deliver better advice and service, and [...]

Lessons Learned in Client Communications: Schwab Impact Video
What did advisors learn during the financial crisis, and how are they counseling jittery clients in these volatile times? Gurinder Ahluwalia, president and CEO of Genworth Financial Wealth Management, shares his insights during the 2011 Schwab Impact conference with John Sullivan of AdvisorOne. Enter your email below to receive free weekly updates that will help [...]

Social Media Tips & Traps For Advisers
Social media maybe a good way for advisers to get more exposure, but it could result in the wrong type of exposure if not managed correctly. Maribeth Kuzmeski, president of Red Zone Marketing, explains more to Dow Jones’ Veronica Dagher.

Tips for Becoming a Top RIA
In this sit-down with Kelli Cruz, the director of research and consulting for IN Adviser Solutions, Pershing’s Mark Tibergien discusses some of the major changes in the advisory industry – and offers suggestions on how RIAs can get the most out of their human capital. Enter your email below to receive free weekly updates that [...]
Economics & Investing
Behavioral Biases of Mutual Fund Investors (Digest Summary)
The authors examine how behavioral biases affect the mutual fund choices of individual investors. They analyze several behavioral factors that hamper decision making and detail the effects on investment performance across fund types, providing descriptive stereotypical categories for the identified psychological failings. Click here to read the full summary. Enter your email below to receive [...]
A Practical Guide to Risk Management
Managing risk is at the core of managing any financial organization. Risk measurement and quantitative tools are critical aids for supporting risk management, but quantitative tools alone are no substitute for judgment, wisdom, and knowledge. Managers within a financial organization must be, before anything else, risk managers in the true sense of managing the risks [...]
Elements of an Investment Policy Statement for Individual Investors
Elements of Investment Policy Statements for Individual Investors suggests comprehensive issues that should be accounted for in a client Investment Policy Statement. Consideration is given to investment objectives, performance requirements, risk management, and governance. Click here to read the full report. Enter your email below to receive free weekly updates that will help you to [...]
A Safer Safe Withdrawal Rate Using Various Return Distributions (Digest Summary)
The authors subject the “4 percent rule,” a common method of retirement savings liquidation, to validity testing using simulation methodology covering numerous possible scenarios. Their findings show that the rule may result in a higher failure rate than previously believed and that the safe percentage is likely to be much lower. Click here to read [...]
Portfolios for Investors Who Want to Reach Their Goals While Staying on the Mean–Variance Efficient Frontier (Digest Summary)
The authors provide evidence that investors think about their portfolios in terms of different goals with varying time frames, levels of risk tolerance, and expected returns. They propose a mental accounting portfolio theory to take advantage of how investors already think. It is a goals-based approach that combines features of mean–variance and behavioral portfolio theories. [...]
The Long Slump (Digest Summary)
Modeling the ongoing elusiveness of vigorous economic recovery from the “Great Slump” of 2007–2009, the author blames the failure to achieve the desired full employment equilibrium on the lack of interest rate adjustments. He concludes with policy suggestions for completing the turnaround. Click here to read the summary. Enter your email below to receive free [...]
Safe Savings Rates: A New Approach to Retirement Planning over the Life Cycle (Digest Summary)
The author proposes that rather than focusing on withdrawal rates, retirement planning should focus on savings rates. He uses a historical simulation approach to illustrate the principle of a safe savings rate. Click here to read the summary. Enter your email below to receive free weekly updates that will help you to deliver better advice [...]
Debt, Deficits, and Demographics
Debt, deficits, and demographics will lead to high inflation rates, costly credit, low growth rates, and weakening developed country currencies, Jason Hsu writes in a new white paper. Click here to read the white paper. Enter your email below to receive free weekly updates that will help you to deliver better advice and service, and [...]
Emerging-Market Investing — How the Pros Do It
If you think traveling in less developed countries is tough, just imagine investing there. In emerging markets, the chance to find great investments is paired with high odds of cultural misunderstanding, dealing with misleading executives and obscure laws and ownership rules. Click here to read the special report from Bloomberg. Enter your email below to [...]
Applying Asset Liability Management to Private Wealth Management
From CFA Institute Take 15 Podcast Series: Dan diBartolomeo discusses how pension fund managers have long used asset-liability management (ALM) to manage pension assets. Enter your email below to receive free weekly updates that will help you to deliver better advice and service, and build a larger and more profitable business! Email Address Email Format html [...]
Tax & Estate Planning
Planners Use Intra-Family Loans to Cut Out Middleman
In this low interest rate environment, some financial planners are advising their clients to cut the middleman out entirely with intra-family loans. Click here to read the article. Enter your email below to receive free weekly updates that will help you to deliver better advice and service, and build a larger and more profitable business! [...]
A Safer Safe Withdrawal Rate Using Various Return Distributions (Digest Summary)
The authors subject the “4 percent rule,” a common method of retirement savings liquidation, to validity testing using simulation methodology covering numerous possible scenarios. Their findings show that the rule may result in a higher failure rate than previously believed and that the safe percentage is likely to be much lower. Click here to read [...]
Using IDGTs to Create the Family Bank
An intentionally defective grantor trust provides an excellent way to acquire significant amounts of life insurance without having to worry about taxable gifts on premium payments. Click here to read the article. Enter your email below to receive free weekly updates that will help you to deliver better advice and service, and build a [...]
Safe Savings Rates: A New Approach to Retirement Planning over the Life Cycle (Digest Summary)
The author proposes that rather than focusing on withdrawal rates, retirement planning should focus on savings rates. He uses a historical simulation approach to illustrate the principle of a safe savings rate. Click here to read the summary. Enter your email below to receive free weekly updates that will help you to deliver better advice [...]
2011 Federal Tax Update
This update explains several developments in the substantive federal income, estate and gift tax laws affecting individual taxpayers and small businesses. It contains summaries of significant cases, rulings, regulations, legislation and other matters from August, 2010, through August, 2011. This update generally does not discuss developments in the areas of qualified plans or the taxation [...]
Wealth: Sell Your Single Stock Position
Now may be a good time to sell or reduce your single stock holding. Plus, succession planning for advisers. And, tips for donating alternative assets through donor-advised funds. Dow Jones Wealth Adviser’s Veronica Dagher reports. Enter your email below to receive free weekly updates that will help you to deliver better advice and service, and [...]
Your Philanthropy Roadmap
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors has put together a short guide to help affluent individuals or families get their arms around concepts of strategic giving – and to equip wealth managers with a tool for discussing philanthropy with their clients. Click here to view the guide. Enter your email below to receive free weekly updates that will [...]
IRS Offers Tips for Year-End Giving
IRS Offers Tips for Year-End Giving (IR-2011-118) (Dec. 15, 2011): Individuals and businesses making contributions to charity should keep in mind several important tax law provisions that have taken effect in recent years. Some of these changes include the following: Special Charitable Contributions for Certain IRA Owners Rules for Clothing…Click here to read the full [...]
Catch a free replay of the latest Tax Power Hour webcast
If you missed the Tax Power Hour webcast, Gearing up for Tax Season, which was held on Nov. 7, you can watch the archived version free. The webcast was loaded with helpful tips for preseason preparation, such as staffing and managing organizers. Listen today. Enter your email below to receive free weekly updates that will help you [...]
Industry Insights with Mel Warshaw
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