Posts in Financial Planning
What is Financial Success?

If we look at society and societal norms, a lot of weight is given to success when it comes to defining happiness. If we see a person who is successful, it is often assumed that they are happy. On an existential level we should consider what it all means. In reality, we actually have no idea whether or not that person is either happy or successful; for a couple of reasons: First of all, we can only measure someone else’s success or happiness by what we know about them.

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Just Married and Starting a Family - Role of The Financial Advisor

John and Sally have been married 5 years. The 35-year-old computer programmer works at a major software company, while Sally, 32, works part-time as a freelance photographer and full-time as the mother of a 3-year-old son and a 5-year-old daughter.

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57.5% of commission-based advisors do not use financial planning software

Yesterday, I was reading an issue of Financial Planning Magazine (a magazine for financial planners).  This particular issue was the 2013 technology survey and went through the different technology trends as it relates to financial planners and the top technologies they are using in their practices today, like portfolio management software, CRM (customer relationship management), and financial planning software.

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