Quick Hits: Cool Town | BlackRock FIAs | Storytelling

There is this really cool town where you can still buy a 3 bedroom house in a family friendly neighborhood for $150,000 and work for the #1 Financial Marketing company for Financial Advisors… It’s Topeka Kansas – Check it out! Just sayin. I digress… People are getting out there, live events are up! Time to…

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Quick Hits: Do you Feel It? | Bye-Bye-Bye | Clarity

Do you feel that? I know you feel it… Uncertainty… and It’s getting worse.   As we’ve talked about before, markets are good with the bad and good with the good, but what they really don’t like is uncertainty…neither do investors! It’s showing because Advisors Excel advisors have had one of the largest months in…

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Quick Hits: Uncertainty Kills | Best of The Best | 8 Myths

With the S&P down %7+ YTD, it’s more proof of the saying “Markets Hate Uncertainty.” The markets don’t care if things are good or bad. If they are bad, at least we know things are bad and certain business will do well to uphold the markets. Case in point: we’ve had a nice run through…

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Quick Hits: 60/40 Worst Loss | Corrections | Leadership

There has been a lot going on in the market this week so I thought I’d share a few articles you can bring into to your conversations. Specifically I focused on the traditional 60/40 portfolio, which I know most of you structure the “40%” much differently than what these articles are speaking to, but most…

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Quick Hits: 4 straight | DOL 3.0 | Money Supply

Markets are wrapping up another roller coaster week. Time for a good reminder that Security is a “feeling” not a number!   Volatility in the market is one of the best indicators of how well of a job you are doing for your clients. A lot of calls during the down times shows the plans…

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