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How to Talk About Risk Management to Clients in a Way They Can Understand

Of all the difficult conversations financial advisors must have with their clients, risk is one of the most challenging. That’s because when advisors think of “risk,” it doesn’t ...

A Client’s Personality Determines Their Risk Rating

By understanding your client’s behavior and investment personality and using it to guide them towards portfolios that reflect acceptable risk levels, advisors can achieve one of ...

Envestnet | MoneyGuide and StratiFi Launch Partnership Aimed at Empowering More Advisors to Improve Clients’ Understanding of Risk

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Envestnet | MoneyGuide and StratiFi, developer of award-winning PRISM Rating™ technology for financial advisors, announced a new integration ...

Portfolio Risk: Fight or Flight?

It is important to confront a key fact that is too little discussed. Investors have not amassed enough experience in the financial markets to be able to measure what is said to ...

The StratiFi Edge: July Newsletter

We made several product enhancements and feature updates in Q2… Integration portal allows self-serviced client onboarding Portfolio compare & analyze makes it easy to edit, ...

Valuable Portfolios Are Rarely Analyzed for Risk

The most successful investors approach the market in different ways, but they have this in common: they never lose a lot of money. That simple fact is not part of the narrative ...

The Long Term Investing Fallacy

To be sure, some will dismiss the idea of defining and proactively measuring investment risk. They will praise the merits of long-term investing. They will insist that the ...

Myth #5- Retirees Are Conservative Investors

At a Barron’s conference of the nation’s top financial advisors, a speaker noted that about 90% of all retirement accounts are in distribution mode. This reflects the fact that ...

Managing Crypto-Inclined Clients

Whatever your view on cryptocurrency, many of your present and future clients likely own, or want to own, digital currency. So, how do you manage a client with cryptocurrency ...

Myth #4- Long-term Investors Ignore Short-term Corrections

Of the world’s many mysteries, Wall Street’s success at convincing Main Street to believe in the existence of long-term investors ranks high. Through incredible marketing ...

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