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Business Development
Advisors are happy and that's a big deal
A majority of advisors are satisfied with their career. What this may mean for recuruiting the next generation of advisors.
Retirement
next: Millennial magnet - Attract and retain the largest generation in the U.S. workforce
In our second issue of next, we discuss how some of the factors may affect your role as a fiduciary in building effective retirement plans, including the effect changing interest rates may have on target date funds.
Business Development
Why finishing that client report may be more beneficial than your workout
Insights into the most meaningful coping strategies for stressed advisors.
Business Development
Outsourcing may not reduce stress, but you may get more done!
A look at outsourcing through the lens of FlexShares Advisor Wellness study.
Business Development
Insights into Advisor Wellness: Stress and Satisfaction Are (still) Defining Factors
A look at the results of FlexShares research on advisor wellness. The paper reveals key stressors and the divergence of those stressors based on gender, age, marital status, firm types and services offered.
Business Development
Advisor Wellness in a changing world
Insights into new research from FlexShares Advisor Wellness study.
Active/Passive Management
MYTH: Active Performs Better in Certain Market Segments
When it comes to active management, believing that active managers generally perform better in certain market segments is a myth, not a reality.
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.
Tax Management
Investor Education: Tax Efficient Investing
This piece is approved to use with clients.
Taxes can have a significant impact on your clients' investment returns. This guide helps them understand the importance of building and maintaining a tax-efficient portfolio.
Active/Passive Management
Investor Education: Learn About Active and Index Fund Investing
This piece is approved to use with clients.
Help your clients get a better understanding of the differences between index investing and active investing, and the merits of each approach.
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.
Client Life Events
Investor Education: Learn About Caring For an Elderly Parent
This piece is approved to use with clients.
This guide helps clients manage common eldercare challenges and become familiar with care options. It also includes a list of websites clients can use to make informed eldercare decisions.