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Client Life Events
A Question of Special Needs: How Much Do We Need to Fund a Special Needs Plan?
Unabridged white paper covering the multitude of considerations for funding a special needs plan.
Client Life Events
Beneficiary Planning Case Study
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Naming a loved one with special needs as a beneficiary could have an unintended impact on their eligibility for government benefits.
Client Life Events
Government Benefits Guide
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An easy-to-follow roadmap to government benefits for special needs planning and tips on how to incorporate those benefits into your strategy.
Client Life Events
Asset Transfer and Legacy Planning
As you prepare for the greatest wealth transfer in history, deepening client relationships across generations will be essential to the long-term health of your business. Discover insights on family dynamics and a tool to help you develop a strategy for key clients.
Client Life Events
Special Needs Planning Checklist
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Confidently checking all of the boxes means individuals with special needs and caregivers can plan for a better future.
Behavioral Finance
6 behaviors that predict future wealth
For many years, the prevailing advisory remuneration model has led financial advisors to look at just one variable – investable assets – when deciding whether or not to work with a client.
Behavioral Finance
Giving advice that sticks
The numbers aren’t pretty. According to a 2016 study conducted by Northwestern Mutual, 62% of Americans do not have a financial advisor of any kind. And while not getting any advice is inadvisable, the numbers are bleak even within the cohort who are paying a professional.
Behavioral Finance
The Do’s and Don’ts for Periods of Market Volatility
We know it has been a stressful week for everyone involved in the market. In times like this, knowing what not to do is just as important as knowing what to do.
Behavioral Finance
Keeping Emotions in Check – A Historical Guide to Market Volatility
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One of the biggest challenges in investing is to stay focused and on course. Investors must look at the markets from a historical perspective for broader context, and to better understand why it is important to stay the course during both calm and perilous markets.
Sustainable Investing
Jim Patrick on the Future of Impact
Jim Patrick provides his insights on the future of impact investing at the Envestnet Advisor Summit.
Sustainable Investing
Societal Impact vs. Financial Return: A Case of “Either/Or” No More
Many investors who find impact investing potentially appealing have at the same time struggled with a notion that investing for the “greater good” will always be “concessionary,” that is, accompanied by some loss of financial performance.