In the past, I’ve likened a client’s view of a financial advisor to watching a duck swim across a pond. To the observer, it looks like the duck is effortlessly gliding across the water, but beneath ...

The best time to address potential mental decline is well before it becomes an issue. Advisors should initiate an aging plan for clients in their 50s or early 60s. The idea is to start the ...

Julius Caeser is credited with coining the phrase, “Experience is the best teacher.” In law, experience teaches us many things. In the legal ethics arena, experience teaches us to see red flags about ...

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Advice to help financial advisors cover all the bond basics with clients Meagan is a former Series 7 financial advisor and current writer focused on blending straightforward information with a dose of ...

In my opinion, it would be difficult to find a business leader who doesn’t at least give lip service to focus on the customer. In reality, their operational frameworks might be bursting with systems ...

Meagan is a former Series 7 financial advisor and current writer focused on blending straightforward information with a dose of humor on topics including equity investments, insurance products, and ...

Wealth advisers know that clients with high net worth typically look to them for guidance on charitable giving. That’s why these professionals often start conversations about philanthropy — especially ...

In wealth management, keeping a client is usually far more cost effective than finding a new one. That is why good advisors are attentive to signs that those they serve might be drifting away. For ...

In my years traveling the country to work on M&A transactions in the wealth management space, two things have remained reliably consistent: First, every time my 6'10" frame steps off an airplane, I ...