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Advisor Value & Fees
Is a financial advisor worth the cost?
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My grandfather came over to the U.S. from Ireland in the early 1900s. As a kid, I always remember him telling me, Nothing in this world is for free and if someone tells you otherwise, walk the other way. I was reminded of this when I recently saw online ads for free financial planning and free no cost ETFs.
Manager & Investment Selection
Is your wholesaler your BESTIE?
Have you ever called your wholesaler when you realized late in the game of planning a client event that you need additional funding?
Advisor Value & Fees
Five key ways advisors deliver value in 2019
We believe advisors have never been more valuable. For the past five years, we’ve created an annual report that holistically analyzes the real value advisors deliver to their investor clients in their portfolios, in vital services advisors provide, and this year, especially in their after-tax returns.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Do your client portfolios carry hidden baggage?
How many of your client portfolios are built on yesterday’s thinking? Our tips for an upgrade.
Tax Management
2018 Capital Gain Distributions: Won’t get fooled again
Capital gain distributions are something that investors often don’t pay attention to until late in the fourth quarter. But several events are coming together to make the tracking and monitoring of capital gain distributions a year-round exercise.
Sustainable Investing
Societal Impact vs. Financial Return: A Case of “Either/Or” No More
Many investors who find impact investing potentially appealing have at the same time struggled with a notion that investing for the “greater good” will always be “concessionary,” that is, accompanied by some loss of financial performance.
Alternative Investments
3 Reasons to Consider Infrastructure Investment
Russell Investments Client Portfolio Manager Darren Spencer makes the case for investing in infrastructure.
Active/Passive Management
Debunking Active Management Myths: Part 2
Most investors appear to be interpreting the struggles of large cap U.S. equity funds as a failure of active management in general. Russell Investments begs to differ.
Active/Passive Management
Debunking Active Management Myths: Part 1
To give investors the highest likelihood of beating the benchmark, you need to find outperforming managers. And then you need to give your strategy time to pay off.