Weekend Studying For Monetary Planners (October 7-8)

Benefit from the present installment of “Weekend Studying For Monetary Planners” – this week’s version kicks off with the information {that a} latest survey discovered that shoppers throughout a number of nations who work with a CFP skilled have higher outcomes on a variety of measures in comparison with these working with different advisors or no advisor in any respect, suggesting that the potential advantages of gaining CFP certification can accrue not solely to the advisor themselves, but additionally to their shoppers.

Additionally in trade information this week:

• A brand new advisor benchmarking examine signifies that high-growth corporations are excelling in 3 areas: shopper acquisition, “relationship alpha”, and strategic scale
• A latest survey signifies that whereas advisors more and more are leveraging residence workplace funding fashions to avoid wasting time and scale extra effectively, they usually customise them to satisfy their shoppers’ distinctive wants

From there, we have now a number of articles on retirement planning:

• Why “unretiring” doesn’t essentially need to imply going again to work full-time or in a single’s former trade
• The motivations for people who’ve reached ‘conventional’ retirement age to maintain working and the way advisors can assist shoppers who’re contemplating this determination 
• How volunteering provides a variety of psychological and bodily advantages to retirees and the place they will discover alternatives of their neighborhood

We even have quite a lot of articles on shopper communication:

• Finest practices for advisors in dealing with tough shopper communication situations
• How advisors can add worth to shoppers by serving to them overcome “selection overload”
• The advantages of proactively informing shoppers about adjustments to an advisor’s enterprise and the way advisors can construction and ship these messages

We wrap up with 3 closing articles, all about defining wealth:

• How defining wealth by way of what a person “can do” somewhat than as an arbitrary quantity might help shoppers higher perceive the “why” of their monetary choices
• How wealth will be considered one’s skill to regulate their time
• How thinkers over the centuries have outlined “sufficient” and what their conclusions imply for people at present 

Benefit from the ‘mild’ studying!

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