One of the purposes of The Retirement Analysis Kit (TRAK) and TRAK-Online software is to reduce the complexity of financial planning – a solution to help advisors with the many complex calculations and illustrations while producing results that clients can easily understand. Nowhere is this more helpful than working with pension plans, which bring their complications.
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40 Open-Ended Questions to Engage Your Clients
Open-Ended Questions hold a special power of engagement which can help build rapport and trust between people. I think most people get this instinctively and, as we wrote recently, there are studies that reveal the unique strengths of asking questions.
How to Build Client Relationships with Questions
Questions have a unique power and learning to be a better question asker can have a big impact on your personal and professional relationships.
Changing Retirement Plan Trends in the Healthcare Industry
As healthcare organizations move away from offering defined benefit plans and seek to find retirement benefits to offer to employees, certain trends emerge. Let’s look at some of the trends that came out in the Transamerica survey.
Financial Wellness: Opportunity or Current Fad?
Financial wellness is one of the key buzzwords in our industry right now. While many are talking about it, what trends do we see on the ground? Is there a uniform understanding of what financial wellness is? Do plan sponsors want it and is it making a difference to participants?
Plan Advisors: Don’t Be a Commodity!
Advising plan sponsors and participants is a rewarding job but, in the changing qualified plan landscape, it can be increasingly difficult to win news plans. On one side, plan sponsors are feeling the heat from recent litigation focusing on fiduciary duties, fees,...
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