The Rise Of Financial Wellness Apps
Financial wellness is not necessarily related to being wealthy or even rich. It is about being on top of your finances and moving towards your financial goals. It requires being financially literate and having good control of your expenses.
31st Annual Retirement Confidence Survey
Are workers delaying retirement because of the pandemic? What about those who currently work with financial advisors? The closer to the end of their working life, the more people start...Read More
Quick User Guide – Prospects of Wealth
Find a prospect in your area using our search tool Search by a zip code in your area. You can also put in some radius.Choose the source: Executives (the database...Read More
The Pandemic and Participants
«Most Americans (69%) describe themselves as proactive or planners—and 64% either have a plan or have thought in detail about how to afford their desired lifestyle in retirement».
RiXtrema Responds to Riskalyze: Conclusive Proof
More on Riskalyze interest rate stress tests & ‘wildly inaccurate’ predictions? Yesterday, Riskalyze published some attacks on methodologies of their competitors, specifically RiXtrema and Hidden Levers. The day of...Read More
It’s Official. ESG is Inevitable.
Environmental, Social, and Governance is the hot new thing this year. Investors are increasingly applying these non-financial factors in their analysis to identify material risks and growth opportunities.
Election Day Commentary
If you have followed the polls you know that it is widely expected that Joe Biden will be the next president of the US. Two well-known poll aggregators, FiveThirtyEight and the Economist give Biden a 90% and 97% chance of victory on the eve of the election.
Lazy, Lazy, Lazy…Making Election Predictions Based on Faulty Assumptions
Still, so far, so good, nothing about that is particularly disagreeable. I can also envision some serious market volatility if the 2020 election is contested depending on circumstances.
Is the Prospect of a Biden Win Powering the Yuan?
People have been asking (a lot) for election scenarios. What will markets do if Biden wins? What will they do if Trump wins? And I have covered those topics here and here. As time ticks on and the situation changes (Supreme Court vacancy anyone?), prognostications may become further removed from actual results.
Are you a 21st Century Wealth Advisor?
As I wrote before, the Coronavirus lockdown was a beta test for remote work, but it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. The question falls to all of us:“Am I measuring up to my competition and adapting to the new environment?”Advisors don’t have to look far to learn where the industry is going. Before the lockdown forced all of us to see the potential in working remotely, Broadridge reached some startling conclusions about technology use by financial advisors. They surveyed 1,500 investment providers, including 250 wealth advisors, to find, in general, that they are not taking advantage of the benefits and high ROI of technological adoption.