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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.
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
This piece is approved to use with clients.
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.
Philanthropy
Investor Education: Learn About Charitable Giving
This piece is approved to use with clients.
Use this practical guide to complement discussions you have with clients about philanthropy.
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.
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.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
4 Stages of the Lifecycle of Advice
While anticipating what the future of financial advising might look like can be helpful, it’s more important to be part of the catalyst driving the change by leveraging advanced technology to offer smarter, quicker, more tailored advice.
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.
Retirement
From Assets to Income: A Goals-Based Approach to Retirement Spending
Understand Vanguard's approach to spending and saving in retirement without relying on guaranteed sources of income.