Harness Wealth

MARCH 14, 2025

For many small tax firms, the process of collecting client tax documents can be a time-consuming and a prolonged process. The good news is that technology solutions, like Harness, can streamline document collection and transform the way tax professionals work. Client experience is another area where manual processes fall short.

Taxes 52

Taxes Compliance Tax Planning Clients 52

Wealth Management

JULY 26, 2023

New York court allows minority owner to obtain information despite attorney-client privilege.

Clients 246

Clients 246

Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

For most prospects, showing up comfortably and feeling their very best can be challenging when they don't know what to expect – whether it's where to park, how formal the meeting will be, or whether they need to bring any financial documents.

Communication 187

Communication Clients Financial Advisor Sales 187

Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 9, 2025

Similarly, investigating offerings that clients don't engage with – such as document vaults that they rarely use – can reveal where advisors can focus less effort, giving them more time to focus on what really does make a difference.

Financial Advice 227

Financial Advice Asset Allocation Clients Wealth Management 227

Wealth Management

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The emails started around Wednesday with an attached PDF document that the brokerage regulator warned could include “malicious” content.

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 23, 2025

Providing sample documents or links to sources for tone or substance may be helpful. To use them effectively, it can be helpful to assign ChatGPT a role (e.g., “You are my executive producer” or “You are a marketing director”) and define a clear objective.

Financial Advisor 244

Financial Advisor Clients Communication Financial Planning 244

Wealth Management

MARCH 18, 2025

Considerations for different industries and how they affect legal documentation.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 11, 2024

Instead of simply a question-and-answer format, Brightwave reports are “living documents” that can be expanded and manipulated based on an advisor’s interests.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 10, 2024

The Document-to-Portfolio tool aims to allow users to upload images or PDF files of account statements from brokerages and banks, automatically populate account transfer details and receive real-time financial analysis.

Accounting 290

Accounting Banking Portfolio 290

Wealth Management

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Potential failures range from cyber theft to fee inflation to document mismanagement.

Retirement Planning 298

Retirement Planning Retirement Planning 298

Wealth Management

JUNE 27, 2023

Wealth.com's Ester is a proprietary model that can read and restate documents and hold both short and long-term memories of previous client actions.

Estate Planning 306

Estate Planning Planning Clients 306

Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 30, 2024

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 (..)

Financial Advisor 240

Financial Advisor Insurance Tax Planning Taxes 240

Wealth Management

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Draft estate planning documents with flexibility to account for a future diagnosis.

Estate Planning 289

Estate Planning Accounting Planning 289

Wealth Management

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Coordinate the terms with the client’s estate-planning documents.

Estate Planning 277

Estate Planning Planning 277

Indigo Marketing Agency

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

LinkedIn Documents. In this guide, we’ll show you how to harness the power of LinkedIn Documents and unveil eight game-changing tactics to connect with top-tier clients. With the potential to share extensive documents, incorporating LinkedIn Documents into your marketing strategy can be a game-changer. The secret weapon?

Marketing 97

Marketing Marketing Education Clients 97

Carson Wealth

JANUARY 25, 2023

Adhering to their timeline and providing documents in the instructed manner (such as through a client portal or a secure drop box) will reduce any back and forth and minimize the chance that your preparer misses something you already provided. Sometimes life events make it impractical or too stressful to collect all the documents on time.

Taxes 98

Taxes Medical Distribution Accounting 98

Wealth Management

DECEMBER 18, 2023

s document business. DocuSign, which went public in 2018, has been hurt by increasing competition from Adobe Inc.’s

Sales 266

Sales 266

Wealth Management

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In the world of philanthropy, there are “bargains” as well, but they may be lost without proper documentation.

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Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 5, 2025

Historically, estate planning centered on tangible documentation – wills, account access, and critical information stored in safes or files, with clear instructions for heirs.

Estate Planning 164

Estate Planning Assets Planning Clients 164

Wealth Management

MARCH 15, 2024

Woehrle discusses a court case that focuses on how to document correctly the charitable deduction from a syndicated conservation easement. Christopher P.

Valuation 260

Valuation 260

Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 29, 2024

However, because few advisors are also legal professionals (who can offer more detailed guidance and draft legal documents), many often collaborate with estate planning attorneys to ensure their clients' estate planning needs are met. With this in mind, many financial advisors offer estate planning guidance to clients.

Estate Planning 246

Estate Planning Clients Planning Financial Advisor 246

Wealth Management

JULY 26, 2023

They didn’t meet documentation requirements, and their appraisals contained valuation misstatements.

Valuation 246

Valuation 246

Wealth Management

JULY 14, 2023

A Michigan jury deemed a handwritten document found in between Aretha’s couch cushions a valid will.

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Wealth Management

AUGUST 16, 2023

authorities of information—and personal identification documentation—concerning beneficial ownership of nearly all U.S. The CTA broadens reporting to U.S. companies as well as foreign companies doing business in America.

Clients 246

Clients 246

MainStreet Financial Planning

JANUARY 23, 2025

Review Your Estate Planning Documents Take some time to review the key documents in your estate plan, such as your will, power of attorney, and property deeds. Prepare for Tax Season Organize your tax documents in one central locationwhether its a folder, box, or basketto avoid scrambling when its time to file.

Estate Planning 85

Estate Planning Budgeting Taxes Insurance 85

Wealth Management

JANUARY 10, 2023

million common shares of FTX Trading, bankruptcy court documents show. Brady, formerly a prominent FTX booster, owns more than 1.1

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The Reformed Broker

JANUARY 28, 2023

Nathan is the author of the new book For Blood and Money, which documents the story behind the biggest winners the stock market has ever. We had a great time learning from Nathan Vardi this week.

Management 258

Management Marketing Marketing 258

Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 3, 2023

Read the analysis about these announcements in this month's column, and a discussion of more trends in advisor technology, including: FP Alpha unbundles its Estate Planning Lab solution for automatically reading and summarizing clients' estate planning documents available as a stand-alone option, and rolls out a new P&C Insurance Snapshot tool, (..)

Estate Planning 246

Estate Planning Financial Planning Wealth Management Clients 246

Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 29, 2025

As a foundational document, the operating agreement is essential for RIA firms. When thoughtfully drafted, it aligns the interests of the firm's owners, sets clear expectations for operations, and establishes how profits will be distributed.

Distribution 130

Distribution Government Financial Advice Planning 130

Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 29, 2025

As a foundational document, the operating agreement is essential for RIA firms. When thoughtfully drafted, it aligns the interests of the firm's owners, sets clear expectations for operations, and establishes how profits will be distributed.

Distribution 130

Distribution Government Financial Advice Planning 130

Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 7, 2023

This month's edition kicks off with the news that estate planning platform Wealth.com has launched Ester, an AI-driven 'legal assistant' that uses machine learning to help advisors quickly review and extract the key information from clients' estate planning documents, as it joins FP Alpha in the competition to become 'Holistiplan for estate planning (..)

Estate Planning 246

Estate Planning Wealth Management Financial Advisor Planning 246

Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Also in industry news this week: The SEC this week released its list of priorities for 2025 examinations, which include advisers' use of Artificial Intelligence tools, adviser recommendations of complex investment products, and broker-dealers' compliance with Regulation Best Interest CFP Board has introduced a refreshed ad campaign encouraging students (..)

Financial Planner 246

Financial Planner Financial Advisor Estate Planning Compliance 246

Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Once they are comfortable with the information and documents that have been shared, they can sign a Letter Of Intent that, while still high-level, provides enough detail about the proposed transaction for the seller to make an informed decision about whether to proceed.

Compliance 246

Compliance Sales Financial Advisor Financial Planning 246

The Big Picture

MAY 28, 2023

A painstakingly documented new book by Jonathan Howard, a neurologist at New York University and a veteran debunker of the pseudoscience contaminating our efforts to fight the pandemic. My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • We Want Them Infected : These ‘experts’ sold the U.S.

Accounting 299

Accounting Medical Numbers Assets 299

Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 24, 2024

Moreover, even if durability is established, it's important to distinguish between an immediate POA, which is effective as soon as the document is signed, and a springing POA, which won't be effective until the grantor becomes incapacitated, and that incapacitation has been certified by a doctor as well! Unfortunately, nearly half of all U.S.

Estate Planning 246

Estate Planning Accounting Clients Planning 246

Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 24, 2024

Moreover, even if durability is established, it's important to distinguish between an immediate POA, which is effective as soon as the document is signed, and a springing POA, which won't be effective until the grantor becomes incapacitated, and that incapacitation has been certified by a doctor as well! Unfortunately, nearly half of all U.S.

Clients 246

Clients Estate Planning Accounting Planning 246

Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

For example, the advisor may frame a second meeting as an opportunity to review documents while having paperwork ready for those who are still ready to proceed. Advisors can strike a middle ground if they want (or need) a longer prospecting process without disempowering the ready-to-commit prospect.

Clients 143

Clients Communication Financial Advisor Planning 143