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How Advisors Can Work With Attorneys To Drive Better Estate Planning Outcomes For Clients

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Financial advisors add value for their clients not only by helping them grow their wealth, but also by working with them to create a plan for how to use it. While much of this process may focus on the client's own lifetime planning needs (e.g., With this in mind, many financial advisors offer estate planning guidance to clients.

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A Recordkeeping Checklist For Financial Planning Services: Proactive Documentation Of Service Delivery To Reduce Regulatory Scrutiny

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While state and Federal regulations clearly outline recordkeeping requirements for areas like financials, advertisements, and trading records, there is a notable gap when it comes to documenting the delivery of services – especially financial planning services – necessary to justify the fees charged for those services.

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Kitces & Carl Ep 154: The Limits Where Technology Can’t Scale Financial Planning Advice

Nerd's Eye View

Just a few decades ago, giving financial advice was largely a manual process – printing lengthy financial plans, processing physical checks, and managing paper files. These conversations are often emotional and vulnerable, requiring a sense of safety built on years of trust that technology simply can't replicate.

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Social Security Fairness Act: Planning Considerations For The Repeal Of The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) And Government Pension Offset (GPO)

Nerd's Eye View

This lack of clarity made retirement planning significantly more challenging. The key point is that while the WEP and GPO only affected a certain subset of retirees and spouses, these provisions made planning more complex for those impacted. Read More.

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How to Make the Hybrid Model Work for Your Team

How Globalization Partners’ technology can enable a hybrid game plan. Download the eBook to learn more about: What the hybrid model of work is. How to choose the right hybrid model for your company.

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How Much Does Having The ‘Right’ Capital Market Assumptions Matter In Retirement Planning?

Nerd's Eye View

Advisors want to help clients set a secure, reliable retirement plan, yet even the most comprehensive assumptions will inevitably deviate from reality at least to some degree. The good news is that CMAs can still provide a range of realistic spending limits, and, even better, most financial plans are not static one-and-done roadmaps.

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Making Estate Planning More Tax Efficient And Equitable For Beneficiaries By NOT Just Splitting The Assets Evenly

Nerd's Eye View

Consequently, when in estate planning, thinking about how to divide their assets after their death, they often aim to simply apportion the whole pot among their beneficiaries, without regard to the nature of each individual asset.

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Long-Term Care Considerations in Estate Planning

This article explores the impact of medical/LTC expenses on estate planning objectives, and discusses strategies to keep assets flexible to address needs that may arise while satisfying the objective of transferring wealth to designated beneficiaries.

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Global Growth Playbook: Scaling a Remote-First Company

Today, one in three employees prefer working from home over working from the office, and nearly half of companies plan to continue offering some form of remote work flexibility to their employees. How Globalization Partners can help implement a remote-first plan. Experience the Benefits of a Remote-First Workforce.

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Confronting the Change Challenge

Learning Objectives: This course objective is to understand how to initiate, plan for, and welcome change to maintain competitiveness in the marketplace. We will discuss how to address the "change challenge" to enable you to be a changemaker and a graceful recipient of change. Field of Study: Personal Development. Recommended CPE: 1 CPE.

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Navigating Financial Storms: Strategies for Building Resilient Balance Sheets

Speaker: Carolina Aponte - Owner and CEO, Caja Holdings LLC

Additionally, companies need to adopt a long-term perspective and engage in rigorous financial planning to identify potential risks and opportunities. By implementing these strategies, companies can build a resilient balance sheet that can weather economic storms and position themselves for long-term success.