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Exceptions To The 10-Year Rule On Inherited Qualified Plan Assets

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The Secure Act’s 10-year distribution rule on federally qualified inherited retirement accounts exempts widows, children, chronically ill and disabled individuals. They’re specified as “eligible designated beneficiaries” in the Secure Act.     

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Financial Education For Financial Planning Clients

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With tax rates expected to be going up, and the stock market breaking records for 11 months, retirement savers should proactively investigate converting to a Roth IRA in 2021.

Are you alerting your clients and prospects that this to this tax-smart retirement investor move must get done by the end of 2021?  

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Why Professionals Should Break The Rules Of Financial Advisor Marketing

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This week’s video breaks traditional rules of financial advisor marketing.  It is long (four minutes). It’s also detailed, and it delivers bad news for wealthy people ,who are going to face much higher taxes in 2021. 

Why are we breaking the rules? Because traditional financial services marketing is not what a an investment, tax, financial planning professional needs in this pivotal moment in financial history.

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Two Observations That May Make Higher Taxes Easier To Bear

For the first time since the administration of President Ronald Reagan, federal tax policy is changing. You need to warn clients and friends, but how can you do it?

With Congress debating President Biden’s proposal for a massive increase in federal infrastructure spending, two observations by independent economist, Fritz Meyer, may make higher taxes easier to bear for your clients. Presenting facts and historical perspective is the right approach for financial professionals.

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Advisor Marketing Is An Oxymoron To Fiduciaries

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Financial advisor marketing is oxymoronic. Like jumbo shrimp, mini-strokes, and private clubs, it is not the way a fiduciary should approach external communications using modern tools. For private wealth advisors, a better way is to educate clients continually.

Financial consumers are bombarded constantly by ideas diverting them from the personal tax and financial planning strategy carefully crafted by you, the professional advice you authored to build a sustainable low-expense core portfolio and keep them in front of opportunities and pitfalls amid the first reversal in federal tax policy since the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980.  

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Advisor Marketing Dashboard Adds A Downloadable Content Option

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Whether you need a comprehensive content marketing dashboard to manage a private wealth advisory's external communications or just a monthly subscription to a thought leadership article you can download into Word weekly, Advisor Products Inc. (API) has a solution. 

Integrated Marketing Solutions. API's marketing dashboard is a comprehensive content management system for private wealth advisors. Websites, newsletters, and social network posts are integrated with API content, automating marketing tasks for professional financial services firms.        

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Generating The Right Leads

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One of this week’s financial planning articles is the subject of this 2½-minute video about our platform for advisors; it shows advisors how to generate the right leads.

Leads that are attracted to your firm for the right reasons are the right kind of leads. They are a small percentage of contacts who value your news stream about tax and financial planning.

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RIA Marketing Using A Long Lens Of History

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Consumers are shown why it is crucially important to view financial news through a long lens of history in this 90-second video.

It not only tells investors about the value of a professional who knows history, but it also demonstrates it.

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Fritz Meyer’s Scorecard Of S&P 500 Sector Predictions By Wall Street Strategists

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Following the advice of Wall Street’s best minds resulted in huge losses at key inflection points, and Wall Street's ability to forecast the S&P 500 is too unreliable to be helpful and not even close to accurate. 

That's the conclusion of an independent economist who has tracked the predictions of Wall Street top strategists’ in Barron’s every year since 2007. 

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New RIA Marketing Rules Not A Problem With The Right Tech Platform

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 For the third time in 80 years, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, advertising and sales rules were amended  on Dec 22. 2020. RIAs are not required to comply with the new rules for 18 months. However, the new rules enable RIAs to use of testimonials and investment performance in marketing, provided you meet a more-explicit disclosure requirement.  Growth-minded RIAs, within a couple of weeks, can start using the new rules to market using testimonials, third-party rating services, and performance.    

Adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission on Dec. 22, 2020, the new rules have practical implications for how advisors use LinkedIn, Yelp, and other social media.  Books and recordkeeping rules also have been modernized.

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When Advisors Report Breaking News To Clients

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The $325 billion in aid to business owners enacted into law is a good example of how Advisor Products is different from other marketing vendors. Our platform is built for delivering urgent important news to your clients, prospects and referral sources.

The platform is built to enable financial advisors to be better sources of financial news than mainstream media outlets. For example, by the time President Trump signed the $900 billion stimulus and relief bill on Dec. 27, 2020, a 50-minute presentation by Bob Keebler, CPA/PFS, was posted in our marketing dashboard for advisors to download. The transcribed presentation by one of the nation’s leading tax educators includes 60 slides. Bob Keebler’s slide cost just $600 a year and is one small part of the Advisor Products content marketing dashboard.

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Advisor Content In A Post-Truth World

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Yes, facts still do matter! In its Q3 2020 financials, The New York Times reported surpassing seven-million paid subscribers in October. 

Even in this difficult stage of the information explosion --  a post-truth world -- people value good journalism. They'll even pay for it! 

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Private Wealth Communications

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In advising business owners, professionals, and intergenerational family wealth, CFA®, CFP®, CIMA®, CPA, and other professionals have an obligation to educate their clients about tax and investment strategies. It’s just the right thing to do, if you're a fiduciary doing what's in your clients' best interest.

This approach is very different from traditional advisor marketing. It is what we do. Advisor Products provides communications for private wealth managers. It's totally different from other advisor website companies.   

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Covid Hits Private Wealth

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This video shows the power of educational content to advisors to the mass affluent, professionals who aspire to advise a practice of 10 or 20 ultra-high-net-worth families.    

Videos can be narrated by you using a proprietary tool. It's not hard.  Most advisors prefer the professional voiceover. 

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FINRA-Reviewed Videos For Financial Planners

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FINRA-reviewed videos from Advisor Products are timely and intelligent. Check out the one below, which shows you exactly what we do every week.

For RIAs advising business owners, professionals, corporate managers, and other individuals likely to value learning how to manage their money better, this is a highly customizable solution. You can actually narrate over our videos, if you have the attention span.

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Advisor Website With Tax Planning Alerts

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Advisor websites with coronavirus tax planning alerts are our niche in marketing.

Educating investors with financial news for consumers makes the best marketing campaigns for RIAs, but is hard to do because advisors need real financial news writers and not marketing fluff.

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Advisor Commentary On Earnings Outlook Amid Coronavirus

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A mantra of independent economist Fritz Meyer in continuing education classes on Advisors4Advisors is that, "Ultimately, earnings drive stocks. 

Here's a three-minute investment advisor video explaining the earnings outlook amid the pandemic. 

Our content is easily plugged into any WordPress website by your webmaster or our tech staff.

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Coronavirus Content For Financial Advisors

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(Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 12 p.m. EST)  Last Thursday, Fritz Meyer gave me a seven-minute update on the new inflation data, and it blossomed into the video below about the Paycheck Protection Program for business owners. 

This video addresses business owners who have not applied for PPP. These are entrepreneurs who probably never applied for government aid before and may be reluctant to do so now, even though they  legitimately qualify and need it.

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The No. 1 Year-End Tax Tip For Financial Advisors

It’s unlikely you’ll see this 2019 year-end tax tip in the financial press, and it has not in the trade press currently. However, as a CFP®, CPA, CFA, CIMA® or retirement-income professional, this is probably the best 2019 year-end strategy for building your reputation as a thought leader. It's a substantive way to engage clients and prospects who are thought leaders in their chosen fields. 

 

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Coronavirus Crisis Financial, Tax And Investment Planning Tips

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A deluge of new federal tax breaks is about to pour forth and flood Americans again. Only 15 months ago, SECURE Act massively changed rules for retirees, and only one year before that, TCJA rewrote the tax code entirely. This is the third major tax reform in three years!
 

On April 2, at 4 p.m. EST, Bob Keebler’s class focuses on the tax breaks advisors need to know about under the $2 trillion stimulus plan and the avalanche of tax rules about to hit.

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FINRA-Reviewed Investment, Tax And Financial Planning Articles

2020 started with SECURE Act’s idiosyncratic impact. Then Covid-19 hit, which has caused a sharp correction in stocks. It’s certainly shaping up to be one of the most turbulent times in the history of tax and financial planning.

 

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Key Fundamentals Driving Portfolios Now

At a two-hour, two-credit continuing professional education webinar three weeks ago about key fundamentals driving portfolios now, Advisor Products' resident economist, Fritz Meyer, received a 9.7 rating on a 10-point scale. 

This 32-minute video also contains links to additional information on key topics discussed.

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Improving On Rule No. 1 Of Advisor Marketing: Fed Case Study

 

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FINRA-Reviewed Tax Planning Content

The best marketing content for financial advisors draws UHNWIs and the mass affluent by offering tax and investment tips that actually save thousands of dollars.

 

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Exploiting SECURE Act Before 2019 Ends

The signing of the SECURE Act on December 20, 2019 leaves only a few days to act on implementing major tax savings.  A call to action targeting four tax-saving pre-retiree and retiree situations is available to subscribers to our weekly feed for consumers. It shows how to attract wealthy pre-retirees and retirees by offering smarter tax and investment planning techniques in a news feed.

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Lifeboat Drill As A Titanic Metaphor For UHNWIs

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3Q2019 Ended Well; Did You Tell Anyone?

A day after third quarter 2019 ended on Tuesday, October 1, the video below was posted to advisor YouTube channels that we create and embed in advisor websites, advisor newsletters, and tweets for advisors. It's automatically posted with branding on advisor websites. 

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Negative Rates May Expand Market’s Multiple

The big news from economist Fritz Meyer's CE webinar on Advisors4Advisors on September 10, was his analysis of how negative rates in Germany are driving down bond yields in the U.S. 

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Tectonic Shift

Negative interest rates in Europe are a new and unprecedented financial economic condition advisors must suddenly navigate. 

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Fritz Meyer Special Report On Global Demographics

 

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Stocks Plunged 3% Today; Here's What We Did

Stocks plunged 3% today, Monday, Aug. 5, 2019. What did your website vendor do for you? 

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If retail sales grow and no one sees it, it still causes a boom!

If retail sales climb skyward and no one sees, it still causes a boom. Like the proverbial tree no one sees falling in a forest, the growth in retail sales has a real impact -- after inflation.

Fritz Meyer had a hunch that something did not add up. Retail sales releases month after month have been okay, but based on decades of experience, Fritz knows that inflation often masks real activity. So he built a spreadsheet adjusting for inflation the Census Bureau's retail sales data releases. It revealed a story that the financial press month after month have been missing. Fritz stepped me through his analysis last Friday. As always, he summarized it in a chart.  

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Scripts For CFPs®

Every week, a new script illustrated with charts, tables, and graphics is posted in our dashboard.

Record your own MP3s and upload the slides to give you own version. Use just one slide slide, edit the text and make your own videos or newsletters.

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A First For Advisor Websites: Advisor Reviews

 

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When Advisor Email Newsletters Go To Junk, Spam, Or Clutter

Advisor email newsletters often never make it to the intended consumer's Inbox. They go to junk, spam, or clutter folder. What can you do to fight back?  Here's the answer.

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Financial Planning Newsletters For Professionals In 3-D

Systematic client communications for advisors is like multi-level chess. Content must be thought leadership, concise, and in the medium each individual client prefers. We do all that, while also enabling advisors to personalize everything by editing tweets, emails, and articles and narrating videos.

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Our Policy On Publishing Content On Advisor Websites

Advisor Products no longer publishes articles, videos and other content on websites for consumers to view unless they provide an email address. Why?  

We post articles on advisor websites twice weekly in addition to a weekly video, all of it based on monthly continuing professional education webinars by Fritz Meyer, Bob Keebler, and Craig Israelsen on Advisors4Advisors.com. Advisor Products content valuable to any investor, but it's extremely valuable to UHNWIs, HNWIs and mass affluent individuals.

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Financial Planning Email Newsletters For Advisors

This email newsletter is unique. It's based on continuing professional education webinars taught every month by Robert Keebler, CPA/PFS, who has educated legal and accounting professionals about individual taxation for over three decades. 

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FinTech Will Eat Older Advisors' Lunch

Having built a very successful practice for three decades, the advisor on the phone was sure he would not use a dashboard for communicating with clients and influencers. He delegated creating newsletters and client communications to his staff.

Seemingly oblivious to the revolution in building trusting relationships on the web, this mindset is common among older advisors, and it makes them increasingly susceptible to competitors who understand financial advisor technology. A 30-something  or 40-ish CFP, CIMA, CPA/PFS, CFA, who grew up texting and understands social is able to target your clients with campaigns about tax and financial planning, dripping on them weekly with inarguable facts and analysis that you are not providing to  them.  

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Fritz Meyer Was Right About Earnings

Two months ago, economist Fritz Meyer began using the phrase, "upward revisions to accelerating earnings," to describe the outlook for profits. The new tax law, he said, would gradually add eight percentage points to 2018 earnings growth on the S&P 500. 

Since Fritz first made this observation in late December, earnings forecasts tracked by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S have been ratcheting higher fairly steadily. For weeks, advisors subscribing to our website platform have benefited from a weekly financial news stream with updaties on the unfolding earnings surge. Clients and contacts saw it in emails, videos, articles, tweets, scripts and animated GIFs, all of which are customized personally. 

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Amid Economic Growth and Record High Stock Prices, A Warning

 

The S&P 500 has broken record highs repeatedly for months, and profits expectations are smashing for 2017, 2018, and 2019, but William C. Dudley, vice-chair of the Federal Open Market Committee at the U.S. Federal Reserve and CEO of the New York District, in a speech in New York City last week, said the country's current fiscal course is unsustainable.  

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Last-Minute Tax Alerts Indicate Advisor Marketing Is Dead

The final year-end tax alerts for clients of CPA/PFS, CFP, CIMA, CFA, and other financial professionals are ready for Advisor Products subscribers to email. So are related videos, articles, scripts, and animated GIFs to share with clients and everyone you know. Here's a three-minute video about how to do that, if you're a subscriber to FAME 3.0 (Financial Advisor Marketing Engine).

Of all the tax reform Acts I’ve covered since TEFRA 35 years ago, this one was the most fun — not just because of the drama staged in the Capitol but also because of the pioneering work powered by our all-star team.   Here's the story in a nutshell.

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Quick Touches Toolbar Beta Release

A new toolbar for quick touches of clients is open to beta testers.  

Quick Touches is for fast sharing of articles, videos, and animated GIFs about wealth management as well as sharing your camera roll and posting blog entries. It’s designed to draw traffic to your website based on clients’ needs and interests.  Personalize a content stream from Fritz Meyer, Bob Keebler and Craig Israelsen. Put their slides and text in your own words, and add your keywords to improve search engine rankings. Send articles and videos with your spin.

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Unlocking The Strength Of Ensemble RIAs

Multi-professional firms are giving rave reviews to Financial Advisor Marketing Engine 3.0. (FAME).

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Pre-Review Added To Weekly Email Newsletters

Advisors can preview email newsletters using the  Build Advisor Websites (BAW) content managament system (CMS). For advisors, this allows you to send out email newsletters about breaking news we cover for you and to change anything you do not like.

BAW builds a workflow into weekly email newsletters for advisors. Every week, when a new video or investment updateis ready to be emailed, your email newsletter with your branding is emailed to you. So you can pre-review emails before they are sent to clients. If you don't like a headline, image or text, you can change it yourself. In addition,  the changes to the article in your email newsletter will also be posted to the article on your website. 

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Yes, Canned Content For Advisors Can Be Uncanned

 

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The Best Advisor Websites To Automate Client Engagement

Eighty-percent of advisors want to spend no time updating their website, but they still want a dynamic, engaging and cool presence online.

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Malware Alerts For Advisors

 

 

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In today’s times, when consumers have become more demanding and tech-savvy, financial advisors must use content marketing to attract, inspire, engage, and convert their prospective customers.

A good content strategy is focused on developing and distributing consistent, valuable content to engage and retain prospective customers and target audience, via your website. Our content library provides financial advisors with fresh, high-quality financial content that is updated regularly, improving SEO along the way. And our automated e-newsletter and social media tools allow advisors to reach out to clients and prospects in an easy-to-use manner, providing frequent touch points for optimal brand building.

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