Nerd's Eye View

MAY 8, 2023

Traditionally, financial advice and tax preparation have existed as 2 related, but separate, services. Besides the fact that many financial advisors don’t hold the necessary credentials (e.g., by tailoring client data-gathering worksheets to focus on the information that is relevant to a client’s tax situation).

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Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 26, 2022

As 2022 comes to a close, I am once again so thankful to all of you, the ever-growing number of readers who continue to regularly visit this Nerd’s Eye View Blog (and share the content with your friends and colleagues, which we greatly appreciate!). navigate a volatile market environment (in both stocks and bonds – oof!)

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Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

For which Elements has positioned itself as an early leader that is now gaining momentum.

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Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Financial advisors have had to navigate many challenges in 2022, from an inflationary environment, the likes of which we have not experienced in decades, to weak stock and bond market performance. All in pursuit of our mission: Making Financial Advicers Better, And More Successful. Read More.

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 25, 2022

Yet despite this – and perhaps even because of it – advisory firms are putting an ever-greater focus on financial planning in 2022, as a way to both show value to clients in the midst of difficult market returns, and, more broadly, to help clients navigate the current environment.

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 23, 2024

Tyson is the CEO of FORM Wealth Advisors, a hybrid advisory firm based in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, that oversees approximately $900 million in assets under management for just over 800 client households.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 19, 2022

We’re owned by our clients. RAMPULLA: I went to Drexel part time while I was at Vanguard, did that commute down to Philadelphia from the suburbs, you know, three times a week for a number of years. I was employee number one in London. And it was just really fun to build that business. RAMPULLA: — starting up.

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Sara Grillo

MAY 23, 2022

This interview with Cody Garrett, CFP, of Measure Twice Financial was mind-blowing. It’s so clear to me what the future of financial advice is – what it should be – and what it will be. Financial planning is offered as a stand-alone product; it is the only thing that an advice-only financial planner does.

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Good Financial Cents

APRIL 19, 2023

Once the course is complete, I do some continued marketing and client support which amounts to just a few hours per week, while sales roll in month after month. You can earn passive income whether you’re an entrepreneur with a brilliant business plan, a talented artist, or just happen to have extra cash to invest.

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

And I’m like, dad, I found I need 25 grand to get going and my dad said send me a business plan. I went to business school RITHOLTZ: He just wanted you to go through the exercise. LINDZON: No, so obviously, I did the business plan, I’m kidding. Uh, Fred said to give me your number.”

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