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The 4 Keys to Building a 100% Remote Bookkeeping Practice

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You’ll also want to stay current on successful brands, along with trending operations, metrics, and benchmarking. Implement an Easy-to-Use, Effective Marketing System. That’s basic marketing, and a skill you are capable of if you just take the time to understand your prospects before reaching out.

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101 Ways Financial Advisors Can Add Value For Their Clients

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Because the advisor’s target client will probably only have certain planning needs (and may not require others), advisors can offer the value-adds from the hundreds of options available that best serve this target client. Adam is an Associate Financial Planning Nerd at Kitces.com. Author: Adam Van Deusen. Team Kitces.

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

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navigate a volatile market environment (in both stocks and bonds – oof!) 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.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Dec 17-18) 2022

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We also have a number of articles on retirement planning: While weak stock and bond market performance has challenged advisors and their clients this year, these trends have likely increased the ‘safe’ withdrawal rate for new retirees. But many firms will find that their client referral rates are flat. sequence of return risk ).

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Strategic Finance Focus at Year-End

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Tax Planning is Beneficial and Essential A wise person once said that failing to plan is planning to fail. This is certainly true in the area of taxation, where there are often opportunities to legally minimize or defer the timing of tax payments and to claim income tax credits.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

I didn’t know a whole lot about markets or stocks. ” But I really had an interest in trying to work directly in markets. So I worked at a private equity firm, that middle market private equity firm Yale had money with. SEIDES: But market returns across — RITHOLTZ: The past decade, 2010 to 2020, we were what?

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Connecting With Ultra-HNW Heirs By Fostering Family Trust

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Estate planning is commonly a big point of discussion, as well. And for most advisors that takes us down a road of tax planning and lots of different types of trusts and family limited partnerships and GRATs and IDGTs and all the different strategies that are out there, or at least as long as Congress lets us keep playing those games.