CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What’s unique about Anh, though, is how, as a solo advisor, she differentiates her firm by leveraging the combination of a high-touch concierge approach to client service with a unique investment management approach through the use of very carefully chosen structured notes to differentiate her portfolio design from other advisors.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Financial Planning. 101 Things That Advisors Actually DO To Add Value (Beyond Just Allocating A Portfolio) – Traditionally, investment planning has been at the forefront of how financial advisors add value for their clients.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 30, 2022

We also have a number of articles on investments: Fixed-income ETFs saw inflows this year, while their mutual fund counterparts experienced significant outflows, suggesting that the dominance of bond mutual funds could be eroding. Why a higher interest rate environment could represent a ‘sea change’ for investors in the years ahead.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 17, 2022

But in the world of financial advice, there so far has been little regulation on advisor titles ( unless someone tries to call themselves an “investment counselor”, which ironically is still regulated under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 ). But many firms will find that their client referral rates are flat. Darius Foroux).

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

So for advisors who feel overwhelmed with the range of responsibilities they have in a given week, implementing a systematic annual planning process based on seasons can not only provide more structure to their processes, but also provide a better experience – not only for their clients, but also for their work teams – in the process!

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

He has had a passion for finance and planning since high school, when he first started investing and doing his own taxes. Assuming a 6% return on her invested principal, Dawn can expect to have a total balance of about $61,275 by age 25. Jack is a teacher at a local high school, and Morgan is an investment analyst.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

But alongside those advantages, there are some specific rules and regulations that are unique to solo 401(k) plans, which can add to the complexity of setting up and maintaining a plan. And for advisors who serve self-employed clients, managing a solo 401(k) plan is often a different process than managing other types of investments.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

And that takes you down a road of increasingly complex or sophisticated investment vehicles, the move towards alternatives, the move towards private equity and hedge funds and a lot of different things that get done with the portfolios of high-net-worth clients. Estate planning is commonly a big point of discussion, as well.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And then in July 1 of this year, we launched our own registered investment advisor. So, Envision Financial Planning is a registered investment advisor, we’re SEC registered, but we stayed within the Commonwealth ecosystem. So I figured, I had to hold on to the CFO role, because I also am a CPA.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The compensation, ultimately, was dependent on a mix of products, and then the investment revenue coming in. And most people have very underserved in a risk management perspective, so you can place the right insurance products along with investments and get a whole financial plan going. The culture was very product driven.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Emily is the Senior Financial Planner for Archer Investment Management, a virtual Independent RIA based in Austin, Texas, that oversees $170 million of assets under management for nearly 170 families. And so, ultimately, I… Michael: Not actually that deep on your business succession planning experience as a 20-year-old.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Dan is a Partner and the Chief Investment Officer at Capasso Planning Partners, a rapidly growing independent RIA based in Charleston, South Carolina that oversees about $250 million of assets under management for 300 client households across the country that are all served virtually. Executive Summary. Dan: It’s interesting.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Jeffrey Levine, CPA/PFS, CFP, AIF, CWS, MSA is the Lead Financial Planning Nerd for Kitces.com , a leading online resource for financial planning professionals, and also serves as the Chief Planning Officer for Buckingham Strategic Wealth. Notably, the language of SECURE Act 2.0

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

And the four pillars are the financial plan, risk management, so just checking all their what-if scenarios that something…a husband dies, wife dies, long-term care, disability. And then we look at estate planning. And then in the fall, we look at tax planning. The other one, he’d been there maybe four years.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Separately, the DoL this week finalized a rule to explicitly permit retirement plan fiduciaries to consider Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors when selecting investments and exercising shareholder rights (e.g., Meb Faber Research).

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

A potential compromise during the lame-duck Congressional session could see a boost to the child tax credit and extended tax breaks for businesses. From there, we have several articles on tax planning: How advisors can add value for their clients by managing their exposure to mutual fund capital gains distributions.

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