Wealth Management

JUNE 3, 2025

FP Alpha upgrades its estate planning platform with AI-powered document analysis and personalized insights to help advisors better serve clients needs.

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how Kevin's firm's new hire training program ramps up through the first 6 months, starting with an initial 90-day stage that uses standardized case studies to teach the firm's financial planning process and how to review and input data into the firm's systems, followed by a second 90-day stage that builds new (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 8, 2025

Seth is the founder of Heartwood Financial Planning, an advisory firm affiliated with PlanMember Securities Corporation that is based in Fresno, California, and oversees approximately $100 million in assets under management for 850 client households. Welcome everyone! Welcome to the 432nd episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast!

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Wealth Management

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Potential failures range from cyber theft to fee inflation to document mismanagement.

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 14, 2025

What's unique about Michelle, though, is the way she created a structured meeting process to navigate around the places where new clients often get stuck, standardized their experience in navigating through her deep planning process… and still retained a way to ensure that each client's financial plan focus and implementation is customized to (..)

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Wealth Management

JUNE 27, 2023

Wealth.com's Ester is a proprietary model that can read and restate documents and hold both short and long-term memories of previous client actions.

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 23, 2025

Since the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the mainstream technological landscape, conversations about which areas of the financial planning industry would be most likely impacted by AI have proliferated. Providing sample documents or links to sources for tone or substance may be helpful.

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The traditional way that most financial planning has been offered was for an advisor to create "The Plan": a comprehensive document outlining a client's financial strategy that was delivered either on a one-time basis or updated annually.

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

A common service model for many financial advisory firms is to schedule annual client meetings throughout the year where the advisor meets with each client in the month they started working with the firm, and conducts a comprehensive review of all planning topics for the client.

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The Chicago Financial Planner

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

One of the best tax deductions for a small business owner is funding a retirement plan. If you don’t plan for your own retirement who will? Two popular small business retirement plans are the SEP-IRA and Solo 401(k). I generally consider this a plan for the self-employed. You need to start a retirement plan today.

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Harness Wealth

MARCH 14, 2025

For many small tax firms, the process of collecting client tax documents can be a time-consuming and a prolonged process. The good news is that technology solutions, like Harness, can streamline document collection and transform the way tax professionals work. Client experience is another area where manual processes fall short.

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Wealth Management

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Draft estate planning documents with flexibility to account for a future diagnosis.

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Wealth Management

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Coordinate the terms with the client’s estate-planning documents.

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Among the several different types of retirement plans that are available to self-employed workers, solo 401(k) plans can offer the most flexibility and the ability to contribute the highest amount of tax-advantaged savings.

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Nerd's Eye View

MAY 5, 2025

From there, the latest highlights also feature a number of other interesting advisor technology announcements, including: Charles Schwab has taken a minority stake in estate planning platform Wealth.com as it seeks to offer estate document preparation to its retail investor clients – which on the one hand gives Schwab a value-add that could keep (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Attorneys are needed to draft the fund's offering documents, and if the advisor wants to avoid the need to register the securities or the investment company with the SEC, the firm will need to implement policies and procedures to ensure the fund meets the exemptions for those requirements.

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MainStreet Financial Planning

JANUARY 23, 2025

Review Your Estate Planning Documents Take some time to review the key documents in your estate plan, such as your will, power of attorney, and property deeds. Prepare for Tax Season Organize your tax documents in one central locationwhether its a folder, box, or basketto avoid scrambling when its time to file.

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MainStreet Financial Planning

JUNE 17, 2025

Plan Ahead for Seasonal Spending Think about what’s coming: back-to-school shopping, Halloween, Thanksgiving travel, holiday gifts. Even a few hundred dollars can go a long way in preserving your regular savings plan. Organize and Update Key Documents Summer is also a great time to review the paperwork side of your financial life.

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Tobias Financial

JUNE 2, 2025

Estate planning is one of the most important steps in securing your financial legacy, but its also among the most complex. Vanilla helps us create a clearer, more organized view of a clients estate by integrating their financial and legacy planning. One of Vanillas most powerful features is its ability to model what-if scenarios.

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Estate Planning Planning Financial Advisor Tax Planning 52

Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 3, 2023

million in seed funding to support its growth as it builds out its "end-to-end" financial planning and advice engagement platform (but will it be able to replace, rather than augment, advisors' existing financial planning software?)

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 7, 2023

This month's edition kicks off with the news that estate planning platform Wealth.com has launched Ester, an AI-driven 'legal assistant' that uses machine learning to help advisors quickly review and extract the key information from clients' estate planning documents, as it joins FP Alpha in the competition to become 'Holistiplan for estate planning (..)

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Carson Wealth

MAY 29, 2025

It probably depends on whether you have a strong plan in place for income during your retirement years. Having a retirement planning checklist can help make this final commute the time of reflection and joy it should be. Have a Financial Game Plan The importance of a plan cannot be emphasized enough.

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Wealth Management

MARCH 20, 2023

States may enact companion legislation.

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Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Similarly, advisors who provide comprehensive plans as part of their value proposition might need time to put together the necessary information – and asking prospects to "think it over" gives both parties time to ensure a good fit.

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Clients Communication Financial Advisor Planning 147

Abnormal Returns

JULY 3, 2023

kitces.com) Estate planning Four things to consider in anticipation of 2026. financial-planning.com) Wealth.com's Ester will help you read estate planning documents. riaintel.com) Why you should flip your plan presentation meetings on their head. (matts-newsletter-7a3f46.beehiiv.com) Thankfully advisers lead the list.

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Carson Wealth

JULY 3, 2024

Set up separate plans and goals for your business and your personal finances. It helps you plan for future expenses, allocate resources efficiently and stay on track with your financial goals. Identifying these risks early and having a plan to mitigate them can save your business from significant setbacks.

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Financial Planning Planning Retirement Planning Tax Planning 142

Abnormal Returns

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

(youtube.com) Retirement Why planning in retirement is so challenging. wsj.com) Dan Haylett talks retirement planning with Bec Wilson, author of "How to Have an Epic Retirement." (wsj.com) Dan Haylett talks retirement planning with Bec Wilson, author of "How to Have an Epic Retirement."

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 24, 2024

In this guest post, David Haughton, the Team Lead for Advanced Planning at Commonwealth Financial Network, explores the importance of comprehensive POAs and how they can be constructed to avoid many of the common pitfalls that loved ones may encounter when accessing an incapacitated person's assets. Unfortunately, nearly half of all U.S.

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Estate Planning Accounting Clients Planning 246

Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 24, 2024

In this guest post, David Haughton, the Team Lead for Advanced Planning at Commonwealth Financial Network, explores the importance of comprehensive POAs and how they can be constructed to avoid many of the common pitfalls that loved ones may encounter when accessing an incapacitated person's assets. Unfortunately, nearly half of all U.S.

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Clients Estate Planning Accounting Planning 246

Trade Brains

JUNE 9, 2025

This document looks at the benefits offered by the Income Tax Act 1961 for those retiring. Written by Promita Ghosal The post Tax Benefits of Retirement Schemes in India: How to Save Lakhs While Planning Your Future appeared first on Trade Brains.

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In this guest post, Chris Stanley, investment management attorney and Founding Principal of Beach Street Legal, discusses in depth the various stages of buying, selling, and merging an investment advisory and financial planning business.

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Compliance Sales Financial Planning Financial Advisor 246

Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 24, 2022

a single person, a couple, a business, or a retirement plan) and the date on which the agreement will become effective. To start, the agreement should contain basic information about the adviser-client relationship, including who the client is (e.g., The agreement should also lay out some acknowledgments for the client to review.

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Electronics Clients Retirement Planning Financial Advice 242

Abnormal Returns

MARCH 15, 2023

(wsj.com) Retirement Retirement planning is a moving target. wsj.com) How poorly drafted legal documents can land you in trouble. humbledollar.com) Retirement is, in part, about declaring career victory. humbledollar.com) Advice How to fire your financial advisor in four steps.

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Retirement Planning Retirement Financial Services Banking 246

The Big Picture

MAY 28, 2023

on a disastrous COVID plan, and never paid a professional price. A painstakingly documented new book by Jonathan Howard, a neurologist at New York University and a veteran debunker of the pseudoscience contaminating our efforts to fight the pandemic. Vox ) • Why is the US banning children’s books?

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Accounting Medical Numbers Assets 299

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.

Education 244

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 24, 2022

a single person, a couple, a business, or a retirement plan) and the date on which the agreement will become effective. To start, the agreement should contain basic information about the adviser-client relationship, including who the client is (e.g., The agreement should also lay out some acknowledgments for the client to review.

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Electronics Clients Retirement Planning Financial Advice 238

Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 16, 2024

Thomas is the co-founder of AllStreet Wealth, a financial planning firm for millennial business owners and those with equity comp based in Indianapolis, IN, that has quickly grown to more than $500,000 of run-rate revenue generated from serving 70 ongoing client households. My guest on today's podcast is Thomas Kopelman.

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