1st Global Wealth Management

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Meeting the Needs of Women Clients

Think of the best relationship you have with a male client. He’s been with you for many years and you consider yourself “old friends.” How is your relationship with his wife? If your answer is anything other than “spectacular,” you should read the following carefully: There’s a 70 percent chance your client’s wife will fire you within a year after the death of her spouse.
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Finding Financial Planning Wisdom in Hollywood's Great Movies

One of the most important traits of a successful business owner is knowing “why” – why you do what you do. In a service-based business like ours, knowing your “why” is essential to helping clients feel confident that you are giving them excellent advice and to knowing you care about them and their families.
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The Myth of "I Can't"

What you believe is the most important thing about you. To accomplish something you never accomplished before, you need to challenge those beliefs.
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Practice

The One Key to a Dignified Retirement? Starting Early

The role of a financial planner and particularly a financial planner in a CPA firm, is to educate our clients that retirement planning is not about market timing. It's not about investment returns. It's all about having a consistent plan and then sticking to that plan.
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Strategies for Utilizing Permanent Life Insurance in Qualified Plans

One of the advantages offered by qualified retirement plans is the ability to acquire life insurance on plan participants using existing plan assets and future contributions to pay the premiums. This allows the plan to obtain life insurance coverage on plan participants with tax-deductible dollars.
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Practice

Eight Major Risks to Your Clients' Retirement

Everyone wants a safe, stable and certain flow of income to sustain their ideal retirement. But if you were to ask five different relatives and friends what retirement means to them, you would likely receive five different answers.
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Practice

Firm Leadership Styles That Work

Leadership matters. No one reading these two simple words would dispute their truth, but they may prompt questions: How much does it matter? What separates strong leadership from weak?
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Practice

If Price Were Not a Factor, What One Problem Would You Like to Solve?

Ask your clients this one simple question and open the clients to a new perspective. In general, clients only see us providing the service that they currently receive. They know they want something more, but they don't know whether we provide it.
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What Five More Years Means for Your Retirement

People want to age with dignity, and they want to be assured that they can be independent and free from being a burden to others in their retirement. The key for many to securing a dignified retirement is working a few additional years.
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Practice

Dealing with Dementia - Practical Knowledge for Your Practice

Every year, countless Americans with dementia fall victim to financial fraud and abuse. They face an increased risk of being taken advantage of due to their diminished ability to detect willful deceit and understand finances.
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Retiring with Dignity

Can baby boomers retire with dignity, or is it no longer in the cards? Financial planners have what it takes to help their clients – and themselves – avoid working into their 80s and beyond.
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Practice

Grow Your Business with a New Focus on Healthcare

Most CPAs and wealth management providers would love to find a way to grow their businesses in a sustainable manner. One solution we don’t often think about is right in front of our noses – especially now, as cold and flu season has arrived.
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Five Tips to Ensure Success During this Busy Season

Ever wonder what separates the most successful CPAs and financial advisors from the pack? Many industry-leading firms attribute their success to their ability to get the most out of year-end planning meetings and tax-season meetings with their clients.
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How My Financial Plan Saved My Life

Personal financial planning is nothing less than taking total personal responsibility for one’s life and to make and honor important promises to the people one loves. 1st Global Chairman and CEO Tony Batman shares how, during an epic battle against Stage 3 cancer, having a complete financial plan in place helped save his life.
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How You Can Guide the Future for America

Personal financial planning is the process of preparing for the inevitable tragedies of life that will affect each of us both financially and emotionally. It is a philosophy for intentional living, a framework for creating happiness, and offers joy in the face of life’s natural tendencies toward chaos and entropy.
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Leverage Life Insurance to Leave a Lifetime Legacy

By helping clients leverage life insurance capabilities, financial advisors, CPAs and other wealth management professionals can significantly magnify the impact of their charity.
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Practice

Help Your Clients Kick the Debt Habit

Each household in America carries roughly $114,000 in debt ($13 trillion divided by the total number of households counted in the 2010 Census). Whether you cater to the affluent or have a lower-income client base, debt is a reality for nearly all of your clients.
2020
Practice Development

Rediscovering the "Why" of Your Business

Whether you own a local mom-and-pop store or run a global enterprise, all businesses that achieve sustainable growth have one important attribute in common – they never lose sight of “why” they are in the business.
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Elevate Clients to Advocate Status by Providing a "Sounding Board Service" to Their Friends and Family

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To Build Your Business, You Must Start with Your Brand

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Voice of the Editor

What makes a company a great place to work? Experience, a ConnectEDU company, uses criteria that include benefits, career advancement opportunities, culture, and work/life balance to form its annual list of the Best Places to Work for Recent Grads. BDO USA and Ernst & Young both made the Top 25 list. Read what makes these firms stand out and find out what can be done at your firm to entice college grads.

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