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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (July 19–20)

Nerd's Eye View

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" – this week's edition kicks off with the news that a recent survey by Vanguard found while only 38% of investors reported considering time savings when signing up to receive financial advice , 76% of clients report saving time from working with an advisor (with a median of two hours per week, or more than 100 hours per year), suggesting that advisors can sell their value not only through the financial and emotional b

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Why Gen 2 Advisors Are a Flight Risk

Wealth Management

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Zephyr's Adjusted for Risk: Navigating Fixed Income in Uncertain Times

Wealth Management

Ryan Nauman and Noah Wise discuss the impact of the current uncertain macroeconomic environment on fixed income investments, the advantages of active management, the importance of diversification across the yield curve and geographic regions, and the potential risks and rewards in the fixed income market.

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At The Money: How to Spend Your Money in Retirement

The Big Picture

At The Money: The Right Way to Spend Your Money in Retirement (July 16, 2025) One of the biggest challenges of retirement is actually spending your money! After decades of working, saving, and investing, pivoting to spending down your accumulated wealth can be surprisingly difficult. Full transcript below. ~~~ About this week’s guest: Christine Benz is Director of Personal Finance & Retirement Planning at Morningstar; her new book is “ How to Retire: 20 Lessons for a Happy, Successful, and W

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You upgrade everything else. Why not your close process?

You wouldn’t keep using a 2009 flip phone - so why settle for outdated close processes? It’s time for an upgrade. SkyStem's Guide to Month-End Close Software walks you through what today’s best tools can do (and what your team shouldn’t have to deal with anymore). Get smart, fast, and a whole lot less stressed when it’s time to close the books.

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5 Financially strong mid cap stocks with high piotroski score of 9 to add to your watchlist

Trade Brains

The Piotroski Score is a financial tool that assesses a company’s financial strength on a scale of 0 to 9, with higher scores reflecting better performance. Commonly used by value investors, it helps identify financially sound investment opportunities. A lower score suggests weaker financial health and may signal higher investment risk. Financially strong stocks represent companies with solid financial fundamentals, including consistent revenue, profits, healthy cash flow, and strong market posi

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Fed's Beige Book: "Economic activity increased slightly"

Calculated Risk

Fed's Beige Book Economic activity increased slightly from late May through early July. Five Districts reported slight or modest gains, five had flat activity, and the remaining two Districts noted modest declines in activity. That represented an improvement over the previous report, in which half of Districts reported at least slight declines in activity.

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Zephyr's Adjusted for Risk: How Private Credit Is Reshaping Investment Strategies

Wealth Management

Ryan Nauman and Miguel Sosa discuss the increased popularity of private credit post-Global Financial Crisis, how interval funds match well with private credit due to liquidity needs, and why private credit is attractive to both investors and issuers

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Breaking Down the Big Beautiful Bill, Ep #243

Financial Symmetry

Tax season may feel far off, but with sweeping legislative changes just passed, proactive financial planning starts now. In this episode, we’re sharing our accessible, in-depth breakdown of the new Big Beautiful Bill, highlighting ten key tax provisions that every taxpayer should understand. 1. Individual and Joint Tax Rates Extended The tax rates most Americans have grown accustomed to since 2018 will be sticking around “permanently,” or at least as permanent as tax law ever gets!

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Technical View: Nifty, Bank Nifty & Sensex Trade Setup and Key levels to watch for 17th July

Trade Brains

On Wednesday, the Nifty 50 opened flat at 25,196.60 and closed slightly higher at 25,212.05, gaining 16.25 points or 0.06%. The Sensex also edged up by 63.57 points to end at 82,634.48. Despite the modest gains, investor sentiment remained cautious due to a weak start to the earnings season and mixed global cues, leading to ongoing market volatility.

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Tuesday: CPI, NY Fed Mfg

Calculated Risk

From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Just a Hair Higher Ahead of Important Inflation Report Today's movement in mortgage rates, in and of itself, is barely worth mentioning. The average lender remains close enough to Friday's levels but is technically just a hair higher. That fact is offset by the counterpoint that most of the past two months saw higher rates.

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Your Accounting Expertise Will Only Get You So Far: What Really Matters

Speaker: Victor C. Barnes, CPA, MBA

In the climb from contributor to leader, the rules quietly change. If you’re aiming for the summit, the air gets thinner—and what got you here won’t be enough to get you to the top (a concept first popularized by Marshall Goldsmith in his book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There ). What made you successful early in your finance career—technical accuracy, sharp analysis, flawless execution—won’t be what carries you to the next level.

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The 2025 Alternative Investment Tax Guide for High-Income Filers

Harness Wealth

Alternative investments such as private equity, cryptocurrencies, and collectibles now represent a significant part of the investment arena, in particular to high-income individuals. These alternative investments can offer distinct advantages in the shape of portfolio diversification and the potential for higher returns, but they can come with equally distinct tax complications that need to be carefully planned for.

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Five Key Provisions of New Tax Law Affecting Estate Planning

Wealth Management

New law increases transfer tax exemptions, raises SALT deduction cap, preserves TCJA rates, expands QSBS benefits and continues QBI deduction.

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Top 10 Best Performing Mutual Funds with Highest Returns in Last 10 Years – Do You Own Any?

Trade Brains

Synopsis- Mutual funds offer diversification, growth potential, and long-term wealth creation. Explore the top 10 mutual funds that delivered the highest SIP and lump sum returns over the last 10 years. When you invest through SIPs, you put in money every month. Each month, the money invested purchases funds at different prices. XIRR depicts the average yearly profit percentage earned on invested money over time.

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"The Office Sector’s Double Whammy"; Record High Office Vacancy Rate

Calculated Risk

From Nick Villa at Moody's The Office Sector’s Double Whammy The ongoing challenges affecting the office sector have not only resulted in deteriorating space market fundamentals—evidenced by the record-high national office vacancy rate in the second quarter of 2025—but have also had a direct negative impact on capital market activities, including the performance of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS).

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How To Overcome Change Fatigue In Finance With Neuroscience-Backed Strategies

Speaker: Kim Beynon, CPA, CGMA, PMP

The most overlooked, yet most critical, element of transformation is preparing people for change. Automation and AI aren't just technical upgrades, they’re cultural shifts which can challenge identities. That’s why change management isn’t a side project—it’s the foundation. In finance, where precision and process rule, navigating change can feel especially disruptive.

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When Markets Swing, Minds Stumble: What Behavioural Finance Teaches Us (And Why CFP® Matters Even More)

International College of Financial Planning

The stock market is not a machine of certainty; it’s a reflection of collective human psychology in motion. Every peak and trough, every rally and correction, carries within it a story of how investors feel and react, often more than how they think. Behavioural finance bridges the gap between rational theory and real-world decision making. It studies how people – despite data, logic, and expert advice – continue to make emotionally charged choices that often hurt their long-term goal

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Debating Private vs. Public Infrastructure in Client Portfolios

Wealth Management

Explore the performance, volatility and diversification benefits of private and public infrastructure investments for wealth managers and financial advisors.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (July 12–13)

Nerd's Eye View

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" - this week's edition kicks off with the news that, amidst the growing number of RIAs it supervises, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is moving ahead with a potential plan to raise the $100 million regulatory assets under management threshold for SEC registration, with the regulator having talks with some state securities regulators (which would bear an increasing regulatory burden if the threshold were lifted

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Best Performing Multi-Asset Allocation Funds in 2025 – Is Your Fund on the List?

Trade Brains

Synopsis- Multi Asset Allocation Funds offer diversified investment in equity, debt and commodities especially gold,making them balanced investment in the volatile markets. These funds help in reducing risk and maintaining stable gains. In this article, we rank the best performing Multi-Asset Allocation Funds in 2025 based on 3 year SIP XIRR performance and other key metrics. 1.

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2025 Industry Index: How Top Advisors Are Scaling Smarter (and Faster) This Year

Where are top advisors focusing in 2025? AcquireUp’s 2025 Industry Index reveals it all. Based on insights from 200+ financial professionals nationwide, discover why 74% say seminars and referrals deliver the best ROI, how automation is helping advisors scale faster, and why only 8% are tapping into niche marketing (a major growth opportunity!). Whether you're refining your client acquisition strategy or scaling your practice, this report gives you the real-world data, benchmarks, and action ste

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Will House Prices Decline Nationally in 2025?

Calculated Risk

Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Will House Prices Decline Nationally in 2025? A brief excerpt: Most forecasts for 2025 were for U.S. house prices to increase modestly in the 3% to 4% range. My early view was “mostly flat prices nationally in 2025” with some areas seeing price declines. I didn’t expect either a crash in prices or a surge in prices.

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Edward Fishman on Chokepoints, Weaponizing Finance, and What It Means for Portfolios

Steve Sanduski

Guest: Edward Fishman, Senior Research Scholar in the Faculty of International and Public Affairs; Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.  Edward is the author of a new book called Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare. In a nutshell: What if the most powerful weapon of the 21st century isn’t a missile, but a few entries in a computer?

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The Diamond Podcast for Financial Advisors: The Evolution of an Ex-Wirehouse Advisor’s $3B Business

Wealth Management

Joel Guth shares how stepping out from under the Hightower umbrella to become a fully independent RIA opened up a new world of opportunity for his firm Gryphon Financial Partners.

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Banks Are Bringing Boots $4.25 Billion Buyout Debt to Market

Advisor Perspectives

Banks are looking to sell $2.25 billion of term loans and $2 billion equivalent of bonds for Boots, to help finance its acquisition by US private equity firm Sycamore Partners, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Data Talks, CFOs Listen: Why Analytics Are Key To Better Spend Management

Speaker: Claire Grosjean, Global Finance & Operations Executive

Finance teams are drowning in data—but is it actually helping them spend smarter? Without the right approach, excess spending, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities continue to drain profitability. While analytics offers powerful insights, financial intelligence requires more than just numbers—it takes the right blend of automation, strategy, and human expertise.

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Identifying The ‘Right’ Balance Of Personalization And (Time) Cost Of Client Touchpoints To Boost ROI

Nerd's Eye View

For a financial advisor and their new client, the first year working together can be a particularly intense period, typically involving multiple in-person or virtual meetings. After this first year, though, the number of scheduled meetings typically declines, often including only one or two formal meetings per year to check on progress toward financial goals and answer questions.

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Thursday: Retail Sales, Unemployment Claims, Philly Fed Mfg, Homebuilder Survey

Calculated Risk

Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Thursday: • At 8:30 AM ET, The initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. The consensus is for initial claims to increase to 235 thousand from 233 thousand last week. • Also at 8:30 AM, Retail sales for June is scheduled to be released. The consensus is for a 0.2% increase in retail sales. • Also at 8:30 AM, the Philly Fed manufacturing survey for July.

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1031 Exchanges vs. Opportunity Zone investments

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The WealthStack Podcast: Human Connection Meets AI Automation with Zeplyn’s Era Jain

Wealth Management

Zeplyn's Era Jain details how the firm builds AI-native workflows that free up advisors’ time while structuring human conversations into powerful, actionable data.

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Live Demo - Supercharge your Month End Close

Automation generally supercharges any process and brings its value to the forefront. See how infusing automation such as ART (our month-end close solution), into your close can get you to the next level of closing. We will share a live demo of SkyStem's solution, ART and share the key elements of month-end close automation. Through ART, we'll take a look at: What month-end close automation entails Which process steps can and should be automated Benefits of achieving process automation, and Why i

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US Passes Genius Act; New Law for Crypto and Stablecoins

Trade Brains

Synopsis- A major shift just hit the U.S. crypto world. The House of Representatives decisively passed the GENIUS Act yesterday. As a result, the first significant federal crypto regulation now advances. President Donald Trump eagerly awaits the bill. He is expected to sign it soon. This victory marks a stunning turnaround for the industry. Previously, crypto firms faced regulatory resistance.

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Breaking Down The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”: Impact Of New Laws On Tax Planning

Nerd's Eye View

After years of anxiety over the scheduled sunset of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) at the end of 2025, the widely anticipated legislation extending and replacing TCJA – also known as the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (OBBBA) – was signed into law on July 4, 2025. At its core, OBBBA makes permanent many of the provisions of the original TCJA, including TCJA's tax brackets, increased standard deduction, Section 199A deduction for Qualified Business Income (QBI), and increased Child Ta

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Schedule for Week of July 13, 2025

Calculated Risk

The key reports this week are June CPI, Retail Sales and Housing Starts. For manufacturing, the June Industrial Production report and the July New York and Philly Fed manufacturing surveys will be released. -- Monday, July 14th -- No major economic releases scheduled. -- Tuesday, July 15th -- 8:30 AM: The Consumer Price Index for June from the BLS. The consensus is for a 0.3% increase in CPI, and a 0.3% increase in core CPI.

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Goldman Posts Best Stock-Trading Quarter in Wall Street History

Advisor Perspectives

Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s stock traders posted the largest revenue haul in Wall Street history, as volatility sparked by the Trump administration’s trade war spurred a second straight record quarter for the unit.

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The New Way Remote Finance Teams Are Protecting Accuracy And Building Resilience In A Cyber-Threatened World

Speaker: Cheryl J. Muldrew-McMurtry

Remote finance teams are rewriting how the back-office runs—and attackers are taking notes. Disconnected workflows, process blind spots, and rising cyber threats have become more than just “growing pains”. They’re now liabilities. The challenge isn’t just team distribution, but building resilient systems that protect accuracy, control, and speed across every transaction and touchpoint.