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Fixed Income Insights
Jackson®: Power Planning: The Multi-Generational Benefits of Trust-Owned Annuities
Today’s global economy and volatile markets create challenges for trustees who are tasked with driving growth, preserving capital, and managing the everpresent sting of taxes and expenses in trust–owned portfolios. Did you know that trusts can benefit from the same features that individuals find in annuities? Namely, tax deferral,* income control, and diversified investment options. On the next few pages, we’re going to walk through three phases of trust planning (accumulation, distribution, and post-death planning) and show the many ways that a trust-owned annuity can be a powerful planning tool.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Nationwide: Valuing annuity benefits for required minimum distribution and Roth conversions purposes
When deferred annuities are owned by qualified accounts these guarantees must be taken into account when calculating required
minimum distributions (RMD) and the taxable amount of a Roth IRA conversion.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Nationwide: The position of life insurance in financial diversification
The importance of a diversified portfolio
Leveraging Technology & Data
The Digital Investor: Financial attention through multiple digital channels
A new Vanguard paper explores clients' use of digital channels—desktop or laptop computers, mobile phone, and mobile apps—to interact with their financial institutions and breaks down how digital use has changed over time.
Fixed Income Insights
Municipal Perspectives: Sometimes the Slow Lane is Faster
In Vanguard municipal perspectives for the second quarter of 2018, Chris Alwine, head of Vanguard Municipal Group, and Edward J. Saracino, senior product manager, explain why our portfolio managers are reducing risk in our municipal funds.
Leveraging Technology & Data
The Future of the Decision Making Process for the Financial Services Industry
Financial institutions (FIs) and wealth management firms need to be focused on analytics for good reason: Data analytics provide the deep level of business intelligence that firms require to identify the largest growth opportunities as well as their biggest risks.
Behavioral Finance
Trust and Financial Advice
Vanguard researchers break down strategies advisors can use to build greater trust with their clients.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Vanguard's Framework for Constructing Globally Diversified Portfolios
This research paper discusses creating and maintaining globally diversified portfolios and shares a framework you can use to build portfolios around clients' investment goals and constraints.