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Empower (formerly Personal Capital) Review – Managing All Your Investments in One Place

Good Financial Cents

We accept a fiduciary obligation to act in your best interest, and our advice must be aimed at making money for you, not for us. Fiduciary duty means the party has a legal obligation to put your interests above their own. Tax Optimization Personal Capital uses tax optimization in the management of your portfolio.

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How to Choose the Right Wealth Management Firm in Kansas City

Fortune Financial

Tax Considerations Be mindful of tax implications related to your goals. Certain investments or strategies may offer tax advantages, while others could result in higher tax liabilities. Consulting with an advisor can help you optimize your financial plan along with identifying the impact of potential future tax changes.

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Fiduciary Paper #10: Is Proper Tax-Efficient Portfolio Design and Management a Duty, and is it Scalable?

Ron A. Rhodes

I have increasingly witnessed registered investment adviser (RIA) firms, as well as brokerage firms, generally disavow (often in their client services agreement) any duty to manage the investment portfolios of…

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How to Choose the Right Wealth Management Firm in Kansas City

Fortune Financial

Tax Considerations Be mindful of tax implications related to your goals. Certain investments or strategies may offer tax advantages, while others could result in higher tax liabilities. Consulting with an advisor can help you optimize your financial plan along with identifying the impact of potential future tax changes.

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Should you die and go to hell before selling an annuity?

Sara Grillo

Do advisors breach fiduciary duty when they fail to recommend annuities? Should those with only insurance licenses that allow them to sell annuities and/or life insurance be held to the same “fiduciary standard” as Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs) with the SEC or state regulators?

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Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Sustainable Core Fixed Income Strategy

Brown Advisory

Tom Graff, the portfolio manager of the Brown Advisory Sustainable Core Fixed Income Strategy, has seen a tremendous evolution in the tools available to ESG-oriented investors since he began helping clients with ESG mandates in the 1990s. Q: Why is this the right time for sustainable bonds?

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Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Sustainable Core Fixed Income Strategy

Brown Advisory

Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Sustainable Core Fixed Income Strategy. As of the end of 2015, $1 out of every $5 under professional management was invested in accordance with some sort of social, environmental and governance (ESG) consideration, according to the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (US SIF).