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Financial Planning Tips For Advisors with Special Needs Clients

BlueMind

Hence, providing financial advice for special needs clients is a specific niche that requires that financial advisors are well aware of the specifics required to fulfill the eligibility criteria of various benefits in order to best facilitate their special needs clients.

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Get a job as a Financial Paraplanner at an RIA firm and ignore the schmucky wirehouse and insurance jobs!

Sara Grillo

In addition to that, he cold called 100-150 financial planning companies around Atlanta looking for a paraplanning role but these fee-only RIA firms (what he wanted) were small and hired very infrequently. This was in 2011 when remote work wasn’t yet popular, so he was limited to the city where he lived.

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Does being a fiduciary financial advisor REALLY matter – or is it “meh?”

Sara Grillo

I have a newsletter in which I talk about financial advisor lead generation topics which is best described as “fun and irreverent.” I am an irreverent and fun marketing consultant for financial advisors. Why is the fiduciary standard important in financial advice? What is a conflict of interest in financial advice?

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Three Months of Slacking

Mr. Money Mustache

How could Mr. Money Mustache, a reliable stalwart of bossy financial advice since 2011 and usually good for at least one post per month, have drifted so far from his original dedication? That’s an entire quarter of a year that I have let this wonderful, golden field of interesting opportunities and people sit untended.

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Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS): Explaining the Gain Exclusion

Darrow Wealth Management

It is not personal legal/tax/financial advice or an exhaustive discussion of the exclusion. By now you know we don’t provide legal or tax advice, but we do help clients build a team of tax/legal specialists to tackle issues around company stock. This article is meant to be an easily-digestible introduction to QSBS.

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Recency Bias!!!

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

stocks and Emerging Markets stocks: 2008 and 2011. Large caps beat the foreign stock categories yet still lost thirty-seven percent of their value, while 2011 was the only year where U.S. Oh, I forgot to mention it finished dead last in 2008 and 2011. Large Caps outperformed both Developed ex-U.S. Sounds unstoppable, right?

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Transcript: Howard Lindzon

The Big Picture

If you were alive and writing checks in 2006 to 2011. LINDZON: Tries to meet Twitter’s quarter in 2011 comes home with like a 30 mil. So to think that… RITHOLTZ: This is not financial advice, you can say it on the air. LINDZON: This is not financial advice. RITHOLTZ: Hard not to make money. LINDZON: Correct.

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