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How clients saving for retirement can benefit from higher interest rates

Nationwide Financial

Key Takeaways: The last two years have been marked by the highest inflation rates in decades; your clients saving for retirement can use this to their advantage through short-term investments, tax deferral, and insurance products offering better benefits. Your clients can mitigate interest rate risk simply by holding them to maturity.

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Effective Implementation Of A Backdoor Roth Strategy: Detailed Nuances, IRS Form 8606 (And When It’s Even Worth Doing)

Nerd's Eye View

There are many tax planning strategies that allow financial advisors to demonstrate the ongoing value they provide to clients in exchange for the fees they charge. The backdoor Roth strategy can be valuable for clients whose high income levels preclude them from making regular contributions to a Roth IRA.

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MiB: Robyn Grew, Man Group CEO

The Big Picture

The firm manages about $145 billion in client assets and is the world’s largest publicly traded hedge fund. Before joining the firm in 2010 as Chief Compliance Officer for Man GLG, Robyn held Sr. This week, we speak with Robyn Grew, currently, the President at Man Group, and effective September 1, the firm’s new CEO.

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Join The Bond Market Resistance!

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

All these various talking heads from brokerage firms and the like were given their regular media platform and were regularly doing this and I have to believe that the clients they advise, directly and indirectly, did end up buying long term bonds funds last year. Here's the relevant excerpt. It turned out it did matter starting in late 2021.

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10 Monday AM Reads

The Big Picture

The firm plans to hit $10 trillion in client assets over the next decade. My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • Morgan Stanley’s CEO Built a Wall Street Powerhouse. His Next Act Is No Less Ambitious. If James Gorman can get it there, the stock will keep winning. If James Gorman can get it there, the stock will keep winning.

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Providing Mortgage Advice In A Higher Interest-Rate Environment: Opportunities For Advisors To Add Value

Nerd's Eye View

Leading up to 2022, financial advisors and their clients had grown accustomed to a relatively low mortgage rate environment. In fact, until earlier this year, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate had stayed below 5% since 2010 (and below 7% since 2001). in October 2022, twice the 3.45% average rate in January. Read More.

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AIA: "Architecture Billings Index Reports Sluggish Conditions to Start 2024"; Multi-family Billings Decline for 18th Consecutive Month

Calculated Risk

This now marks the lengthiest period of declining billings since 2010 , although it is reassuring that the pace of this decline is less rapid and the broader economy showed improvement in January,” said Kermit Baker, PhD, AIA Chief Economist. in January. Any score below 50.0 indicates decreasing business conditions. Any score below 50.0

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