Three out of five financial
advisors say more than half of clients are more concerned about retirement security than last year.
Not exact matches
«So folks just aren't making individual decisions as much and
advisors are
more making longer - term sector and strategic investments than
saying let's make a play for this one name or the others» earnings,» Tabb Group's Larry Tabb told CNBC.
Investors need to be
more «forensic» about their portfolios given current levels of volatility, Bill Street, head of investments EMEA at State Street Global
Advisors,
said.
Lextech
advisor John Hennessy
says businesses that used the mobile assistant had a
more predictable and safer loading process and increased their efficiency by up to 20 percent.
«We are so much
more like our grandparents behaviorally than our parents,»
said Chantel Bonneau, a millennial and financial
advisor with Northwestern Mutual.
Cole is an
advisor to several startups and she
says that her most valuable advice is to always make
more grand goals, shoot higher and reach further.
This last point makes sense for some
more than others,
says Drew Nordlicht, partner and managing director of Hightower
Advisors, San Diego, who advises high - net - worth business owners.
Since those investors are just looking for the highest returns, and not
say buying bonds their financial
advisor told them they needed bonds as part of their retirement planning, they are
more likely to jump when rates rise.
«The CFO role is
more important and the position definitely needs an advanced investment background and not just an accounting MBA education,»
said Keith Springer, president of Springer Financial
Advisors in Sacramento, Calif..
If you «find
advisors who aren't your
advisors,» Boukadakis
says, they may be
more frank in their feedback because they won't have an emotional investment in your startup.
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«It's easier for an algorithm to determine someone's financial ability to take risk, but it's a whole lot
more difficult to determine a client's emotional ability to take risks, and that's probably where a financial
advisor has an advantage over a computer,»
said Stammers.
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Advisors Limited, an arm of the activist hedge fund,
said on Wednesday that it holds
more than $ 1 billion of shares in South Korea's Hyundai Mobis, Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors.
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Advisors revealed that 73 percent of customers
say they're
more likely to try a new product after sampling it (tastings it, smelling it, and touching it).
«Today's action by the board was the culmination of a blatant bait and switch, essentially robbing loyal employees, including the
more than 200 early founding Uber employees and
advisors, of their hard earned shareholder rights worth billions in value,» they
said.
Drinkwater
said the new investing rule announced in early April by the Labor Department may spur
advisors and clients to work
more closely on keeping inflation's effects at bay.
«When they reoccur,»
says Enright, «in - house financial
advisors may be
more necessary.»
«There are real concerns about Chinese behavior on intellectual property, for example, but there are much
more effective ways to address them,»
said Phil Levy, George W. Bush's former trade
advisor.
Small - business owners «are having to do a lot
more digging to find the opportunities, and since the opportunities are fewer, they have
more competition with other small businesses,»
says Julie Weeks, an American Express research
advisor and author of the report.
«You always have to invest in your business, and every business grows differently,»
says Bruce Clinton, a small business
advisor and executive coach with BusinessWise in Madison, Conn. «It's
more of an art than a science.»
Funds run by stock pickers would need to post at least a year of strong outperformance to rekindle the interest of
advisors who are now
more focused on costs, he
said.
It could be argued that the ratings are
more harmful than helpful,
said Robert Schmansky, CFP, owner of Clear Financial
Advisors.
That's getting a little bit
more dramatic, even than when we had the Tillerson and Cohn news,»
said Jens Nordvig, CEO of Exante Data, referring to the announced departure of top economic
advisor Gary Cohn.
Dimensional Fund
Advisors says: no
more poison pills.
Tax experts
say money managers can expect
more tax planning than usual this season, as
advisors and clients get familiar with tax reform.
He
said that on the product side Vanguard would offer
more tools for
advisors to «create holistic portfolios to deal with a drawdown phase,» which he believes will be the norm in the next decade.
Paulitz
says the «well over 80 firms» that have
more than 100,000
advisors affiliated with them have ordered the BICE template.
Although the digital experience is important, Foy
said, «real loyalty among millennials is much
more heavily influenced by frequent communication with an
advisor in the context of a goals - based strategy.»
«The good news is that we are exporting
more, but with the labor markets incredibly tight, labor costs are accelerating as well,»
said Joel Naroff, chief economist at Naroff Economic
Advisors in Holland, Pennsylvania.
Cetera Financial Group
says it has hired
more executives and updated its platforms in order to helps its
advisors sell and service retirement plans in accordance with the expected new Department of Labor fiduciary standard.
«In light of market demand, it's important that
advisors and clients have a trusted brand to turn to and a simpler
more flexible option to consider,» she
said.
Winterberg
says advisors have to offer an equivalent robo -
advisor service but also make clear that they do much
more than just «turnkey asset management and stock selection... This week of all weeks they should be
saying that to clients, how they create financial plans and go beyond just investments but talk about cash flow, taxes, estate plans and college planning.
Advisors» roles have «evolved enormously over the past eight years,» he
said, from
more of a broker to a fiduciary.
He cautions
advisors to never
say that a particular allocation will never comprise
more than 20 % of a portfolio, for example.
«I think the CSA will start with a soft - glove approach and evolve to
more iron - hand in a few years,»
says Paul Gryglewicz, managing partner of Global Governance
Advisors, a Toronto firm that advises company boards and senior managers on corporate government and executive pay issues.
But Elliot Weissbluth, CEO of HighTower
Advisors — a nine - year - old national financial services company with
more than $ 30 billion in assets under management that has long adhered to the fiduciary standard —
says it's like the difference between getting dietary advice from a butcher or from a registered dietician.
On its website, the SSA
says, «Social Security replaces about 40 percent of an average wage earner's income after retiring, and most financial
advisors say retirees will need 70 percent or
more of pre-retirement earnings to live comfortably.»
«For many people, the investment component may be
more important than any state tax savings,»
says Nelligan, who recommends working with a financial
advisor to weigh the tax benefits of staying in - state and shopping around for suitable alternatives.
Such short - term volatility isn't unusual,
say analysts, which is why
advisors usually recommend investors take a
more mid - to long - term view.
There is evidence that the influence proxy
advisors have over
say - on - pay votes extends
more broadly.
«Not long after I joined WisdomTree, I realized that investors — mostly institutions and
advisors — were starting to use the products
more, but really didn't understand how the products were priced, why spreads had a particular width and where ETF liquidity came from,» Abner
said.
On this subject, Miller
said, «We do not anticipate a problem there because one or
more of the people that are drafting the act is an [ABA]
advisor.»
White announced in a late March speech that «in order to
more fully inform the commission's decision on this matter,» she had directed SEC staff to compile a list of all those options, including, she
said, «a uniform fiduciary standard for broker - dealers and investment
advisors when dealing with retail customers, and other measures that may be
more targeted and achievable in the shorter term.»
High school seniors today are
more likely than previous generations to
say that making a contribution to society is extremely important to them, according to an October 2014 report from The White House's Council of Economic
Advisors.
Although such services are a relatively small section of the ETF distribution market, they're likely to grow, Gopaul
says: «There's this demand for
more and
more technology - based advice, and the robo -
advisors are going to serve a growing part of our investment landscape.»
That permits
advisors to express a precise fixed - income viewpoint that balances a client's portfolio yield with his or her risk profile,
says Gopaul: «Volatility is coming back now, and there's going to be
more demand there.»
Gopaul
says that as
advisors continue to shift their books toward ETFs and away from mutual funds, actively managed ETFs will become a
more compelling option for his firm.
Clients want
advisors «to grasp the broader (technology) trends, zero in on what matters most, and take a
more holistic approach to help them at every level achieve their long - term financial goals,»
said Mitchell H. Caplan, CEO of Jefferson National.
Patricia A. Bojanic, tax partner for Gordon
Advisors in Troy,
said the new tax law makes the 2018 child tax credit
more beneficial and
more widely available to many parents.
This outcome may reflect the fact that
more savvy buyers who buy larger contracts likely have access to
more sophisticated
advisors who are
more careful in helping clients make choices, Gourley
said.