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Offering Tax Preparation As A Solo Advisor: How To Attain Designations And Create A Schedule By Next Tax Season

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Traditionally, financial advice and tax preparation have existed as 2 related, but separate, services. CPA, EA, or JD) to prepare tax returns and represent clients before the IRS, there has also been the impression that there is simply not enough time for one person to do both.

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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (May 2023)

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This month's edition kicks off with the news that robo-advisor Betterment entered into a $9M settlement with the SEC for misrepresenting its tax-loss harvesting practices in its client agreements and marketing materials compared with its actual practices (e.g.,

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Nov 19-20)

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A potential compromise during the lame-duck Congressional session could see a boost to the child tax credit and extended tax breaks for businesses. From there, we have several articles on tax planning: How advisors can add value for their clients by managing their exposure to mutual fund capital gains distributions.

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The Latest In Financial #AdvisorTech (April 2024)

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Vanilla announced a new Scenarios tool to facilitate advisors working with ultra-HNW clients that need to model various four-letter estate planning strategies (e.g., GRATs, SLATs, CRUTs, and ILITs) to show the impact of the advisor’s advice (at least for those clients who still have Federal estate tax exposure).

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#FA Success Ep 357: Building A High-Tech High-Touch Advisory Firm With The Modern Advisor Tech Stack, With Jon Henderson

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In this episode, we talk in-depth about how Jon evolved his "high tech and high touch" mindset to serving clients by regularly iterating upon and updating his advisor tech stack while also elevating his long-time client service administrator into a more holistic client concierge (because the future isn't about tech or human service, it's tech and human (..)

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Highlights From The 2024 T3 Advisor Conference

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those that offer both digital robo-advice and human touch) are growing faster than almost everyone else, with 24% of net new cashflows despite the low aggregate number of firms with this business model. Likewise, while CRM usage has slipped by about 5%, the overall number of advisors who use a CRM still remains at a dominant 92%.

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TD Ameritrade To Schwab Conversion Tips For Financial Advisors

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For instance, TD Ameritrade rep codes that are used to organize client accounts will be converted to an 8-digit Schwab "master number", which is used for account grouping, billing, account service, and more.