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What does a financial advisor do? (day in the life of a financial advisor)

Sara Grillo

No joke, there are alot of morons in the business who are salespeople in disguise and just sit around golfing all day while earning trailing commissions off their clients to whom they sold whole life insurance 20 years ago. I have any emails from clients routed to a specific folder so that I can address those first. hours of it.

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Ensuring Legacies Last

Brown Advisory

An essential step in estate planning is making sure beneficiaries know all the responsibilities and challenges that accompany the management of increasing wealth. When an aging parent with an air-tight estate plan fails to prepare heirs for an inheritance, an act of kindness runs a high risk of backfire.

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Anchoring Expectations

Brown Advisory

By walking through four steps with a client, we can refocus his or her mindset on the fundamental issues that help safeguard financial stability and achieve steady outperformance. Here are four ways we think about preparing clients to stay the course regardless of the market’s mood: Clarify your mission. Set hard numbers.

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Before Tying the Knot

Brown Advisory

Such protection can be a cornerstone for sound estate planning. A discretionary trust can provide a means of multigenerational estate planning by establishing how assets are passed on and reduce future generations’ potential estate-tax liability. By Stephen Shutz, CFA, Tax-Exempt Portfolio Manager.

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Transcript: Tom Rampulla

The Big Picture

You can stream and download our full conversation, including the podcast extras on iTunes , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , YouTube , Bloomberg , and Acast. We’re owned by our clients. What exactly does it do, and what sort of clients and customers are you working with? It’s got such a sense of purpose. RAMPULLA: Yeah.

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Dream or Opportunity?

Brown Advisory

We are using third-party managers such as Somerset and Macquarie in an effort to position client portfolios to benefit from the rising middle class across the region. We mitigate risk by ensuring that the managers buy shares of Chinese companies outside mainland exchanges, where speculation is rife. 1, 2008, until Dec.

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Diamonds In The Rough

Brown Advisory

Please download The Advisory to read other articles in this issue including: Off the Beaten Trail. We are recommending that clients consider high-yield bonds and other asset classes that can offer the prospect of solid gains that diverge from the path of traditional stocks and bonds. By Mark Kodenski, Private Client Portfolio Manager.

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