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2022 Highlights — The Top 22 Nerd’s Eye View Blog Posts You Might Have Missed

Nerd's Eye View

As 2022 comes to a close, I am once again so thankful to all of you, the ever-growing number of readers who continue to regularly visit this Nerd’s Eye View Blog (and share the content with your friends and colleagues, which we greatly appreciate!). In the meantime, I hope you're having a safe and happy holiday season. Read More.

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Adviser links: a winning model

Abnormal Returns

standarddeviationspod.com) Compliance Jason Zweig, "In 30 years of writing about the financial-advice industry, I never learned that advisers can provide less-comprehensive disclosures than stockbrokers." financial-planning.com) How Morningstar ($MORN) Wealth is getting into the direct indexing game.

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Video: Tales from the Dark Side

The Big Picture

It Should Be Easy to Get Affordable Financial Advice: Ritholtz. Source: Bloomberg , August 30th, 2022. Previously : Tales from the Dark Side (August 26, 2022). A further discussion of last week’s Tales from the Dark Side. The post Video: Tales from the Dark Side appeared first on The Big Picture.

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How Marketing With The CFP Marks Reduces Client Acquisition Costs And Accelerates Revenue Growth

Nerd's Eye View

According to the 2022 Kitces Research study, “How Financial Planners Actually Market Their Services”, advisors without the CFP marks typically spend more of their time on marketing activities relative to CFP practitioners (allowing them to spend more time on higher-value tasks). Read More.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Jan 21-22)

Nerd's Eye View

While it remains to be seen whether the measures will actually be enacted, proposed measures include raising income and capital gains tax rates, instituting wealth taxes, and reducing the state estate tax exemption, potentially creating future planning opportunities for advisors with clients in those states.

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Announcing IAR Ethics CE Day And The State Of The (Nerd’s Eye View) Blog

Nerd's Eye View

has increasingly made financial services products available directly to consumers, financial advisors have focused more and more on the business of financial advice itself. But as technology (in particular, the internet!)

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Midyear Outlook 2022 | Navigating Turbulence | July 12, 2022

James Hendries

We may not be flying into a storm, but there’s been plenty of turbulence the first part of 2022. How businesses, households, and central banks steer through the rough air will set the tone for markets over the second half of 2022. The sources of turbulence are clear.