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Financial Planning August 1, 2007 Marshall Eckblad |
Advisor Pulse If a new survey is to be believed, advisors who help their clients with retirement planning -- and that's most of you -- will soon face a difficult choice: Change the way you service clients or watch your profits shrink. |
Financial Advisor August 2007 Tracey Longo |
What's Your Retirement Brand? Unless you're branding yourself a retirement income planning specialist and it's clear in clients' minds you're going to do retirement income planning for them, your client relationships honestly may be in peril. |
Investment Advisor March 2009 Melanie Waddell |
Cover Story: Patience In the quest to generate retirement income for their clients, many advisors relied on their investing-for-accumulation roots, and therefore were not focused on retirement income planning. |
Investment Advisor September 2009 Lewis Schiff |
The Affluentialist: Building Retirement Portfolios Now Few advisors use a cookie cutter approach to retirement income support. |
Registered Rep. October 1, 2006 Kristen French |
It's Triage Time There are millions of baby boomers zooming toward retirement who have vastly underestimated their future financial needs. In other words, for financial advisors and their clients, it's triage time. |
Investment Advisor June 1, 2011 John Sullivan |
Catching up with... Eric Henderson As senior vice president of individual investments for Nationwide Financial, he's responsible for both the consumer and plan sponsor sides of the business. |
Financial Planning October 2, 2007 Jack W. Callahan |
Embrace Change Advisors have to adapt their practices to accommodate retiring clients. |
Investment Advisor June 2007 Kara P. Stapleton |
Consolidate and Refer Fidelity Investments introduced a report showing that advisors who offer retirement income planning services have found that their clients are more satisfied, consolidate more assets with them, and provide more referrals for new business. |
Investment Advisor September 2005 Greg Salsbury |
Harvest Time As Americans live longer, advisors need to switch their emphasis from accumulating assets to making existing assets last. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2008 Stacy Schultz |
Are the Times Changing? A new study shows that 75% of advisors say they provide a written plan for their clients' retirement planning. Read on to see more specifically what they are doing. |
Investment Advisor January 2007 Savita Iyer |
DC Advisor-Sponsor Matchmaker The relative lack of corporate advisors is a result of inertia on the part of plan sponsors; despite pronouncing themselves dissatisfied with their retirement plans, plan sponsors do not take the easy step of finding a new advisor. |
Investment Advisor March 2008 Melanie Waddell |
Focus! There's plenty to think about when doing retirement planning for clients; read on for the priorities that you should be doing something about, right now. |
Investment Advisor October 2007 Lauren Barack |
The Longevity Race People are living longer. Software makers are helping advisors figure out how to make clients' portfolios last longer, too. |
Investment Advisor March 2010 Melanie Waddell |
Cover Story: Custom Job All signs point to 2010 as the year in which many substantive retirement planning reforms will either be cemented or set into motion by Congress and the Obama Administration. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2007 David Macchia |
Protect Retirement Financial advisors should pay attention to ROI -- not return on investment, but reliability of income. Planners must help clients assess the real capacity of their portfolios to generate long-term retirement income. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2008 Parisi & Leung |
Are You Prepared for the Retirement Boom? Meeting the retirement and estate planning needs of the baby boomer generation represents today's greatest growth opportunity for financial advisors. But are advisors ready for it? |
On Wall Street November 1, 2010 Gallant & Schneider |
Navigating The Retirement Business The demand for retirement income support will continue to grow rapidly in the coming years as the aging of the baby boom generation is inevitable. |
Investment Advisor March 2007 James J. Green |
Your Partners' Role In Retirement Planning Schwab Institutional CEO sees a "giant psychographic shift" and "fantastic growth opportunity" for independent advisors. |
Financial Advisor November 2011 Jim Frederick |
Building A Moat Advisors give longevity insurance another look as clients face longer life spans and financial anxiety. |
On Wall Street June 1, 2012 Larry Barrett |
The Reality of Health Care Costs Too many Americans are counting on Medicare to pay for a high portion of their health care costs in retirement. Too many pre-retirees are either ignoring or underestimating the advice they could be receiving from a financial advisor. |
Investment Advisor April 2006 Melanie Waddell |
Catch Up How financial advisors can meet the challenge of keeping pace with their clients' retirement needs in a changing world. |
On Wall Street January 1, 2010 Matthew Leung |
Getting Retirement Portfolios Back on Track Previous assumptions about asset allocation, diversification and the appropriate levels of risk in portfolios are being challenged. |
Investment Advisor April 2007 James J. Green |
Retirement Planning Balancing Act Being a financial advisor who focuses on selling and servicing corporate 401(k) plans is a matter of balance. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2010 Matthew Leung |
Here Today, Here Tomorrow - New Sources Of Income For Retirement It's official. Pensions and social security are no longer viewed as the primary sources of retirement income. |
Investment Advisor January 2007 Ivanova & Kahler |
The ABCs Of Retirees To meet the needs of retiree clients, financial advisors will need to beef up their knowledge not only of investment-related retirement issues, but also non-investment areas. |
Financial Planning September 1, 2006 David Liebrock |
Mining 401(k) Gold Small- and mid-sized companies are looking for help with their retirement plans. Here's how to reach out to this untapped market. |
Investment Advisor June 2008 Melanie Waddell |
Retirement Planning at Envestnet The former president of Ibbotson plans 401(k) advice platform for Envestnet Asset Management's newly established Retirement Services Group. |
Financial Advisor July 2008 Tracey Longo |
Can Advisors Protect Retirees From Themselves? Fear of loss and greed for gains accelerates when investors retire. This has financial services firms working overtime to find ways around investors' emotions. |
Investment Advisor November 2007 |
News & Products Second wave of products help address the retirement income conundrum... Fidelity Investments has unveiled a group of retirement income products... etc. |
On Wall Street July 1, 2010 John Papadopulos |
The Harsh Reality Of The 30-Year Retirement Many people just don't think about longevity risk and income planning, and some never even consider the risk that the money they save for retirement might not be enough to sustain them for the rest of their lives. |
Financial Advisor June 2005 Dorothy Hinchcliff |
The Retirement Boom The 2005 Financial Advisor Retirement Planning Symposium hears of scenarios and solutions for the coming boomer retirees. |
Registered Rep. July 5, 2012 Lauren Barack |
Let it Ride? Hardly. New software addresses the security needs of risk-weary investors approaching retirement. Financial advisors who ignore these concerns risk watching assets walk out the door. |
Investment Advisor March 2007 Melanie Waddell |
Leading the Way This year is shaping up into one in which advisors will have to stay compliant with a plethora of retirement planning rules and regs if they expect to stay firmly rooted in the retirement planning arena -- and doing what's best for their clients. |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2004 Chris O'Leary |
The Dawn of the Retirement Age Financial advisors and market analysts agree that as baby boomers begin to retire later this decade and throughout the 2010s, many retirees remain dangerously uninformed about how much annual income they will need and about how to manage their investments. |
Registered Rep. August 12, 2011 Diana Britton |
Retirement Income Fever The industry has responded to the great wave of retirees that has just begun with an increased focus on creating retirement income streams -- successfully. It's always a tough feat, what with expanding life expectancies and estimating health care needs far out in the future. |
On Wall Street January 1, 2012 John Diehl |
Lifting The Cloud Over Annuities Anyone who sells annuities knows two things to be true: annuities can deliver significant value to clients and they are also one of the most misunderstood financial products on the market. |
Investment Advisor February 2009 Angela Herbers |
Advisor, Heal Thyself Good advice to advisors these days is that they revise their own financial plans. |
Investment Advisor July 2008 Melanie Waddell |
Drivers of Annuity Sales Assets in annuities will jump to $2.9 trillion by 2012 -- a compound annual growth rate of 7.9% -- sparked by demographic trends and product development that addresses both guaranteed income and principal protection. |
Financial Advisor October 2007 William Glasgall |
The New Retirement Wave Planners will need to seek innovative ways to help keep the baby boomers from exhausting their nest eggs. |
On Wall Street October 1, 2010 |
Letters Most people think that health care reform will solve many of the problems facing retirees and people about to retire. Nothing could be further from the truth. Financial advisors need to be prepared to talk about health care costs. |
The Motley Fool April 21, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Don't Let the Doomsayers Destroy Your Retirement Now more than ever, many investors don't believe that they'll have enough to be financially independent during their senior years -- and they're planning on taking some draconian steps to remedy it. |
Financial Planning February 1, 2008 Elizabeth O'Brien |
Retirement Income: The New Solutions The boomer retirement wave is here, and so are new products designed to turn their hoarded assets into cash flow. |
On Wall Street October 1, 2009 E. Thomas Foster Jr. |
Seek Opportunities to Help Employers With Retirement Plans Financial advisors whose business clients sponsor 401(k) or other defined contribution plans can provide critical assistance in helping educate both plan sponsors as well as participants in making the most of their retirement plans. |
On Wall Street July 1, 2009 Doug Dannemiller |
Advisors Face Competition from Do-it-Yourselfers Advisors face growing competition from web-based retirement planning services catering to the do-it-yourself instincts of the baby boomers. |
On Wall Street April 1, 2010 |
Five Questions with Robert Arena Bob Arena is well aware that baby boomers are juggling their own retirement needs against school expenses of children and living costs of parents and talks about how advisors can help their clients handle all these responsibilities. |
Investment Advisor November 2006 |
Now and Then When it comes to plowing through the complexities that are associated with retirement planning, advisors need all the help they can get. Fidelity looks ahead to dominate retirement planning now. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2008 Jack Sharry |
When You Say "Tomato," Do Clients Hear "To-Mah-to"? Perceptions become reality on an individual basis, and your clients' perceptions of the economy are not good. What should you do about this situation? |
Registered Rep. May 20, 2011 Diana Britton |
Fee-Only FAs Positioned Well to Capture Retirement Plan Assets Fee-only financial advisors are well-positioned to capture retirement plan clients because of their fee transparency and their business model's alignment with ERISA. |
Registered Rep. December 4, 2012 Gallant & Schneider |
Are We There Yet? No, But FAs Can Help. In Search of Retirement Income Many advisors mistakenly believe that retirement income clients are a diminishing asset, not recognizing that these clients tend to consolidate investments and to be more loyal. |
Registered Rep. June 1, 2008 Stan Luxenberg |
Pay It Out Now that the Baby Boomer generation is retiring in droves, fund companies are focusing on a thorny question: How can retirees obtain reliable income from their investments? |