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2022 Best-Of Highlights From The Nerd’s Eye View Blog

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10 Key Performance Indicators For Financial Advisory Firms To Compare With Industry Benchmarking Studies – Industry benchmarking studies can be a valuable tool for advisory firm owners to make better business decisions. The key point is that firm owners can use benchmarking data to better understand how they can improve their business.

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101 Ways Financial Advisors Can Add Value For Their Clients

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Along with designing a client’s asset allocation , optimizing asset location is another way advisors can add value as putting different investments in taxable versus tax-deferred accounts can have a significant impact on after-tax returns. Tax Planning. donor-advised funds or qualified charitable distributions ).

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

SEIDES: If the S&P is your benchmark, which it isn’t for these pools of capital. RITHOLTZ: What should be their benchmark? So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. So what do you use for a benchmark? 14, 15% a year? RITHOLTZ: Right.