Morning Memo
Wealth Management Morning Memo

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

RETIREMENT PLANNING

Building Health Care Advisory Services Into Your Practice

Being a holistic advisor means helping clients navigate the overwhelming world of health care services.

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Is this the year for confidence or caution?
Last year’s solid economic growth may have neared a peak, but Commonwealth’s chief investment officer believes there’s still life left in the current business cycle.
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How to Break Down Cryptocurrency to Your Average Investor Client

There’s money to be made in crypto — you just have to know where to find it.

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Global Multi-Asset: Full Valuations Suggest Cautious Approach to Portfolio Risk

Growth should support profits in 2018, but equity valuations are full. Bonds could play an important diversification role.

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INDUSTRY

LJ Partnership Recruits HighTower Advisors Team for NYC Expansion

The private wealth manager already oversees more than $14 billion in client assets and plans on continuing to expand its presence internationally.

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The Daily Brief

Blackstone to Save Retirement for Millennials

While it may be too late for older generations who have not saved adequately, private equity firm Blackrock president Tony James, along with labor economist Teresa Ghilarducci, have a plan to save retirement for millennials. Their book, Rescuing Retirement, proposes a mandatory retirement account for all workers without one, with a minimum 1.5% contribution of wages, capped at $3,750 annually.

Clients Pretty Satisfied With Advisors at Year End
Clients were highly satisfied with their financial advisors at the end of 2017, most likely due to the stock market hitting all-time highs. The American Customer Satisfaction Index, which analyzes customer satisfaction with more than 300 companies in 44 industries, measured satisfaction with advisors for the first time, which scored 81 (based on a scale of 0 to 100) and in the top 10 of 44 industries in the index.

Athena Capital Advisors Returns to San Francisco
Athena Capital Advisors, an independent registered investment advisor with $5.5 billion in assets under management, said Tuesday it opened a new office in San Francisco. The company was established in San Francisco in 1993 and later relocated its headquarters to Lincoln, Massachusetts.

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