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Measuring Market Sentiment: Reading the Competition
By Ryan Zabrowski
There are four main indicators or data sets advisors should evaluate and compare prior to making investment decisions on behalf of their clients. By weighing these indicators and comparing them to their historic counterparts, an advisor can assess whether the probability of a significant market decline is lower or higher than normal.

 

Hiring Virtually: Focus on Qualifications, Not Location
By Alex Hopkin, CFP^®
Hiring is a top concern for many financial planning firms. It is a hot topic in our industry, with concerns that there is a lack of qualified talent. What if you focused solely on the key qualifications and removed the location dependency? Applications soar. 

 

Third Grade Math and Retirement Contributions
By James L. Evans, CFP^®, QPA, QKA, ChSNC 
Often, industry articles imply that saving for retirement via a Roth type contribution is almost always more beneficial than the traditional retirement savings option. Although I understand the many concepts and arguments in favor of this type of approach, I thought it might be beneficial to do the math.

 

Build Your List, Engage Your List: Advisors' #1 Marketing Priority in 2025
By Zach McDonald
If you want to invest in the most reliable marketing channel—go with your subscriber list. With so many marketing channels available today, why focus on subscriber list, that seemingly outdated, old-as-the-internet tool? There are several reasons your list should be a top priority but the core of the issue is that the internet is becoming more and more unpredictable.

 

Four Key Issues of the SEC Marketing Rule
By Thomas D. Giachetti, Esq. and Joseph C. Antonakakis, Esq.
The amended Marketing Rule, part of the Investment Advisers Act, has now been in effect for nearly three years. Unfortunately, too much confusion and bad advice has resulted. We continue to do our best to simplify SEC rules and its related guidance to make it more understandable for the industry. We focus in this article on the four key issues addressed in the rule.

 

Our Tech-Forward Future
By Bob Veres
Advisory firms are going to completely turn over their tech stack, perhaps more than once, over the next five to 10 years, depending on how bold they are and how closely they want to approach the bleeding edge. And this process will be far easier in terms of staff training and mastery of the new tech than it ever was before.