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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.
Advisor Value & Fees
Putting a Value on Your Value: Quantifying Advisor's Alpha
This updated research paper delves into the concept of Vanguard Advisor's Alpha®, which outlines how you can add value, or alpha, through relationship-based services such as financial planning, discipline, and guidance, rather than by trying to outperform the market.
Business Development
5 ways to make your workplace a better place
Organizational psychologist Adam Grant shares five ideas that he believes could go a long way toward improving the sometimes contentious relationship between labor and management.
Retirement
What volatility means for retirement plan participants
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Market volatility doesn’t have to interfere with retirement outcomes. Here are three ways volatility can impact plan participants and three ways to manage it.
Leveraging Technology & Data
We all use technology, but what's the right tech strategy?
Noni Robinson, head of Bank and Institutional in Vanguard FAS, chats with Bill Martin, CIO of INTRUST Bank, about technology in the advice space.
Client Relationships
The Bid: Money talks, stress walks
Money is ranked the #1 source of stress in people’s lives, higher than physical health, work or family. But while we’re often willing to talk about the rest of these stressors, money is surrounded by taboo. How can we turn this concept into something approachable and part of cultural conversation?
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.
Philanthropy
Investor Education: Learn About Charitable Giving
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Use this practical guide to complement discussions you have with clients about philanthropy.
Philanthropy
Charitable Giving: Three Steps to a Successful Plan
This Vanguard research paper examines the advantages and disadvantages of common charitable giving strategies, and it presents examples to show their effects.
Client Relationships
Help Your Clients Understand Account Types and Compensation
With more demands on your time, having conversations with clients will be critical to determine what account types and investment plans are in their best interests.