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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (March 15–16)

Nerd's Eye View

Also in industry news this week: A recent survey finds that while advisors are increasingly using passive investment vehicles, many are taking the time to look beneath the hood to examine the makeup of different indexes in order to choose the best option for their clients A survey of advisors working at enterprise firms shows a significant increase (..)

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#FA Success Ep 315: Learning Business Development By Consistently Being Seen Where Your Ideal Clients Are, With Lisa Brown

Nerd's Eye View

What's unique about Lisa, though, is how, by digging deeper into an existing firm niche focus of Coca-Cola employees and talking extensively with employees there about their common needs and issues that affected their financial goals, she began to write white papers for them, which was so successful in building her reputation and expertise – (..)

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Is AI putting your future at risk?

Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT)

The nine-year MDRT member from Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, prompted the AI chatbot to write a table of contents for a marketing white paper to share with clients. For Jonathan Peter Kestle, CLU, B Com , ChatGPT is like a college intern who majors in English. ChatGPT answered instantly with prose.

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Why is Estate and Legacy Planning Important?

Nationwide Financial

Legacy planning allows you to demonstrate your empathy, furthering client trust In our “Legacy Essentials” program, the Nationwide Retirement Institute (“NRI”) has taken a deep dive into the topic of empathy and how it can help financial professionals and build trust with clients. The post Why is Estate and Legacy Planning Important?

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FARE helps Black financial professionals thrive

Nationwide Financial

According to a Nationwide Retirement Institute® Diverse Markets White Paper, decades of research show that Black consumers tend to express higher levels of generalized distrust than whites. Those individuals will also serve as future mentors and leaders in this industry.

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Indexed Annuities: The New Retirement Pensions?

Tucker Advisors

Indexed Annuities: The New Retirement Pensions? In other words, the large majority of us can no longer rely on our employers to fund our retirement plans. For one, it can be a better instrument for growing retirement savings. But, without pensions, employees also can’t predict an exact monthly income for their retirement.

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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.