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How financial advisers get it wrong when discussing insurance with clients

From InvestmentNews
Added on November 2016 in Plan for the Future
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Summary: Imagine this. A (prospective) client has a significant investment in a particular asset. You receive notice that the costs being charged inside this product are being increased. In addition, this notice includes forward guidance downgrading future interest earnings expectations by 50 basis points and cautioning that interest earnings expectations could be further reduced by as much as another 100 basis points. 

Niche Marketing on LinkedIn

From WealthManagement.com
Added on November 2016 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: When someone asks us a question about niche marketing, one of our first thoughts is LinkedIn. Whether they’re targeting a certain company, an industry, a profession or demographic, LinkedIn is a great place to start. It helps you find niche prospects, determine your connections to them, and helps you market to them.

Use Automation, Checklists to Create Efficiencies

From ThinkAdvisor
Added on November 2016 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: It’s been a long time since David Edwards, president of Heron Financial Group, has had to code anything. But in the years since he stopped working in IT (he began his career in systems at Morgan Stanley in the 1980s), Edwards has never forgotten certain key principles, notably the importance of having in place a system that lends itself toward creating efficiency.

Firms Increasingly Worried About DOL Fiduciary Rule

From Financial Advisor IQ
Added on November 2016 in Thought Leadership
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Summary: Advisor concern about the Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule keeps rising, according to a recent survey by Fidelity Institutional Asset Management.

A new president and fiduciary: What happens next?

From OnWallStreet
Added on November 2016 in Form an RIA
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Summary: Predictably, experts clash on what the impact of either a Trump or Clinton win will mean for the fiduciary rule before it is slated to go into effect on April 10. Some believe that the presidential election's effect on its implementation could extend far beyond the rule's technical boundaries to Dodd-Frank regulation — as well as to all non-retirement accounts. If that's the case, non-qualified accounts could come in for as profound a revolution as the one currently anticipated for retirement accounts.

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