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The Wealth Advisor is today’s most relied-on source of news and education for planners and advisors. We scan the news so you don’t have to, sending you what you don’t want to miss…but don’t always have time to find yourself without poring through dozens of publications. The Wealth Advisor sends you a handy once-a-week list of the most important news, hand-picked by our staff for its importance to investment advisors and their practices.

Brookstone: How Financial Advisors Can Effectively Market to Female Investors

The role of women in wealth control and financial investment decision-making has undergone a significant transformation in recent years. Research has highlighted the remarkable influence women exercise in managing financial affairs. They increasingly serve as primary breadwinners or equal contributors to household income and control a staggering $10 trillion in assets in the United States alone. 

Dynamic Advisor Solutions: More Money (Markets), More Problems

(Dynamic / Lucas Felbel, CIMA®, Director, Portfolio Services) Investors in short-term “safe money” instruments have enjoyed strong returns over the past year, thanks to the Fed’s aggressive stance on interest rates to curb inflation. Since the Spring of 2023, investors seeking refuge in money market mutual funds, CDs, Treasury bills, and other short-term instruments have celebrated annual yields exceeding 4.8%, and over 5% since late July 2023, a rarity in recent decades.