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Portfolio Construction Insights
Model Specialists Coverage Map
Get in touch with a model specialist to learn how incorporating models, as well as technology, into your practice can help make things more transparent and uncover key areas your clients want to discuss, like risk.
Leveraging Technology & Data
Tech in Business
98% of advisors say that technology impacts their decision to join a new firm, with 70% saying it ‘significantly impacts’ that choice.
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
Retirement
5 questions about securities lending in DC
Today, with new regulations and greater transparency since the financial crisis, securities lending activity has reached its highest level in a decade with more than $19 trillion in assets available for lending globally.
Retirement
Retirement saving: Save more or take more risk?
Defined contribution plan sponsors need to help their participants manage two significant challenges: building an appropriate asset allocation and ensuring sufficient savings.
Alternative Investments
Alternative Investments: Myths & misconceptions
This piece is approved to use with clients.
A lot of misunderstanding surrounds alternative investments. Some investors still think of them as high-risk, exotic funds reserved for ultra-high-net-worth individuals and institutions. However the reality is that alternatives have a place in nearly every portfolio.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Bond ETFs: Financial Advisors Drive Use With Specialized Applications
BlackRock sponsors this Cerulli Associates report that asks 378 financial advisors about their use of bond ETFs.