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Morningstar Office To Shut Down And Push Advisors To Black Diamond (And More Of The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech – March 2025)

Nerd's Eye View

This month's edition kicks off with the news that Morningstar Office will be shutting down in early 2026 as a part of Morningstar's ongoing effort to refocus on its core investment data and analytics business – forcing advisors currently using the tool to switch (which might be a net positive for many of those advisors who have long complained (..)

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The Best Of Weekend Reading 2024: Top 24 Articles You Might Have Missed

Nerd's Eye View

We start with several articles on retirement planning: Why considering a client's retirement time horizon and spending flexibility could lead to more accurate (and often higher) safe withdrawal rates than the simpler "4% rule" Four unique risks retirees face when drawing down their assets, from sequence of returns risk to tax risk, and how financial (..)

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Increasing Financial Planning Efficiency With A Systematized Annual Process

Nerd's Eye View

Which means that on any given workday, advisors might find themselves reviewing one client’s portfolio and another’s estate plan in the morning, and having a meeting with a third client later in the afternoon.

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Communicating Client Value By Articulating Your Solution To Their ‘Job To Be Done’

Nerd's Eye View

Communicating ongoing value to clients and prospects can be a challenge for financial advisors. Are they too disorganized to put together the necessary documents for creating a plan? For instance, do they need help defining their big-picture goals? Or do they know what they need to do but want help executing their plan?

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Estate Planning for High Net Worth Individuals: A Guide to Estate Equalization

Carson Wealth

For example, if you are leaving a house, a business and a stock portfolio to two children, each child would receive one-half of the house, one-half of the business, and one-half of the stock portfolio. Navigating Family Dynamics and Communication Estate planning issues can significantly affect the future of your loved ones.

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#FASuccess Ep 394: Launching An Administrative Family Office Practice To Deliver Your Best Support To (HNW) Clients, With Christi Van Rite

Nerd's Eye View

What's unique about Christi, though, is how she evolved her career into providing this type of unique family office service after nearly a decade of working as a more 'traditional' financial advisor, when she realized that she had developed a unique skill set to get very deeply involved in the (many) administrative demands of running complex ultra-high-net-worth (..)

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8 Ways Texting Can Boost Your Efficiency as a Financial Advisor

FMG

You’re juggling client meetings, market analysis, and a never-ending stream of communications. When advisors send a quick text reminder about documents previously requested via email, they often see those materials completed and returned within just 5 minutes (MyRepChat Internal Data, 2024).