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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (November 2–3)

Nerd's Eye View

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" - this week's edition kicks off with the news that SIFMA, which represents broker-dealers, investment banks, and asset managers, released a white paper that argues that CFP Board "increasingly functions as a de facto private regulator for CFP certificants" and proposes that CFP (..)

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Rethinking What Is Safe

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Meb Faber posted a short white paper titled What Is The Safest Investment Asset ? The white paper plays with the following mixes of GAA and T-bills. This will be fun. The table assumes 2.94% annualized inflation to yield the following real returns.

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GMO’s New Asset Management Platform

Advisor Perspectives

When I heard that the investment management firm GMO had created a retirement planning tool to mitigate “sequence of returns” risk I looked forward to learning about it. After setting aside a stumbling block or two in its white papers, I found it to be the best platform for financial advisors I have ever seen.

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Why is Estate and Legacy Planning Important?

Nationwide Financial

We have financial professional and client-facing presentations on the science of empathy, preparing for the challenges of aging, and building wealth transfer plans that consider clients and their beneficiaries. You can also visit nationwidefinancial.com/legacy-essentials for white papers, client-facing materials, and other valuable insights.

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What is the Difference Between a 401k and an IRA?

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

A 401(k) is a qualified retirement plan that is sponsored by an employer. It allows employees to deduct a portion of their salary and put it into an account that is invested for their retirement. Some 401(k) plans will offer the ability to take a loan from the account and pay it back, with interest.

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Dystopian Predictions (That Never Come True)

Inside Information

He published a number of white papers around the turn of the century that predicted a dystopian professional landscape composed of a small handful of giant RIAs and a few smaller firms scurrying under their feet, looking for table scraps. This white paper is an echo of Hurley’s original forecasts. Which means?

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15 Financial Advisor Website Calculators

Midstream Marketing

This is true, but keep in mind that there are also MANY sales funnels out there – and many other forms of deliverables like white papers and books, too. Retirement Planning. Retirement planning is a very precise process, and one that is unique to the individual. Beneficiary RMD Calculator.