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101 Ways Advisors Can Add Value And Attract Their Ideal Clients

Nerd's Eye View

Traditionally, investment planning has been at the forefront of how financial advisors add value for their clients. But, with the rise of index funds and the commoditization of investment advice, generating sufficient investment ‘alpha’ to justify a fee has become more challenging for advisors.

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101 Things That Advisors Actually DO To Add Value (Beyond Just Allocating A Portfolio)

Nerd's Eye View

Traditionally, investment planning has been at the forefront of how financial advisors add value for their clients. But, with the rise of index funds and the commoditization of investment advice, generating sufficient investment ‘alpha’ to justify a fee has become more challenging for advisors.

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Tales from the Crypto: How to Think About Bitcoin

ClearMoney

Bitcoin and related cryptocurrencies (now numbering in the thousands) are the subject of much debate and fascination. After a limited number of password attempts, a user can permanently lose access. UNITED STATES: Dimensional Fund Advisors LP is an investment advisor registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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A Promising Picture for Financial Planner Job Growth

eMoney Advisor

Financial advisor is among the professions, such as epidemiologist, that saw a big increase in projected employment once the BLS factored the effects of the pandemic into the estimates. While these are only estimates, not forecasts, the numbers seem promising. A Wave of Retirements Expected. population. Kitces.com. McKinsey & Co.

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Is Active vs. Passive Actually Passé?

ClearMoney

Index construction rules are often designed to accommodate the mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tracking the indexes, reducing index turnover, for example, by limiting the number of rebalancing events and imposing thresholds on security weight changes.

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10 Obstacles to Investing—and How to Overcome Them

ClearMoney

(Assuming an average 10% return, as the S&P 500 has returned historically, money invested in the stock market doubles every seven years.) You’re forgetting that diversification—spreading your investments across a large number of companies—is a powerful way to minimize risk. Fama and Kenneth R. 5 (2010): 1915–1947.

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Is It Time to Sell Stocks?

ClearMoney

Morningstar further pointed out that if the performance of non-surviving tactical funds were included, the numbers would be even worse. Dimensional Hong Kong Limited is licensed by the Securities and Futures Commission to conduct Type 1 (dealing in securities) regulated activities only and does not provide asset management services.