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  Practice Builder

  How Advisors Can Help Preservers and Followers Succeed

  These two investor types have investing strengths and weaknesses. Here’s how to best advice each.

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  Advisor Insights

  The ESG Revolution

  Investors, acting as owners, demand to be heard.

• Advisor Insights

  Sustainability as a Megatrend

  ESG becomes part of what it means to invest.

• Retirement Planning

  Natalie Choate: Effectively Taking Early IRA Distributions Without Penalty

  Natalie Choate simplifies the decision making that come with SOSEPPs.

Advisor Insights

• How Advisors Can Reach Out on Sustainable Investing
• No Such Thing as a Typical Investor
• Feeding a Need to Help
• Holding Bonds Under the New Tax Law
• Easing the Retirement Crisis
• Mind the Gap 2018
• Aligning Interests
• Remember Risk?

ETFs

• One of the Most Useful ETF Data Points You May Never Have Heard Of
• Some Bonds Are Better Diversifiers Than Others
• A Contrarian Small-Cap ETF

Funds

• Are Falling Fund Fees Too Much of a Good Thing?
• Good Funds Hiding in Plain Sight
• A Solid Choice for Conservative Equity Exposure

Fiduciary Focus

• The SEC Should Try Enforcing the Investment Advisers Act of 1940
• An SEC Commissioner's Misfires
• An Improvement on Regulation Best Interest
• The Case for Dollar-Cost Averaging
• About That Best Interest Rule

Practice Builder

• Changes to the Kiddie Tax May Benefit High-Income Parents
• Why You Need Client Technology Ratings
• The Four Behavioral Investor Types
• Why That Savings Bond Interest May Not Be Excludable After All
• Managing Online Advisor Reviews
• Why You Need To Understand Behavioral Investor Types

Retirement Planning

• Natalie Choate: Managing a Year-of-Death RMD in an Inherited IRA
• Natalie Choate: Thorny Issues When Leaving IRA to Trust for Young Children
• Natalie Choate: How to Deal with Improper Roth Contributions
• Natalie Choate: 3 Misleading IRS Forms
• Natalie Choate: How an Expert Botched Her Own RMD

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