Want To Overturn Regulation Best Interest? Sue The SEC
Joining seven states and the District of Columbia, the XY Planning Network is suing the SEC, claiming that Regulation Best Interest...
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Say It Proud: I’m An “Adviser” – Because Clients Love It
We bring you an interesting survey from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Virginia, which examined how people...
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La, La, Live for Today – Don’t Postpone Joy for Retirement
We’ve never been happy with the ‘thought leader’ construction – the concept makes sense, we just don’t like the jargon. A clumsy...
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Financial Therapy: Helping People Change Bad Money Habits
Money is a curious thing: most people would dearly like to have it, all the while knowing that it can bring big problems. Anxiety...
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The Big-4 Tax Issues for Retirees
Retirement is usually anticipated as a time of greater leisure, lower stress and indeed, hardly a care. After a life of hard labor...
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Fortune Telling: Reading Your Prospects’ Thoughts
When prospecting for clients, how much easier would it be if you could read their minds? Our featured author believes you can. He...
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Keep What You Got: Survey Shows Affluent Crave Wealth Conservation
Here’s a sign of the times: RBC Wealth Management recently hired The Economist Intelligence Unit to survey wealthy subjects to...
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Long-Term Care Insurance for Peace of Mind – and a Tax Break
People who plan to live a long and happy life – a globe-spanning majority, we wager – must consider that at some point, they’re...
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The 4Q Dash: Tips on Revving Up Your Practice Before Year-End
The podcast, “How Goes the Behavior-Change Revolution?” provides insights to help your firm accomplish one primary goal before year...
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Earning the Friendship and Trust of Rich Acquaintances
In our line of work, it’s vital to socialize. It’s a sensitive topic for some, but we’ll sing it out clear: mixing with the...
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Breaking the Language Barrier in Wealth Management
For business people globally, fluency in the English language makes everything easier. We once had a colleague who spoke fluent...
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Smackdown: 529 vs Retirement Account
It’s probably safe to say that absolutely NO ONE has ever voluntarily paid more tax than they have to. So if we only pay what we...
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Advisory Expertise: Handling Sudden Death Without a Plan
It happens all the time: a family’s breadwinner dies suddenly without an estate plan. Suffering the pain of loss, the survivors are...
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Walt Had a Vision: How to Market Like Disney
Jarrod Upton, chief operations and senior consultant with Herbers & Company, sounds like a square guy – we mean that in the...
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They Ain’t Green But They’re Gold: Managing Digital Assets
There’s a problem with digital assets: nearly everyone owns them and their value can be substantial. Yet they’re so new as an asset...
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Regulating Insurance Isn’t States’ Strong Suit
Unlike much of the investment business—supervised at the federal level—insurers are almost entirely overseen by individual states...
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