The Real Treasury Bond Problem: Rising Interest Rates Meet America’s Massive Debt While nominal and real rates have both moved toward traditional, long-term, historical levels, the nation’s debt now sits at high levels
Why Human Taste Will Matter More Than Ever in the Age of AI The real leverage is building a personal brand around your taste specifically. Not what you make, but what you mean to people.
Networking Matters More Than Ever. So Why Does LinkedIn Feel Like a Sales Funnel? The research tells us weaker connections can expose us to new opportunities. Experience tells me deeper relationships matter too.
AI Isn’t Just a Tech Boom. It’s an Industrial Boom. The tricky part for investors is that share prices already reflect much of this optimism; positioning is crowded and valuations are stretched.
Your Sponsorship Isn’t a Marketing Strategy. Here’s How to Make It One Firms that get real value out of partnerships (visibility, warm introductions, referral flow, actual AUM growth) do two things differently.
Your Clients Don’t See Everything You Do. Are You Communicating Enough? Good communication shouldn't depend on someone remembering to send something. A simple rhythm keeps the firm visible.
4 Technology Investment Trusts to Know as AI Reshapes Markets The utilities sector has been transformed into a growth industry thanks to the massive power demands of datacentres springing up across the world.
The Trust Tax: Why Expertise-Led Firms Need to Build Authority Before the Sale When that authority hasn’t been built before the sales conversation, the burden gets handed to Business Development.
The Freedom Flywheel: Connecting Life Clarity to Enterprise Value For advisors and owners alike, personal planning should not be viewed as separate from business growth or wealth creation.
The Advisor Dependency Trap: Why Great Client Service Shouldn’t Depend on One Person Ask yourself what would actually happen if you were gone for a few weeks. Would the experience your clients receive stay the same?
Your Client May Trust You. Will Their Children? The Advisor’s Great Wealth Transfer Challenge When assets pass from one generation to the next, the relationship with the advisor doesn’t automatically transfer with them.
Musk Says AI Will Create Abundance. What If It Creates Something Else? Inside AI's future lies a battle between its value for production versus that of control. And that will be a battle over what our future looks like.
Why the 4% Rule Fails American Retirees in Spain (And What to Do Instead) Moving to Spain doesn't mean leaving the IRS behind. U.S. citizens typically remain subject to U.S. federal income taxation even while living abroad.
AI, Regulation and the New Financial Services Winners Companies are improving their margins by automating administrative tasks without materially changing the client experience they provide.
The Average Client Doesn’t Exist: Why Retirement Plans Must Account for Longevity Risk Living longer is the achievement. Unprepared longevity is the problem. And preparing for it starts by admitting that the average client does not exist.
Understanding The Finances Of Memory Care For A Loved One Wrapping your head around memory care finances means looking at several moving parts at once, actual service costs, payment options.
AI Is Changing Financial Modeling. Can You Still Trust the Model? Do we understand how this model was built, have we reviewed the right things, and can we trust the answer it produces?
AI Won’t Just Change Marketing. It Will Change How Marketing Teams Are Organized. What happens to our operating models when AI performs work across the very boundaries we built over the last two decades?
The AI Transformation Question Most Leaders Aren’t Asking The future will not belong to organizations that simply have more AI. It will belong to organizations that understand what humans should stop doing
Your Marketing Strategy Has Too Many Electives—and Not Enough Required Courses You don't need to enroll in every class. You just need to make sure you're not failing the prerequisites.
AI Is Entering Its Most Dangerous Phase for Investors The technology can transform the economy while delivering poor returns to many of the investors financing that transformation.
Why Millionaires Obsess Over Risk More Than Returns Behavioral economists have documented this for decades: losing money stings far harder than gaining the same amount feels good.
Legacy Planning Isn’t Just About Wealth. It’s About Preparing the Next Generation Families spend decades building wealth and only a fraction of that time preparing the people who will eventually inherit responsibility for it.
65 Was Never Designed for the Retirement We Have Today Before you set a retirement date, run the math on what one, three, or five more years of earning does to the rest of your life.
Using AI to Deliver High-Touch Wealth Management Firms that use technology to give clients more access to knowledgeable people, more thoughtful advice will be the big winners of the AI revolution.
Clients Don’t Want Another Financial Advisor. They Want Someone Who Gets Them. When clients feel valued, seen, and understood, they’re far more likely to stick around.
The Myth That Charity Can Replace Government Government and charities often complement or supplement each other, filling gaps in areas of mutual interest.
AI’s Water Problem: How Microsoft and TSMC Are Managing the Risk. This year, the United Nations warned that the world has moved beyond a water crisis and entered an era of water bankruptcy.
Why Most Financial Advisors Don’t Stand Out — And Don’t Know It You solve the Four Advisor Problems by defining your unique brand and then using it as the foundation for everything you do.
Why Newsletters Rarely Get Credit for the Revenue They Generate That may say more about how firms measure their impact than what newsletters actually accomplish.
If You Can't Name Your Planning Process, Neither Can Your Clients Being skilled at planning is valuable, but it is a personal asset. It lives in your head, and it retires when you do.
Are People Search Sites Legal and Safe to Use? People search sites sit in an uncomfortable spot: they feel invasive, yet they operate in the open and rank on the first page of Google.
Your Clients Want to Refer You. They Just Forget. Here’s the Fix. Your clients want to refer you. They just forget to. A simple newsletter fixes that, and it costs almost nothing.
AI Is Driving Big Tech Growth. Here’s the Bigger Investor Test Cloud growth is speeding up, AI demand is rising, and investment remains high. We analyse the latest results from Big Tech's leaders.
The Trapped Advisor: How to Beat FINRA’s Strict Expungement Deadlines FINRA enforces strict, absolute deadlines depending on how the underlying customer complaint unfolded.
Six Ways Advisors Can Build More Tax-Efficient Portfolios As investors place greater emphasis on after-tax returns, tax-smart portfolio management has become a key differentiator for advisory firms.
Men and Women Retire Differently. Here’s What Retirement Plans Get Wrong Longevity handed us the extra years. It did not fund them, and it did not tell us what to do with them. That part we design ourselves.