Economist Fritz Meyer, Andy Gluck, and the Advisor Products team created this video about the Federal Reserve Board's press conference last week. Fed chair Janet Yellen's transparency in leading the Fed is highlighted and, with July Fourth coming up, those serving our great nation are saluted.

You can send a new video every week. We post it on your firm's YouTube channel and send it in an email to your contact list. The video is submitted to FINRA and embedded on a page on your website. It's also a "widget" on your website and used in SEO lead-generation.  

I’ve been developing advisor websites for 20 years and it’s led me to making widgets for advisors.

Widgets for advisors are web marketing apps for advisors. They’re highlighted in red boxes in this image.

Montreal, Quebec, May 11, 2016 – Croesus, a leading provider of wealth management solutions, has integrated with AdvisorVault from Advisor Products. Investment advisors can now distribute portfolio performance reports to all their clients daily in a fully automated process.

AdvisorVault provides a personalized and graphically rich interactive client portal. Advisors can securely post documents in private folders for clients with high encryption behind multiple firewalls. Integrations with advisor websites and professional apps have made it a leading client portal solution in the industry.

Dr. Craig Israelsen, one of the nation's foremost experts on implementing low-cost potfolios based on Modern Portfolio Theory, has begun contributng his research to advisors through the Advisor Products video library.

The first video uses a new data visulaization method to illustrate the risk of running out of money in retirement. 

After starting the year with an 11% plunge, the Standard & Poor's 500 has gained more than 7.4% in the past month.

Here are highlights from three of the videos we made available in the last few weeks in our adsvisor video library.

Disarming the threat of roboadvisors to independent financial professionals, Advisor Products is integrating a chat application into advisor websites -- those we host and those we do not.

The Case For Chat On Advisor Websites

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.

New content for your clients about the bear run on Wall Street is available now.

An advisor last week told me sending a weekly email to clients is a bad idea. “It sends a bad message by focusing on short-term news,” he said.

I understand why he said that, but then showed him why he was wrong.

At about 4 p.m. ET last Friday — 48 hours after the attack in San Bernardino — the FBI called the fatal shooting of 14 people an act of terror. Suddenly, performance of the stock market after the attack was a compelling story.

Immediately after the attack, late Wednesday afternoon, stocks prices fell, and they dropped again on Thursday. On Friday, however, by the end of trading, stocks had recouped those losses.