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How To Avoid Email Marketing Mistakes

For many financial advisors, email marketing is an effective way to communicate with their target market. Advisors favor email because, once it’s set up, it is easy to manage – ...

Specialization May Be Financial Advisors’ Quickest Path to Success

Most financial advisors begin their careers as generalists, offering a full range of investment and insurance products to anyone who will see them. Some remain as product ...

StratiFi Featured in S&P Webinar on Risk Management

San Francisco, April 6, 2020 – Akhil Lodha, StratiFi Technologies’ Chief Executive Officer, recently spoke on a webinar held by S&P Dow Jones Indices (DJI) about the effective ...

Steven Sears on Risk & Portfolio Hedging | StratiFi

In the past 100 days, the stock market has advanced about 22%. This return is so extraordinary that many investors would be satisfied with that gain over an entire year. This ...

Advisors: Social Media for Client Growth | StratiFi

Today, the vast majority of a financial advisor’s potential clients reside in a parallel universe called social media – a digital cosmos that exists alongside the physical world. ...

Attract Ideal Clients With Online Personas

Most financial advisors understand the value of an ideal client profile in helping them identify the type of prospects they should pursue to grow their practice. While that may ...

Next-Gen Clients & Trust: Advisor Guide | StratiFi

The greatest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history is underway. As a financial advisor, it represents either an unprecedented opportunity or a threat to your survival. ...

An Essential Way To Grow Your Business

For much of the past decade, advisors have benefitted from market-driven growth. As the markets advance, assets under management increased. Now, as the bull market trounces onward ...

Luck, Risk and Avoiding Losers

When Howard Marks speaks, it pays to listen. The chairman of Oaktree Capital recently sat for a lengthy interview with Shane Parrish of Farnam Street in which he covered many key ...

Is the Era of Index Funds About to End Badly?

In February 2019, the Standard & Poor’s 500 index hit a new high, less than two months after one of the worst one-month declines on record. From its December 24, 2018 low, the ...

How To Create Your Own Guaranteed Pension

Many people struggle with choosing a retirement income strategy that assures they will not outlive their money without assuming significant risks. The optimum strategy is ...

The Long and Short of Investing

For much of the past decade, investment profits have flowed to anyone who simply bought stocks and sat tight. But now the stock market is beginning to show signs of aging. ...

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