Sleepwalking with the 2019 Global Risk Report
The Global Risks Report 2019, published by the World Economic Forum, was released on January 15, 2019. It is the perfect report to read on a dreary winter afternoon and...Read More
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9 Epic Content Marketing Implementation Points For Advisors Like You
Today I would like to review a great book that changed the way I approach marketing and in fact revolutionized our business. I am talking about Epic Content Marketing by...Read More
How Facebook Exploits You & What It Means For Your Portfolio
Facebook is not free. Essentially Facebook earns money by making you do work! Don’t believe me? Check out some of these headlines: Facebook’s making more money per user in North...Read More
John Bogle – The Missing Narrative
RIP John Bogle – Warrior For The True Free Market John Bogle is dead at 89. Of course, every headline hails him as the founder of Vanguard group and a...Read More
New Portfolio Crash Test Scenario: Hard Brexit
If the UK Government fails to approve the deal negotiated by PM May before March 29, 2019, that could trigger “Hard Brexit”. This would potentially cause severe short term (and...Read More
Case Study: How to Use Comparisons to Alert Complacent Plan Sponsors
Plan sponsors are busy people and generally busy people are actively looking for more things to do. So, it is understandable if a plan sponsor is so content with the current state of their 401k that they don’t welcome the task of dealing with a new advisor who is recommending changes.One of our advisors asked how we could help them get through to a plan sponsor that is resisting the notion that the plan needs changes?
Case Study: Creating Powerful Benchmarking Charts to Illustrate How a Plan Ranks
The Ask: The client wants to be able to better analyze their prospects for their 401(k) business. Our client asked us for help in contextualizing pertinent plan statistics and data...Read More
How Amazon of 2018 is Facebook of 2015 & What Happens Next?
Amazon Inc. just passed Apple and Microsoft as the highest valued company in the world. Virtually nobody is surprised by this. But we all should be. After all, this is...Read More
15 Weekly Stats for Financial Advisors: Week of January 21, 2019
Matt Meyer and Michael Robinson are founders of The BluePrint Insurance Services. Their mission is to be the premier insurance partner for RIAs and comprehensive financial advisors. The BluePrint provides...Read More
Video: A value investor in the world of zero interest rates and high frequency trading
We have done this deep research and created this amazing piece of intellectual deep thinking. Now we know what active value managers felt for the past 9 years! This is...Read More
Hard Brexit vs Cool Brexit: How Will Each Impact Your Clients’ Portfolios?
The news that Prime Minister Teresa May’s Brexit deal was rejected by Parliament was not particularly surprising to anyone, including PM May. But ‘rejected’ doesn’t begin to put the loss...Read More
Case Study: Selecting and Monitoring Target Date Funds
Target Date Funds or TDFs, became a big part of the retirement process. At this point, TDFs represent around 20% of all 401(k) plan assets and approximately 50% of all...Read More