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The benefits of true diversification
A key portfolio goal should be to reduce outcome variation. This is the basis for true diversification, mixing uncorrelated asset classes and strategies.
Helping clients navigate volatile and changing markets
Advisor Larry Mathis believes rules-based strategies and active management can play an important role in managing volatility and risk in client portfolios.
Correcting five common misconceptions about TAMPs
Outsourced investment management is crucial for advisory practices, but many advisors still lack a clear understanding of a TAMP’s role and capabilities.
Addressing 13 important wealth-management issues for retirement clients
Advisor Kurt Zoeller’s process helps clients analyze 13 key planning issues, including accumulating, protecting, distributing, and transferring their wealth.
Connecting financial goals to personal values
Advisor James Kraatz says the cornerstone of his firm’s investment philosophy is aligning investment strategies with clients’ beliefs and values.
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How AI is reshaping the landscape of financial planning
AI could transform today’s best practices in financial planning and wealth management. Industry experts share their insights on the AI landscape.
How gold can help in creating a more optimal portfolio allocation
Investors concerned about capital preservation in times of risk—and optimized returns in favorable times—should consider gold as a portfolio element.
An interesting footnote to ‘Sell in May and go away’
Results from May to October are better when SPX hits an all-time high in May than in the totality of all years. Should we rethink “Sell in May and go away”?
Will 20th-century investment strategies meet 21st-century longevity needs?
Advanced health care continues to extend life expectancies. Will 20th-century investment strategies meet the longevity needs of today’s retiree population?
How does today’s stock market compare to the 2000 tech bubble?
New tech fueled the bull market that peaked in the early 2000s. Does today’s tech-driven stock market resemble that era’s tech bubble?
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Are clients fully prepared to fund their post-retirement dreams?
Research shows that while many are contemplating what they will enjoy doing in retirement, they aren’t fully factoring in the expense of their activities.
An ‘enlightened’ planning philosophy in guiding clients
Advisor Diana Avery uses an “enlightened” planning approach, explaining to clients that their money is a tool to help them achieve what is important.
Building a client base by ‘knocking on every door’
Advisor Louis Rivera says he built his practice “the old-fashioned way,” seeking every opportunity to introduce his services to members of his community.
The yield curve’s 15-month lag
Today’s complacency may stem from misunderstanding the timing of a yield-curve inversion’s effects, which appear after about 15 months, not immediately.
How advisors articulate the benefits of financial planning
Successful advisors discuss how they communicate the wealth-building and behavioral benefits of financial planning with their clients.
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Promoting the benefits of working with an independent financial advisor
Rusty Woods is an investment advisor representative (IAR) affiliated with Enterprise Financial Network, based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Raleigh, North Carolina. He is a registered representative of Cambridge Investment Research Inc. With over 29 years of experience in the financial-services industry, Mr. Woods focuses on addressing the investment, risk-management, and retirement-planning needs of his clients.
Mr. Woods takes pride in his career as an independent financial advisor, serving the needs of clients with solutions that have helped improve their financial lives. He shares a brochure with prospective clients that outlines many of the benefits of working with an independent advisor, which includes the following points:
- An independent financial professional “is not an employee of an investment or financial services firm—they are an independent business owner. They have the freedom to structure their business in a manner that best serves their clients.”
- Independent financial professionals “can offer non-proprietary products from a wide variety of companies.” They can “provide investment advice and holistic financial and retirement planning guidance without expectations to sell proprietary products.”
- “In an independent model, the financial professional, investment firm, and clearing and custody firm are all separate entities that are regulated and work together to serve the needs of the investing client.”
- Clients can “choose to interact with [an] independent financial professional through a fee-based or commission relationship, or both, based on [their] financial needs.”
- The freedom and flexibility afforded to an independent financial professional allows for the development of customized, needs-based financial and investment plans for clients—not relying on prepackaged alternatives.
