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  Practice Builder

  Advising a High-Earning, Risk-Taking Pre-Retiree Using Behavioral Investor Types

  Michael Pompian's second case study features a a high earner on the brink of retirement who likes taking investment risks.

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  Retiring with Natalie Choate

  Tricky Timelines If You Miss an RMD

  For what year or years do you file IRS Form 5329 if you discovered you've missed a required minimum distribution?

• Fiduciary Focus

  403(b) Plans Not Adding Up

  Contributor Scott Simon discusses what upgrades 403(b) plans should make, with lowering costs being the first improvement.

• Practice Builder

  The Top 5 Tasks Advisors Can Outsource to Virtual Assistants

  Consider delegating front desk and back office support, as well as bookkeeping and social media management, to virtual staff.

Advisor Insights

• The Five Biggest Lessons I've Learned as an Advisor
• Moat Ratings and Dividend Safety Go Hand-in-Hand

ETFs

• Balancing Targeted Bets With Diversification
• A Closer Look at Vanguard's Active Factor ETFs
• No Shortcuts to Investment Success

Funds

• A Big Deal: Merger-Arbitrage Funds Are Benefiting From Higher Cash Rates
• A Flurry of Ratings in January 2019
• We See Stock Market 'Anomalies,' but We Do Not Yet Understand

Fiduciary Focus

• On Bernie Madoff and Working Longer
• Why Target-Date Funds Miss the Boat
• The SEC Should Try Enforcing the Investment Advisers Act of 1940
• An SEC Commissioner's Misfires
• An Improvement on Regulation Best Interest

Practice Builder

• How to Advise Preservers
• Beyond AUM: Getting Paid for Your Advice
• Advising a Too-Conservative Retiree Using Behavioral Investor Types
• Increase Productivity by Outsourcing Call Answering
• How Advisors Can Help Independents and Accumulators Succeed
• A Checklist for Developing a NextGen Offering

Retiring with Natalie Choate

• Restoring Lawsuit Winnings to an IRA
• The 401(k) Early Withdrawal Penalty: It's Not Fair!
• A Good Tax Idea Backfires
• Effectively Taking Early IRA Distributions Without Penalty
• Managing a Year-of-Death RMD in an Inherited IRA
• Thorny Issues When Leaving IRA to Trust for Young Children

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