Portfolio management

Few clients think to look at the impact of capital gains on their mutual funds.

“It’s like shopping on Amazon for real estate,” says one investor. But clients pay a premium for the access and convenience.

There is quite a bit of data indicating planners timed the markets poorly during the financial crisis. Let's not make the same mistakes again.

Mutual funds and ETFs are often created with lopsided or unequal allocations toward certain sectors of the economy, experts warn.

Interestingly, the measure often used by analysts and planners just happens to be the one that doesn’t reflect how most clients actually invest or withdraw money.

For planners who embrace the potential to provide these services, it can be a natural next-generation service offering.

That would be a big “no,” in most cases, according to FINRA, but gives rise to another question…

We can all play a part in preparing for this and future outbreaks.

Investment in socially beneficial activities can be worthwhile. But it ignores the question of who decides what is beneficial.