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Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Unlocking your vision for success
Being a great advisor requires coaching people toward their financial aspirations. However, many advisors reach a plateau, where focusing on the clients you already have consumes all your capacity.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
It’s personal: The growing need for financial wellness programs
78% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, 43% of student loan borrowers are not making payments and nearly half of all employees can’t cover a $400 emergency. In an effort to help employees understand and improve their personal financial health, many plan sponsors and their advisors are turning to workplace financial wellness programs. Phyllis Klein is a senior director at Captrust Financial Advisors, a firm that specializes in institutional advisory work. In this episode, Phyllis discusses the benefits and challenges of helping employers implement financial wellness programs for their employees.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Risk management: Life insurance
Talking about life insurance as part of a financial plan isn’t always easy, but it is important. What steps can you take to ensure these difficult conversations make it into your client’s financial plan?
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Managing wealth for same-sex couples
Of course, working with same-sex clients is largely no different than working with any other group of clients, but in order to properly serve this community, advisors should understand the mindset, key issues, and changing laws and policies that directly impact their money and wealth.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Getting back on track: A guide to smart rebalancing
Our research team reviewed the benefits of rebalancing, analyzed the impact of different rebalancing frequencies and thresholds, and developed strategies to minimize rebalancing costs.
Children & College Savings
Learn How To Teach Your Kids About Money
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This guide helps your clients teach their children good money management skills with practical tips they can use whether their kids are preschoolers or college-bound.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Vanguard Advisor's Alpha
This Vanguard Research Insight piece explains why, when adding value is the goal, advisors may be better served by changing their performance benchmark from the market’s return to the returns that investors might achieve on their own, without professional guidance.
Children & College Savings
Investor Education: Learn About Saving for College
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Use this practical guide to help your clients learn about the cost of sending a child to college and the many savings and tuition-payment options available.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Financial Planning Perspectives: Invest Now or Temporarily Hold Your Cash
Systematic implementation—commonly referred to as dollar-cost averaging—might provide some protection against regret but at the cost of higher returns.
Children & College Savings
529 Plan Savers Earn Better Grades For Behavior
Vanguard's latest research note, 529 plan savers earn better grades for behavior, reveals that more investors are using 529s than ever before.