Synopses & Reviews
To truly be successful, today’s financial advisor must strike the right balance between effectively engaging with his or her clients and finding meaningful ways to maintain their financial security. By framing your mission in this way, you can help your clients clarify their vision, build a plan to achieve it, and manage that plan so they stay on track.
Nobody understands this better than authors Timothy Noonan and Matt Smith—two seasoned financial professionals with over five decades of combined experience working in the asset management business. And now, in Someday Rich, they show financial advisors with clients who are rich, or have the opportunity to become rich, how to sustain a client’s desired lifestyle to, and through, retirement.
Engaging and informative, Someday Rich provides the context, description, and implementation suggestions for the Personal Asset Liability Model—a process that will allow you to determine a client’s funded status relative to their future spending needs as well as develop and monitor their investment plan accordingly. While the methods in the Personal Asset Liability Model may not have been practically accessible to past advisors with a large number of clients, this model now brings together the technical methods to answer important client questions in a way that is feasible and includes the communication strategies that can make the delivery of the advice model more effective.
Along the way, this reliable resource discusses the business of giving good advice and addresses how to incorporate these steps into a client engagement road map. Insights on various other issues associated with this discipline are also included, such as how to develop client trust and deliver personalized service when you have so many clients, and contingency risks—life, health, disability, and long-term care—that need to be considered in the financial planning process. And in later chapters, single-topic essays, contributed by experts in the financial planning field, cover issues ranging from target date funds and the investment aspects of longevity risk to modern portfolio decumulation.
Building more valuable relationships with your clients is a difficult endeavor. But with Someday Rich, you’ll discover what it takes to achieve this goal as you put them on a path to a sustainable financial future.
Review
"Good financial advisors manage investors as much as they manage investments. They engage in real conversations with clients by asking, listening, empathizing and educating, before prescribing investment solutions. Timothy Noonan and Matt Smith guide advisors into real conversations with clients, replacing ignorance with knowledge, and fear with peace of mind."—Meir Statman, Glenn Klimek Professor of Finance, Santa Clara University; author of What Investors Really Want: Know What Drives Investor Behavior and Make Smarter Financial Decisions
Synopsis
Practical insights that will help financial planners and investors work better togetherThe best investment advice and portfolio strategies are a function of the advisor knowing what to say, as well as a private investor's receptiveness to the message. But the conversation between planner and investor is never an easy one.
How to Build Wealth Zones seeks to bridge this gap by proposing a more intuitive approach to understanding how to structure investment portfolios to achieve better long-term financial security objectives. Along the way, author Timothy Noonan outlines a step-by-step approach to building personal pension plans using asset-liability matching strategies and other institutional investing approaches that defined benefit plans have historically used.
- Makes complex financial concepts intuitively simple for financial planners and investors
- Introduces "wealth zones" as a more natural way for advisors and clients to converse
- Proposes architecture for building investment portfolios that can meet long-term lifestyle and retirement wealth objectives
- Helps eliminate the disconnect between financial planners and investors, so that realistic goals can be set and achieved
The concept of "wealth zones" and matching investment portfolios to meet an investor's objectives makes sense. This book will show you how to put this approach to work and make the best financial decisions possible.
Synopsis
To truly be successful, today's financial advisor must strike the right balance between effectively engaging with his or her clients and finding meaningful ways to maintain their financial security. By framing your mission in this way, you can help your clients clarify their vision, build a plan to achieve it, and manage that plan so they stay on track.
Nobody understands this better than authors Timothy Noonan and Matt Smith—two seasoned financial professionals with over five decades of combined experience working in the asset management business. And now, in , Someday Rich, they show financial advisors with clients who are rich, or have the opportunity to become rich, how to sustain a client's desired lifestyle to, and through, retirement.
Engaging and informative, Someday Rich provides the context, description, and implementation suggestions for the Personal Asset Liability Model—a process that will allow you to determine a client's funded status relative to their future spending needs as well as develop and monitor their investment plan accordingly. While the methods in the Personal Asset Liability Model may not have been practically accessible to past advisors with a large number of clients, this model now brings together the technical methods to answer important client questions in a way that is feasible and includes the communication strategies that can make the delivery of the advice model more effective.
Along the way, this reliable resource discusses the business of giving good advice and addresses how to incorporate these steps into a client engagement road map. Insights on various other issues associated with this discipline are also included, such as how to develop client trust and deliver personalized service when you have so many clients, and contingency risks—life, health, disability, and long-term care—that need to be considered in the financial planning process. And in later chapters, single-topic essays, contributed by experts in the financial planning field, cover issues ranging from target date funds and the investment aspects of longevity risk to modern portfolio decumulation.
Building more valuable relationships with your clients is a difficult endeavor. But with Someday Rich, you'll discover what it takes to achieve this goal as you put them on a path to a sustainable financial future.
Synopsis
Praise for SOMEDAY RICH"Individuals have always needed to know how to make their money last at least as long as they do, but have avoided the discussion and action because the numbers can be depressing. This must-read book for advisors provides a road map for getting to the discussion, the key issues to discuss, and the keys to successful outcomes. The definitive guide for achieving retirement income security has arrived."
—Dallas L. Salisbury, President and CEO, Employee Benefit Research Institute
"Understanding the opportunity for addressing baby-boomer retirement needs is an interesting opportunity. Having the insight of how to connect the right baby boomers to the right solutions turns that interesting opportunity into a compelling mission. That is what this book will do for you."
—Steve Moore, author of Ineffective Habits of Financial Advisors (and the Disciplines to Break Them)
"Too often, discussions of retirement income are thinly veiled product pitches. Someday Rich is different. Solid, research-based analysis is coupled with practical implementation and process. Your clients and your business will be better off because of it."
—Russ Hill, CEO, Halbert Hargrove
"The two authors are veterans, with many decades in the business of individual financial planning and helping wealth advisors in two ways: how to do more sensible things for their clients and how to run an efficient practice. And their experience shows in the wisdom that this book contains."
— From the Foreword by Don Ezra, Co-Chair, Global Consulting,Russell Investments
"In Someday Rich, Noonan, Smith, and their contributors provide an insightful and meaningful way for the advisor to answer the ultimate client question, 'How am I doing?' In a forthright and accessible way, the book shows that the question can be answered with more than platitudes and poorly understood and often misinterpreted simulations. It also demonstrates how an advisor can add true value to their clients instead of playing 'beat the market' as the measure of advisor worth. An important contribution to professionalizing an industry in need of rigor and redefinition."
—Randy Lert, Principal, RPL Consulting
About the Author
Timothy Noonan is Managing Director of Capital Markets Insights for Russell Investments and a leader in the U.S. private wealth management industry. He is responsible for shaping client service strategies and delivering capital markets analysis to advisors in the U.S. and around the world. Noonan is currently Chairman of the Russell Strategic Advice Committee and has been the architect of Russell's Helping Advisors initiative, which since 2008 has offered advisors in the U.S., UK, and Australia insights to help advisors and their clients cope with retirement investing in a hostile economic climate.
Matt Smith is an independent consultant and author and coauthor, respectively, of two other Wiley Finance books, Managing Your Firm's 401(k) Plan: A Complete Road Map to Managing Today's Retirement Plans and The Retirement Plan Solution: The Reinvention of Defined Contribution. He was formerly senior vice president and defined contribution practice leader in the United States for Aon Consulting. Prior to Aon, Smith was managing director of retirement services for Russell Investments. He has been involved with the design, implementation, administration, consulting, and asset management of retirement plans for over twenty-eight years. Smith has written and spoken widely on topics involving retirement plans during his career.
Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
CHAPTER 1 Time for a Real Conversation 11
CHAPTER 2 How We Got Here 27
CHAPTER 3 The Right Clients 43
CHAPTER 4 Connecting the Dots 61
CHAPTER 5 The Personal Asset Liability Model—Funded Status 79
CHAPTER 6 The Personal Asset Liability Model—Investment Plan 101
CHAPTER 7 Making a Good Business of Giving Good Advice 133
CHAPTER 8 Investor Archetypes 161
CHAPTER 9 Tripping Over the Finish Line 171
CHAPTER 10 On Shaping One’s Future 191
Albert Bandura
CHAPTER 11 Building a Simple and Powerful Solution for Retirement Saving—Russell’s Approach to Target Date Funds 203
Grant W. Gardner and Yuan-An Fan
CHAPTER 12 Investment Aspects of Longevity Risk 223
Don Ezra
CHAPTER 13 Mismeasurement of Risk in Financial Planning—A Lesson in Risk Decomposition 237
Richard K. Fullmer
CHAPTER 14 Modern Portfolio Decumulation—A New Strategy for Managing Retirement Income 249
Richard K. Fullmer
APPENDIX A Lessons Learned from Retirement Income Research 273
APPENDIX B The New Language of Retirement 277
About the Authors 283
Index 285