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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (August 10-11)

Nerd's Eye View

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" – this week's edition kicks off with the news that a recent survey indicates that clients of financial advisors are more confident than others about their financial preparedness for retirement and are more likely to have a financial plan in place that can weather the ups (..)

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (August 24-25)

Nerd's Eye View

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" - this week's edition kicks off with the news that a new study indicates that while financial advisory firms are largely satisfied with their tech stacks, they take a range of approaches to applying tech: from "innovators" that invest in tech to differentiate themselves from (..)

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (June 22-23)

Nerd's Eye View

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" – this week's edition kicks off with the news that affluent Americans believe they need an average of $5.5 million in assets to both retire and pass on a legacy interest (though many have yet to establish an estate plan), according to a recent survey.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (June 8-9)

Nerd's Eye View

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" - this week's edition kicks off with the news that recent surveys indicate that consumers continue to trust human financial advisors more than Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered tools.

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Top Estate Planning Resources for Financial Planners

eMoney Advisor

As a financial planner, you may also dread conversations about “getting affairs in order” for a client. You never know when you’ll encounter that portion of the population that would rather get a root canal than make an estate plan. A bit less than half of U.S. 1 Death Over Dinner.

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Tax Advisor Q&A: How to Build Better Tax Client Relationships Through Life Event Planning

Harness Wealth

Only 26% of Americans have an estate plan. If you’re thinking, “But my clients are high-net-worth…many more have an estate plan.” And you’ll see in our Q&A below, that tax advisors can bring estate planning into the conversation early on in a client relationship.

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3 Celebrity Estate Planning Slipups Clients Can Learn From

eMoney Advisor

What can we learn from celebrity estate planning disasters like this? Such cautionary tales prove the value of proper planning. With 63 percent of Americans making $80,000-plus a year saying they “just haven’t gotten around” to estate planning, there’s plenty of room for improvement in that department.