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  Advisor Insights

  The Five Biggest Lessons I've Learned as an Advisor

  Sheryl Rowling offers some practical tips on what's important in running a firm.

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  Retiring with Natalie Choate

  Restoring Lawsuit Winnings to an IRA

  The ability to contribute a restorative payment to an IRA applies only to the compensatory payment for the actual investment loss.

• Fiduciary Focus

  On Bernie Madoff and Working Longer

  Contributor Scott Simon addresses two unrelated--albeit important--subjects for advisors.

• Advisor Insights

  Will the SEC Promote Investors’ Best Interest?

  The proposal leaves several questions unanswered.

Advisor Insights

• Moat Ratings and Dividend Safety Go Hand-in-Hand
• Regional Wild Card
• How to Help Clients Avoid Capital Gains Distributions
• Households Save More With 529s
• Are We Losing Ground?
• Enduring Philosophy
• The Paradox of Skill
• Hitting the Road: A Q&A on Electric Vehicle Adoption
• What Data Can - and Can't - Provide
• Avoiding The Capital Gains Distribution Trap
• Racing Ahead
• The ESG Revolution
• Managed Accounts 2.0
• The Great Molasses

ETFs

• Low-Cost Building-Block ETFs Drive 2018 Growth
• When Markets Are Tough, Don't Look
• This Quality ETF Has Gotten Better

Funds

• This Excellent Fund Profits From Market Overreactions
• 2018 Was Equity Funds' Worst Year in a Decade
• Bond Funds Endure a Year of Economic Anxiety
• Kinnel: A Beating for China, Energy Funds in 2018

Fiduciary Focus

• 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
• The Case for Dollar-Cost Averaging

Practice Builder

• 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
• New Tools to Better Serve Generation X and Y Clients

Retiring with Natalie Choate

• 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
• How to Deal with Improper Roth Contributions

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