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Financial Advisors 4/20/2021

It's Time to Discuss the 99.5 Percent Act With Your Clients

Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced a bill called the “For the 99.5 Percent Act.” This bill will include a change in the estate tax exemption tha...

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Financial Advisors 4/15/2021

SECURE Act 10-Year Rule May Require Annual RMDs

Since the SECURE Act’s passage in 2019, the industry has worked under the assumption that the 10-Year rule provided designated beneficiaries with o...

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Financial Advisors 4/13/2021

Building Your Business Post-COVID May Seem a Lot like Pre-COVID

As we emerge from the COVID era, you may find that people are eager to meet with you, to shake your hand. You may begin to see a keen interest in b...

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Trust 4/8/2021

Is Giving IRA to Charity the Only Alternative to Paying the Tax?

Homer wrote about the dilemma Odysseus faced as he crossed the strait of Messina. For investors with large IRAs, the SECURE Act poses a similar, Od...

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Financial Advisors 4/6/2021

How Financial Advisors Use Backlinks to Improve Their Website's SEO

SEO for financial advisors comprises of many strategies. Here are 5 ways to get backlinks to boost your website’s search ranking and bring more tra...

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Trust 4/1/2021

Eliminating the SECURE Act Tax on an IRA

Although the SECURE Act eliminated the stretch IRA strategy, IRA owners who are updating their estate plans may find a potential substitute for the...

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Financial Advisors 3/30/2021

Look Back on Your Accomplishments

The job of a financial advisor can be likened to climbing a ladder. We look upwards and are sometimes dismayed by how far away our goals seem to be.

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Trust 3/25/2021

How Leaving an IRA to Your Spouse Could Disinherit Your Kids

Leaving your IRA to your spouse may be a problem if they remarry. Assigning your spouse as the beneficiary may lead to unintentionally disinheritin...

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Client Retention 3/23/2021

Why Isn't Everyone Rich?

Many people think investing is easy. In this article, Bryce Sanders discusses seven reasons why everyone isn't rich, and how individual investors m...

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Trust 3/18/2021

IRA Planning to Capture Large IRA Assets

An Individual Retirement Account (IRA) may be one of your client’s largest assets. When leaving an IRA to a beneficiary, your client will likely tu...

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Financial Advisors 3/16/2021

Designing Your Website for Prospect Leads

As a financial advisor, you likely have a website. That’s great. But, what does it do? And how are visitors using your site? In this post, we’ll gu...

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