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Differentiating Independent Advisors From Wall Street’s Sales Machine

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Wall Street strategists are unreliable at predicting the closing price of the S&P 500 in the year ahead, but their 2021 forecast demonstrates just how wildly wrong the largest brokerage firms can be and how much it can cost investors.  

For over a decade, Advisor Products articles and videos have documented Wall Street’s failure to predict the market, thanks to data from independent economist Fritz Meyer, who has tracked the predictions of 10 leading Wall Street investment strategists as published in Barron's every December.

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If Content Is King, Fritz Meyer Must Be Royalty

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If content is king, independent economist Fritz Meyer must be royalty.

Sharing thought leadership content is an optimal way to stand out for a financial advisor to standout, when communicating with clients, referral sources, and friends. Only because Advisor Products has a renowned independent economist on its team are we able to produce authoritative content like this video.

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PPC Campaigns For Advisors: Asset Valuation Paradigm Shift

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The bond market expects inflation for the next decade to annually average 2.35%, based on the  Breakeven Inflation Rate, a market-based measure of expected inflation derived from subtracting the current yield on 10-Year TIPS from the current 10-Year Treasury's yield

A negative real return on 10 year Treasurys is a tectonic shift for advisor clients, unprecedented in modern history! 

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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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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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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 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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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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Manhattan Advisor Marketing Meetup Dinner With Andy Gluck Wednesday

The Metro NYC Society of Investment Specialists is hosting a presentation by me at a midtown restaurant in a prewar townhouse. A private room accommodating up to 20 is reserved, and 1290 Funds is sponsoring the event. A few seats are open.

It's $35 for dinner and drinks at Marchi's at 251 East 31st Street, off 2nd Avenue in Kips Bay, at 6 p.m. Please call 888-274-5755 Option 1 to reserve a seat.    

After a couple of drinks, I'll attempt to demo new technology for quick touches of clients digitally. The quick touches toolbar is part of a practice management system I've built with help from Fritz Meyer, Bob Keebler, Dr. Craig Israelsen and 3,000 users of Advisors4Advisors and Advisor Products. The platform enables investment and financial planning professionals to fulfill the obligations incumbent on an investment fiduciary at the lowest possible cost. It is customized to your personal strengths and specialities. Here's a 2-minute tour of the platform, and here's 2-minutes about quick touches

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Three New One-Hour Presentations For Advisors Monthly

The Financial Advisor Marketing Engine (FAME) has been improved yet again with the addition of three one-hour slide presentations for advisors every month. Transcripts of two presentations about investing and one about financial planning are available in the Advisor Products Marketing Dashboard.

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The Holy Grail Of Advisor Websites And Email Newsletters Is Here

Advisor Products now enables advisors to edit articles we write for advisor websites and email newsletters onscreen. We're giving you financial journalism that you can edit onscreen on the fly whenever major financial news breaks. It's a financial advisor news service you can customize to your needs.

 

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Start 2016 With A Free Advisor Video To Grow Your Practice

 

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Video: Jim Cramer Actually Said That Some Traders Knew In Advance Of Paris Attacks

On the Monday morning following the Friday, November 13, terrorist attacks in Paris, Jim Cramer said on TV that some traders appeared to have had knowledge in advance of the terrorist plots that killed at least 130. Cramer, in spinning his consipracy theory, exposes the true character of his coverage.   

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Explaining Modern Portfolio Theory To Advisor Clients In Pictures, Words, And Music

If you manage assets in diversified portfolios, your clients’ portfolios are probably trailing the S&P 500. Since the financial press reports on performance of the S&P 500, clients usually expect your advice to keep pace with the S&P 500, and you may not be meeting their expectations. Prudent financial professionals who rely on Modern Portfolio Theory are vulnerable to advisors peddling far less prudent advice.  

This video is what Advisor Products is doing to help professionals who doing the right thing to communicate about this issue effectively and inexpensively using modern Internet tools.

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Quarterly Economic And Market Coverage Starts Tomorrow

With 3Q2015 ending yesterday, subscribers to Advisor Products FA marketing engine (FAME) should look for a flurry of new content release in the next two weeks.

 

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Covering Investments From A Long-Term Perspective Weekly

While many advisors fear covering markets weekly will train their clients to have a short-term perspective, such fears are misplaced.

Take a look at the update distributed last Friday in email newsletters by hundreds of RIAs to tell their clients what to make of the Fed’s decision to leave rates unchanged last week.

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Panic Protection For Financial Professionals

Putting your voice on this video is easy and inexpensive with Advisor Video Library, and it gives financial professionals Panic Protection Coverage.

Panic Protection Coverage is like an insurance policy for an investment advisor. We guarantee that, during market plunges, we will give you coverage from our experts in long-term investment wisdom.

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Guaging Client Fear

Guaging Client Fear

A quarter of advisors say they’ve not had a single question from their clients about the precipitous market plunge, but 45% say 1% to 3% have expressed concern to them about it and 15% of advisors polled say 5% or more of their client base  has expressed concern to them about the plunge.

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Advisor Marketing Video Addresses Bubble Fears

A new batch of about 15 videos are available in the Advisor Video Library and this one addresses fears of another stock market bubble.

 

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Advisor Video Library Free Trial

Advisor Video Library gives you a library of timely videos that you narrate. You read a FINRA-reviewed script we’ve written and record your voice reading using your telephone with our simple online app. Your voiceover is inserted in an educational video.

Using proprietary technology, your voice personalizes videos, and it’s really easy to do.

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New Marketing Campaign For Independent Advisors Takes on Wall Street

Here’s a one-minute clip from our new Video For Independent Advisers Who Are  Fiduciaries. It highlights key factors of your unique value proposition in four innovative ways:

  1. Personal Narration. Using a Web app we’ve developed, you narrate a FINRA-reviewed script we provide. The words are displayed slide by slide and you record using your computer microphone.
  2. Fritz Meyer Research.  The video reports on research independent economist Fritz Meyer, who has documented the track record of Wall Street’s top strategists from 2007 to 2014, as published in Barron’s annually in the venerable weekly’s “Outlook” cover story. According to Meyer, a former investment strategist at one of the world’s largest investment companies, any investor who followed the consensus advice of the Barron’s Wall Street strategists’ industry-sector picks annually would have performed disastrously relative to buying and holding the S&P 500.
  3. Fiduciary. The video explains the benefits of working with a fiduciary.
  4. Powerful Video. Economic research lends its to graphical display, and this video includes graphical cues inserted to make the information easy to understand. While you explain your fiduciary obligations, an aerial view pans New York Harbor at night for a 360s° close-up of the Statue of Liberty. While you narrate a script contrasting your practice with a Wall Street’s broker's, viewers see the skeletal remains of the head of a bull amid the scorched earth of Death Valley, California.

For a fiduciary, this video voices a clear response to people who don’t know how you are different from Wall Street’s herds. This campaign breaks new ground in independent advisor marketing by making a professional video easy to personalize and distributing it utilizing Advisor Products' email marketing integration with Constant Contact. It equalizes TV ads and media influence of Wall Street.

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