Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

While home sales and consumer spending have slowed since pandemic-related restrictions ended in early 2023, banks have been busy brainstorming, designing, and introducing clever business strategies, investment paths, and customer services to support and reinvigorate their sector.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 1, 2025

Also in industry news this week: A recent study projects that, despite the anticipated wave of retirements among Boomer advisors, advisor headcounts in the RIA channel will actually rise in the coming years as those retirements spur M&A activity that tends to favor firms moving from the broker-dealer channel over to the RIA side New data from FINRA (..)

Tax Planning

Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 30, 2024

We start with several articles on retirement planning: Why considering a client's retirement time horizon and spending flexibility could lead to more accurate (and often higher) safe withdrawal rates than the simpler "4% rule" Four unique risks retirees face when drawing down their assets, from sequence of returns risk to tax risk, and how financial (..)

Tax Planning

Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Taxes are a central component of financial planning. Almost every financial planning issue – whether it is retirement, investments, cash flow, insurance, or estate planning – has tax considerations, and advisors provide a great deal of value in helping clients minimize their overall tax burden.

Tax Planning

Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 2, 2023

From there, the latest highlights also feature a number of other interesting advisor technology announcements, including: Holistiplan, after achieving success with its tax planning and analysis software, has announced an investment from Lead Edge Capital, signaling that it may be ready to expand into other financial planning areas beyond tax – (..)

Communication

Nerd's Eye View

MAY 31, 2024

Going beyond FPA’s existing PlannerSearch tool, the narrowed-down list is meant to help consumers identify a focused subset of the most reputable planners.

Tax Planning

Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 7, 2024

Also in industry news this week: Backers announced the new Texas Stock Exchange, which seeks to provide companies with a lower-cost alternative to the NYSE and Nasdaq, which, if successful, could create a more competitive landscape and potentially better execution and reduced trading costs for financial advisors and their clients The American College (..)

Concentration

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.

Planning

CFO Plans

AUGUST 9, 2024

Financial consulting for real estate offers tailored advice on investment strategies, cash flow management, and property valuation. Tip: Conduct regular market analysis with your consultant to stay ahead of industry trends and make informed investment decisions. Optimize your tax planning with expert services.

Accounting

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Michael Kitces is Head of Planning Strategy at Buckingham Wealth Partners , a turnkey wealth management services provider supporting thousands of independent financial advisors. Estate planning is commonly a big point of discussion, as well. Author: Michael Kitces. Team Kitces. The larger the wealth, the more dollars that are at stake.

Communication

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.

Planning

CFO Plans

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Fractional CFOs usually have a network of professionals providing outsourced tax preparation services, business tax planning services, and accounting and finance consulting. Explore comprehensive financial support with CFO Plans. Drive your business growth with CFO Plans.

CFO

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.

Planning

CFO Share

JULY 13, 2023

Growth planning should include your executive team and a CPA for tax planning purposes. Pause or cancel capital investments like new equipment purchases. Shifting investment focus from growth to efficiency. Ineffective communication of financial results creates conflict and inefficiencies.

CFO

The CFO College

APRIL 8, 2021

Investing time and money every month into expanding your “VIP” could increase your revenue, especially if you commit to doing something to work on these three areas for one hour a day. Invest a little time every day and eventually you’ll start to see peers and clients looking to you as a viable leader.

CFO

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Taxes are a central component of financial planning. Almost every financial planning issue – whether it is retirement, investments, cash flow, insurance, or estate planning – has tax considerations, and advisors provide a great deal of value in helping clients minimize their overall tax burden.

Tax Planning

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Let’s talk a little bit about your alternative investments career. And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven.

Investments

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.

Education

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

However, by creating a systematic annual process to monitor and update client plans based on seasons, not only can advisors save time and work more efficiently, but they can also communicate the value of ongoing financial planning services to prospects and clients more effectively. Author: Kyle Moore. Guest Contributor.

Planning

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. Many advisors are accustomed to using verbal communication with clients (e.g.,

Planning

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 19, 2022

That group provides investment services, education and research to more than a thousand financial advisory firms, representing more than $3 trillion in assets. People may not even really understood that they own the company, you know, by investing in the funds in the company. They’ll do tax planning, right?

Investments

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. Author: Michael Kitces. Team Kitces. So that was a very easy transition for our clients.

Planning

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 ). Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk | InvestmentNews).

Planning

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Or should I have the advisors not worry about the workflows, communicate with their CSA the way that they prefer to communicate with the CSA, and then have the CSA spend the time putting the workflow together, and then let the advisor go on to the next client and give that very high-level customer service that are clients are very used to having?

Restructuring

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).

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

How fundamental was that to your learning about investing, trading risk management, starting with futures? And look, one of the reasons I went into this job was taxes. You know, I also had, you know, my, my chief of staff, my chief of communications, Ashley Hickeys, she, she was over the top amazing.

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