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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Aug 6-7)

Nerd's Eye View

Also in industry news this week: A study suggests that a significant number of brokers who are disciplined by FINRA are engaging in ‘regulatory arbitrage’ by moving to state-regulated insurance companies, making it more difficult for consumers to learn about their past infractions.

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What your clients may not know about annuity taxation

Nationwide Financial

Key Takeaways: Annuity living benefit riders can provide a consistent income stream to clients in retirement. Distributions from the annuity with a living benefit rider will be taxed differently depending on the type of account and whether or not the benefit requires annuitization. NONQUALIFIED ANNUITIES.

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What Do Financial Adviser Designations Mean? What are the Letters after a Name?

Carson Wealth

So much of our world is filled with abbreviations surrounding insurance and investment products, processes, education and accomplishments. . Translating from the secret language of financial planning, the sentence would read “Tammy specializes in insurance. Life Insurance. iv There are hundreds of specialized designations.

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Tips to Help Clients Build Financial Security

Nationwide Financial

Financial security can mean different things to different people, but in general having an emergency fund is a good place to start, and slowly building toward other financial products like banking products, life insurance, retirement savings. Auto and home insurance can help protect those savings if the client’s car or home are damaged.

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Can I Retire With 500k? Food For Thought

Clever Girl Finance

Like so many financial topics, the answer is maybe. An annuity is an insurance produc t. You can think of it as income insurance if you outlive your regular income. Annuities work by converting an initial premium investment into regular payments in retirement. However, annuities can be costly. The good news?

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Does being a fiduciary financial advisor REALLY matter – or is it “meh?”

Sara Grillo

I have a newsletter in which I talk about financial advisor lead generation topics which is best described as “fun and irreverent.” The broker-dealer and insurance industries are still built around being opaque. Insurance is opaque. For those of you who are new to my blog, my name is Sara. Commissions are opaque.

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Don’t poison your clients’ portfolios with Direct Indexing!

Sara Grillo

I have a weekly newsletter in which I talk about financial advisor lead generation topics which is best described as “fun and irreverent.” Just like whole life insurance, annuities, private equity, hedge funds, and interval funds (did I miss anything?), For those of you who are new to my blog/podcast, my name is Sara.