By Miaciah Manuel, CFP®, Fiduciary Financial Advisor Getting organized is such a hot topic right now, a Wall Street Journal article on decluttering books cluttering our bookshelves was front-page news earlier this month. Annual print sales of books on organizing nearly doubled in the past year, as authors chased one of the hottest trends and the…
By Miaciah Manuel, CFP®, Fiduciary Financial Advisor Fun isn’t usually the first thing that comes to mind for most people when the word “fiduciary” is mentioned — but what isn’t fun about dreaming up the best possible life for you and your family? Even more fun, what if you had a systematic way to prioritize those…
By Nicholas Economos, CRPS® Last week on The Fiduciary Advisor blog we recapped our fiduciary financial planning educational webinar series to date for participants in the retirement plans of our plan sponsor clients. Now we turn our focus to plan sponsors themselves, and the series we launched last month with the webinar Fiduciary Risks: A…
By Miaciah Manuel, CFP®, Fiduciary Financial Advisor Earlier this year, we launched a fiduciary financial planning webinar series to help educate retirement plan participants on five steps they can use to put their goals first in personal financial plans. Our mission is to change the world one plan at a time, and financial education on proven…
As many employees look ahead to retirement, 47% of workers feel somewhat confident that they’ll have enough money saved to retire on time and then live comfortably.1 However, forward-thinking employers have the ability to help their employees work toward a confident and happy retirement. According to the 2018 Retirement Confidence Survey from the Employee Benefit…
Participant-driven lawsuits are on the rise, and employers are facing heightened scrutiny of the way they manage their retirement plans. In today’s continually-evolving regulatory and legal environment, it’s more important than ever to make sure your organization’s retirement plan is both effective and compliant. A well-structured retirement plan governance program can help you pursue these…
Did you know cybercrime is a possible threat for your company’s 401(k) plan? Technology is evolving fast, but cybercriminals are evolving just as fast. Cybercriminals are now going after a plan sponsor’s company 401(k) plans and you could be liable if disaster strikes! You should be aware of the multiple cyber threats that can affect…
As 2019 approaches, and with US stocks outperforming non-US stocks in recent years, some investors have again turned their attention towards the role that global diversification plays in their portfolios. For the five-year period ending October 31, 2018, the S&P 500 Index had an annualized return of 11.34% while the MSCI World ex USA Index…
Do you have superior client service skills and a great work ethic that you want to contribute to an established and continually growing financial advisory business? Fiduciary Financial Partners is looking for strong, detail orientated people with high follow-through to join our team. Our formula for success is to put our clients first. If you’re…
A Marathon for Everyone Recently, I went to cheer on a friend running in her first marathon. The excitement of watching thousands of people accomplish such an amazing goal was an experience like no other. I waited at the last bend before the finish line so I’d have a good vantage point for cheering my…
It was supposed to be so much different by now. Check out this ad from Schwab where the head of a brokerage firm instructs his staff to “put some lipstick on this pig.” This ad ran in 2002. Ah, how times have changed, right? Wrong. Years later, many brokerage firms are still pushing investments that…
We continue to see a trend in which employers are considering how to help their people tackle the challenges of paying off high student loan debt. If this seems outside the norm, think again. In fact, we believe the need for employer assistance on student loans should only continue to grow based on the statistics…