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Investment Advisor April 4, 2011 Savita Iyer-Ahrestani	Advisors Beware: The Downside of Behavioral Finance A superficial understanding of behavioral finance can be counterproductive
On Wall Street July 1, 2010	Five Questions With Mark Spina Spina leads sales, business development, relationship management, training and service teams covering broker-dealers, banks and RIAs. Here he speaks about the important issues between advisors and clients.
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On Wall Street October 1, 2010 Denise Federer	The Behavior Profile Are you a perceptive financial advisor? Being able to identify your client's financial decision-making and investment style is important in communicating effectively with them.
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On Wall Street October 1, 2008	The 2008 Retirement Roundtable Our industry experts gather to discuss the big issues facing financial advisors and their clients. Read their opinions on the decumulation phase of retirement plans
Investment Advisor November 2009 Olivia Mellan	Cover Story: Reassessing Risk Clients who are too conservative need to be educated that they have only traded investment risk for inflation risk.
On Wall Street December 1, 2010 Denise Federer	Creating Better Branch Manager Relationships Have you ever considered the role your branch manager's actions play in your success and satisfaction as a financial advisor?
Finance & Development September 2009 Jeremy Clift	Questioning a Chastened Priesthood A profile of psychologist Daniel Kahneman about the psychological research of economic science.
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On Wall Street June 1, 2010 Denise Federer	When Good Clients Behave Badly Learning how and why your clients think is critical to helping them make sound financial decisions.
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Financial Advisor December 2006 Lewis Altfest	Behavioral Financial Planning Behavioral financial planning is not so much an alternative way of looking at personal financial planning as it is a practical supplement to it. Knowing what motivates people and finding ways of improving results is what behavioral planning is all about.
Registered Rep. September 1, 2005 Grove & Prince	Theory to Practice For many advisors, the evolution to wealth manager remains a matter of theory, not practice. Sure, they're calling themselves wealth managers, but they're still behaving like financial advisors.
Financial Planning February 1, 2007 Dan Wheeler	The Science of Success Long-term evidence proves that discipline and diversification are more effective than trying to beat the market. But keeping financial advisory clients disciplined can be extraordinarily difficult.
Financial Planning April 1, 2006 John J. Bowen	The Enemy Within Use the principles of behavioral finance to keep your clients -- and yourself -- from making costly investment mistakes.
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Investment Advisor April 2010 Olivia Mellan	Cover Story: The Upside of Irrationality Dan Ariely, a professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University, has wondered for years why people often don't act in their own best interest. As advisors, how can you use this knowledge?
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On Wall Street August 1, 2009 Jim McCarthy	Managing Retirement Risk: It's All About Attitude Managing retirement risk for clients with less than $5 million in assets is quite possibly the most difficult job faced by a financial advisor.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2005 Pam Black	Does Your Client Have That Personality? Whether it's a Myers-Briggs, a DISC test or an online appraisal, what reps are learning is that it pays to get into their clients heads.
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Financial Advisor April 2004 Marla Brill	Recent Lessons From Behavioral Finance Don't look for logic in the way investors act, say these experts.
Registered Rep. September 1, 2004 David A. Gaffen	Clean Machines Not all of these Top 50 Advisors have spotless records, but their ability to build such huge practices speaks to how astute they are in avoiding the sorts of complaints that can bring an advisory to its knees.
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