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Retirement
Plan advisors: 5 topics to discuss at your year-end investment committee meeting
Curated content for RIAs.
Retirement Director Ben Rizzuto outlines five topics – including recent defined contribution developments and ideas for engaging plan participants – that advisors can discuss at upcoming year-end investment committee meetings.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
“Are We There Yet?” How to Stay on Track Until the Bear Market Is Over
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While we can’t predict when the current bear market will end, we can prepare ourselves for the journey that lies ahead. Retirement Director Ben Rizzuto discusses how, as with any long road trip, having the right supplies can help us stay on course to our destination – despite the inevitable detours.
Business Development
Financial Knowledge, Investment Advice and Trading Discretion: New Research
Curated content for RIAs.
Head of Defined Contribution and Wealth Advisor Services Matt Sommer helped conduct a survey that explored the relationship between financial knowledge and the decision to seek investment advice and grant trading discretion. The results have significant implications for how financial professionals engage with clients.
Behavioral Finance
Understanding the Motivations for Personalized Sustainable Investing
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Approaches that promote a more sustainable society and economy align to a given client’s personal view—and it’s important for an advisor to understand each client’s objectives and preferences.
Client Life Events
Lessons in Behavioral Finance: Bequest Intentions and Expectations of Older Adults
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You’re invited to join Janus Henderson’s lead behavioral finance research and wealth strategies expert, Matt Sommer, Ph.D., CFA, CFP, as he helps financial professionals answer three key questions about wealth transfer and how the relationship between children and parents affects bequest intentions.
Manager & Investment Selection
MONEYBALL INVESTING: THE REAL REASON SWINGING FOR THE FENCES IS BAD FOR YOUR PORTFOLIO
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One of the more iconic scenes in the movie, Moneyball, involves the baseball scouts discussing various players’ abilities. They note a player’s “classy” swing and then move on to his girlfriend’s looks for an assessment of his in-game proficiency. It’s both darkly humorous and a sly indictment of the flawed mechanics by which scouts judge players.