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  • Keep Your Eyes Wide Open In Discovery Meetings
    Keep Your Eyes Wide Open In Discovery Meetings

    Asking the right questions in the right way

    by Irene Stolte, ChFC, CLTC

    Continuous learning is fundamental - especially for an advisor.
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  • When Is The Best Time To Buy Life Insurance?
    When Is The Best Time To Buy Life Insurance?

    ….it may be earlier than you think

    by Nate Schelhaas

    September is Life Insurance Awareness Month, and while most people understand the basic concept of life insurance, far too many delay the conversation.
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  • Sharing The Wealth
    Sharing The Wealth

    How advisors can help families talk about finances and retirement

    by Juan José Pérez

    The Great Wealth Transfer is underway. Between 2024 and 2048, an estimated $124 trillion will be passed from one generation to the next, according to Cerulli Associates.
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  • New Rules In Retirement
    New Rules In Retirement

    Standing up to a changing interest rate environment

    by Michael S. Ross

    Over the last few years and for the first time in many investors’ lifetimes, the current interest rate environment is creating meaningful opportunities for clients.
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  • Helping Clients Manage Costs Without Disengaging Employees
    Helping Clients Manage Costs Without Disengaging Employees

    Three things brokers should expect from benefits providers

    by Lindsey Murray

    Employee benefits remain one of the largest and fastest-growing investments on the balance sheets of most business owners.
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  • Why Whole Life Still Has A Role In Small Business Benefits
    Why Whole Life Still Has A Role In Small Business Benefits

    Bridging the benefits gap: A solution that suits both employers and their employees

    by Jack Douglas

    Small businesses want to offer meaningful benefits to their employees but need options that won’t add more work to already stretched operations.
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  • Decentralized Finance: The Hidden Layer
    Decentralized Finance: The Hidden Layer

    How DeFi exposure is entering retail portfolios without disclosure

    by Hyunsu Jung

    There is a broad and growing spectrum of investable products tied to digital assets, ranging from spot holdings and ETFs to more complex instruments such as tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) and onchain yield vaults.
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  • The Next Advantage In Financial Services Is Proximity
    The Next Advantage In Financial Services Is Proximity

    Moving transactions closer to the moment of need

    by Kaihan Krippendorff

    Moving transactions closer to the moment of need by Kaihan Krippendorff Kaihan Krippendorff is the founder of Outthinker Networks, a global community of chief strategy, innovation, growth and transformation executives, and the author of Proximity. A former McKinsey consultant, he has been recognized by Thinkers50 and Global Gurus as one of the world’s leading thinkers…
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  • A Conversation With Holly Snyder
    A Conversation With Holly Snyder

    Fresh Views On Life

    by P.E. Kelley

    Holly Snyder, president of Nationwide Life Insurance, shared her perspective on the trends shaping industry performance and financial professional behavior in the first half of the year, as well as her outlook for the balance of the year.
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  • The Next Evolution Of Retirement Planning
    The Next Evolution Of Retirement Planning

    Building confidence in your savings

    by David Cruz

    For decades, the retirement industry has helped millions of Americans answer one important question: How do I save for retirement? Americans have been encouraged to save early, invest consistently, and remain disciplined.
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  • The National Debt And The American Family
    The National Debt And The American Family

    Why it matters for retirement planning 

    The national debt is now above 39 trillion dollars. We all see the headlines, and for many in the profession it still registers as background noise - another big number in a noisy election year.
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  • Beyond The Ledger
    Beyond The Ledger

    How AI is turning CPAs into strategic navigators

    by: Jason Hope

    For decades, the relationship between a small business owner and their CPA has been largely historical. Once a month, the owner sends over a stack of data and a few weeks later, they receive a Profit and Loss statement that tells them exactly what happened thirty days ago. It is a rearview-mirror approach to business…
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  • Streamlining Annuity Adoption
    Streamlining Annuity Adoption

    The future of annuities depends on making them easier to acquire

    by Ann Nanda

    Retirement planning has changed dramatically over the last decade.
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