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The Best Of Weekend Reading 2023: Top 25 Articles You Might Have Missed

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Each week in Weekend Reading For Financial Planners, we seek to bring you synopses and commentaries on 12 articles covering news for financial advisors including topics covering technical planning, practice management, advisor marketing, career development, and more.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (May 13-14)

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The study also highlighted the importance of advisors taking the time to build trust with clients and to understand a client’s goals and needs, as this can not only differentiate an advisor from those providing purely transactional investment advice, but also could promote client retention, even in years of poor market performance.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Oct 15-16)

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While this will help seniors keep pace with rising prices, it also creates tax planning opportunities for advisors and raises the possibility that the Social Security Trust Fund could be depleted sooner than expected. for 2023, the largest COLA since 1981. Why accounting firms have become hot acquisition targets for RIAs.

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Offering Tax Preparation As A Solo Advisor: How To Attain Designations And Create A Schedule By Next Tax Season

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investment reviews in the summer, retirement projection updates in the fall, and year-end tax planning in the winter) created enough efficiency through systematizing the ongoing financial planning process that allowed him to fit in tax preparation without reducing any of his other service offerings! Read More.

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101 Ways Financial Advisors Can Add Value For Their Clients

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Traditionally, investment planning has been at the forefront of how financial advisors add value for their clients. But, with the rise of index funds and the commoditization of investment advice, generating sufficient investment ‘alpha’ to justify a fee has become more challenging for advisors.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (March 11-12)

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While the budget almost certainly will face stiff resistance in a divided Congress, proposals that could affect financial advisors and their clients include increasing the top income and capital gains tax rates, raising the Net Investment Income Tax rate and applying it to pass-through income, and increasing the amount of the child tax credit.

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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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