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How Communicating Guardrails Withdrawal Strategies Can Improve Client Experience And Decrease Stress

Nerd's Eye View

But by communicating the guardrails withdrawal strategy (and not necessarily the underlying Monte Carlo probability of success changes) to clients, advisors offer them both the portfolio value that would trigger spending changes and the magnitude that would be prescribed for such changes.

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How to Determine Your Client’s Risk Tolerance

BlueMind

Category: Clients Risk. Determining the client’s risk tolerance is not an exact science and requires you to communicate with your client. What Does The Word “Risk” Mean For Your Clients? For some clients, “risk” maybe something exciting or daring that they enjoy and not something they generally avert from.

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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (June 2024)

Nerd's Eye View

This month's edition kicks off with the news that 'startup' custodian Altruist has completed a $169 million fundraising round as it continues to rebuild the RIA custodial tech stack layer-by-layer while positioning itself as the biggest RIA custodian built from scratch and solely for advisors – which, while making it the clear #3 custodian behind (..)

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5 Questions Using Risk Assessment Data That Help Advisors Understand Clients’ True Concerns About Risk

Nerd's Eye View

Over the years, 2 types of measurement tools have emerged as the standards for assessing risk tolerance: 1) psychometric tests, which feature a series of questions (such as, "What amount of risk do you feel you have taken with past financial decisions?")

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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (November 2022)

Nerd's Eye View

Riskalyze signals an intent to rebrand itself away from ‘just’ risk tolerance assessments to a broader focus on helping advisors grow clients and assets. Hearsay Systems rolls out a new small-to-mid-sized RIA platform for social media compliance and website design.

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Why Held-Away Asset Management Technology Is Being Scrutinized By State Regulators (And How Advisors Can Compliantly Manage Clients’ 401(k) Assets)

Nerd's Eye View

For advisors who want to advise on clients' 401(k) plan assets but who can't manage them directly, there have generally been 2 options.

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Why Regulators Are Questioning The Use Of Held-Away Asset Management Technology (And What Advisors Can Do About It)

Nerd's Eye View

For advisors who want to advise on clients' 401(k) plan assets but who can't manage them directly, there have generally been 2 options.

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