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101 Ways Financial Advisors Can Add Value For Their Clients

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Tax Planning. In addition to managing investments, tax planning is another area where advisors can demonstrate their value in dollar terms. This often starts with reviewing the client’s tax return to ensure they received the credits and deductions for which they were eligible.

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Leveraging Structured Notes To Differentiate A Solo Practice

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And so, that’s how this actually started was, at first, I knew I wanted to just get a deeper dive into our numbers, into our business, our process, and, so, I engaged in the CFO solutions services. And so, that was where I found the gap is that the CFO would identify all these things. Michael: Interesting. ” Right?

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How Advisors Can Create An Annual Financial Planning Process

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How confident are they that no year-end-tax-planning opportunities were missed across their entire client base? How easily can most advisors figure out the last time they reviewed their clients’ LTC, life, and disability needs? Or whether all Roth and backdoor Roth contributions were made by eligible clients?

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

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From there, we have several articles on practice management: Why it is important for advisors charging on a fee-for-service basis to regularly reassess their pricing, and best practices for letting current clients know about a fee increase. But many firms will find that their client referral rates are flat.

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Resetting Work/Life Balance By Getting Paid For Expertise

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And one of the flyers that came out said that I did estate planning, and tax planning, and business succession planning, and all these things I didn’t know anything about. And so, it’s essentially a six-person team, then, like founder, practice manager, CSA, two paraplanners, and you? Emily: Yup.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Nov 19-20) 2022

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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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