Five Questions to Prepare Clients for Caregiving Needs
Wealth Management
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Who cares for the caretakers?
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Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-October
Calculated Risk
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-October A brief excerpt: Yesterday, in Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-October I reviewed home inventory and sales. Most measures of house prices have shown an increase in prices over the last several months, and a key question I discussed in July is Will house prices decline further later this year?
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Five Questions to Prepare Clients to Take Care of Aging Parents
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2025 Industry Index: How Top Advisors Are Scaling Smarter (and Faster) This Year
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RIA Edge Podcast: Connectus Wealth's Molly Bennard on Bringing Different Connections into Focus
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#FA Success Ep 354: Making Advisor Transitions Less Scary With Effective Transition Preparation And Support Services, With Grier Rubeling
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Welcome everyone! Welcome to the 354th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Grier Rubeling. Grier is the founder of Advisor Transition Services, a consulting firm based in Cary, North Carolina, that helps advisors switch from one broker-dealer or custodian platform to another, often when breaking away from a larger firm to start up their own.
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More Employment Graphs: Duration of Unemployment, Unemployment by Education, Diffusion Indexes
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10 Midweek Must Reads for the Real Estate Investor (Oct. 11, 2023)
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Real estate managers’ assets under management fell by 2.9% during the year ended June 30, reported Pensions & Investments. S&P might downgrade Brookfield Real Estate to junk status because of its high maturing debt loan, according to Bisnow. These are among today’s must reads from around the commercial real estate industry.
Did Bonds Just Bottom?
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Join Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick for another round of What Are Your Thoughts? On this week’s episode, Josh and Michael discuss the biggest topics in investing and finance, including: ►Have Treasury Bonds Bottomed? – The crash in long-dated Treasurys since the pandemic now ranks as one of the most destructive financial crashes ever.
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During times of market uncertainty, a strong, clear message is vital to building and maintaining trust.
Data Talks, CFOs Listen: Why Analytics Are Key To Better Spend Management
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Finance teams are drowning in data—but is it actually helping them spend smarter? Without the right approach, excess spending, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities continue to drain profitability. While analytics offers powerful insights, financial intelligence requires more than just numbers—it takes the right blend of automation, strategy, and human expertise.
Why Meta is in the fight of its life against OpenAI and Apple
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If you want to understand what’s happening in the US stock market these days, you need to understand what’s happening with the largest companies that make up such a heavy part of the index weighting. And to do that, you have to understand Big Tech. Which is where my friend Alex Kantrowitz comes in. He’s one of the foremost authorities on everything going on in the space.
Arizona-Based Goldman PFM Advisors Jump Ship to Other RIAs
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One Arizona team has launched their own firm with the support of Dynamic Wealth Advisors, while three other advisors have joined Meridian Wealth Management.
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Connecticut Advisor Pleads Guilty to $2.7M Cherry-Picking Scheme
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Jonathan Vincent Glenn faces 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to federal securities fraud charges.
What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!
Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker
Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.
Catch me on Scott Galloway’s show
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This was a lot of fun, hope you get something interesting from it. Thanks so much to the Professor. The post Catch me on Scott Galloway’s show appeared first on The Reformed Broker.
How to Deliver an Indispensable Client Experience Through Independence
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Demographic Trends for the 50-and-Older Work Force
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Today, one in three of the 65-69 cohort, nearly one in five of the 70-74 cohort, and nearly one in ten of the 75+ cohort are in the labor force.
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Financial advisors say more clients than ever are making timing-related missteps when it comes to savings and investments.
How to Avoid Pitfalls In Automation: Keep Humans In the Loop
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Parabolic SAR Indicator : Technical analysis plays a major role in analysing the securities from both trader’s and investor’s perspectives. Among all technical indicators, the Parabolic SAR indicator has its own importance under the technical analysis of securities. Here, we shall discuss the Parabolic SAR indicator with its strategies, calculations, charts and applications.
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Small Business Optimism Dips as Inflation Remains Biggest Problem
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The headline number for the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index fell to 90.8 in September, as small business owners continued to report inflation as their biggest problem. The latest reading was worse than the forecast of 91.4 and marked the 21st straight month the index has been below the series average of 98.1.
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