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The Case for Real Assets: Staying Ahead of Inflation
Investors’ real rate of return = Nominal rate of return – Inflation rate. Learn about how inflation can affect your clients' real assets.
Client Experience
Market Volatility and Recessions 101
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While you can't control market volatility, there are actions you can take to potentially minimize its impact on your retirement savings. Having a plan in place for a recession or market downturn may help give you confidence to weather the storm and keep working toward your long-term retirement goals.
Client Experience
Creative Planning for Taxes and Distributions
Increase your expertise in tax and distribution planning. Manage multiple sources of income for optimal tax outcome. Take another look at Roth conversions, QCDs, and 529 plans. Consult with CPAs and other tax professionals.
Advisor Value & Fees
The Big Reveal Podcast Series: Season 1
Suzanne Siracuse asks the questions nobody else asks, as expert guest and expert interviewer collide in her new and truly unique podcast series The Big Reveal.
Client Experience
Valuation: The Key to Understanding Past and Expected Returns
All investment strategies will experience times of underperformance. If investors trade out of a portfolio after it underperforms, they lock in those losses—something that can destroy wealth over time. Often periods of underperformance are followed by rebounds. But when might an investor expect a portfolio to rebound?
Alternative Investments
Understanding Gold: An Expensive Insurance Policy?
One of the most significant investment winners year-to-date in 2020 has been gold. What is behind the sudden interest in the yellow metal? We look at the history of gold as an investment and what may have been driving the rise in the price of gold in 2020.