Originally posted at advisorservices.schwab.com, by Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., during October 2019. Key points: • As competition increases, more independent advisors are offering comprehensive financial planning. But, for many, the way they communicate their value has not kept pace. • One of the best ways to protect your client relationships from competition is to [...]
Originally posted at fedsmith.com, by Brandon Christy, on October 3, 2019. In Mitch Anthony’s book, The New Retirementality, he provides a modern perspective of what retirement really means. This book is a great resource for federal employees who are considering what they want from retirement. Retirement was first seen as successfully coming to the end of [...]
Originally posted at pressofatlanticcity.com, by Eric Reich for the Current, on September 27, 2019. I heard Mitch Anthony, founder and president of Advisor Insights Inc., speak at a retirement conference recently, and he said “retirement doesn’t work.” This really resonated with me. Having spent 22 years in this industry working as a retirement specialist, I [...]
Financial planners need to come alongside their clients as they define their own version of the retirement life stage. Originally posted at moneyweb.co.za, by Eric Jordaan - Crue Invest (Pty) Ltd , on September 11, 2019. If you are planning to work for the rest of your life, it is entirely understandable if saving for [...]
“Best Books” For Financial Advisors – 2019 Edition Originally posted at kitces.com , by Michael Kitces, on June 10, 2019. For so many, the season of summer is a time of vacation and family trips, whether for some rest and relaxation or just to get away from the local heat. And the fact that clients [...]
Your emotional ‘glide path’ is as important as your financial plan Originally posted at MarketWatch, by Jonathan Burton, on May 22, 2019. Retirement ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. In fact, if they’re not careful, a lot of folks will crack once they retire. Perhaps no other stage of life triggers such intense feelings [...]
Originally posted in Financial Advisor (fa-mag.com) on May 1, 2019 I’d like to begin this article with a few new terms I’ve coined that will be helpful for reading along: Practicide: When you build a practice designed to kill you. Entremanure: What people often find themselves wading in when selling the wrong value proposition. Messyages: [...]
And it shouldn't be, says Mitch Anthony. It should be a healthy, happy balance between vacation and vocation. Originally posted at The Street.com by Robert Powell April 25, 2019 The whole premise of retirement -- the leisure myth -- is a bit bothersome. So said Mitch Anthony, the founder and president of Advisor Insights [...]
Learn how investors really feel about money and why Originally posted at MarketWatch.com, by Morey Stettner Ask financial advisers what they discuss with their clients and you’ll usually get a one-word answer: money. Money of course can be a springboard for delving into all kinds of personal issues. But few advisers dig deep enough to [...]
Learn how investors really feel about money and why Ask financial advisers what they discuss with their clients and you’ll usually get a one-word answer: money. Money of course can be a springboard for delving into all kinds of personal issues. But few advisers dig deep enough to learn how their clients really think and [...]
The Department of Personal Financial Planning in the College of Human Sciences at Texas Tech presents the Life Centered Financial Planning certificate. Industry pioneer Mitch Anthony, founder of the Financial Life Planning Institute, developed the curriculum to teach both the personal skill sets and discovery methodologies, according to a news release. Two Tech staff members, [...]
In his heyday, Larry Bird was recognized as the ultimate three-point shooter. In 1986, a championship year, he made 82 threes. His team, the Boston Celtics, made 138 total. The league average was 77. In the 2015-2016 season, all-star guard Stephen Curry made 402 three-point shots. His team, the Golden State Warriors, made over a [...]
Originally posted in FA magazine. When financial advisors have conversations about investments with their clients, there’s usually something missing—a dialogue in which the advisor can discover a client’s particular perspectives on important money issues. I’m talking about those issues that will inevitably lead to the flourishing or floundering of any well-intentioned plan. It’s awfully difficult [...]
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." -- Albert Einstein Regardless of how you felt about the late John Bogle, we can all agree on one thing—the mutual fund pioneer was a disruptor. He looked at investing in a whole new way and changed the [...]
In this podcast, Michael Kitces interviews Mitch Anthony about becoming an invaluable voice in your clients’ lives. This AICPA podcast is a sneak peek into Mitch’s session, You and Your Clients, at the 2019 Advanced Personal Financial Planning Conference at AICPA ENGAGE. Mitch talks about how to connect with your clients in a way that [...]
“Don't let money run your life, let money help you run your life better." --John Rampton, CEO of Due Like lots of other industries, the financial services community is transitioning as boomer markets mature, and younger generations—both Gen Xers and millennials—evolve. Don’t get me wrong—boomers are still an important part of any financial practice and [...]
“The only two things that really make you happy are having your health and people that love you, and money can't buy either one." -- Warren Buffet I recently spoke at a conference in England and was pleased to learn that my talk hit close to home for a lot of people in the audience—and [...]
Originally posted at Financial Advisor, by Mitch Anthony. Given the choice of addressing either an effect or a cause, a strategic thinker would always prefer the latter. A person constantly putting out fires without understanding the cause has a limited ability to control situations. Yet I’ve observed that the majority of financial advisors seem to be [...]
Originally posted at Money Marketing If you had told me 10 years ago that not only would I be a chartered financial planner but that I would enjoy it so much I would be reading about the “science” of retirement and the “new retirementality” in my spare time, I reckon I would have asked you [...]
Originally posted at Kitces EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As the pressures of commoditization on investment advice continue to increase, more and more advisors adopting financial planning and wealth management services for their clients. Yet compared to the world of investing – where an advisor’s value proposition can be clearly articulated and measured in dollars and cents – [...]