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FPApubs

  1. Preview the June Journal's 10Q interviewee, @RickKahler, in a podcast on private equity & planners using planners: fpanet.org/Journal/Home/P… ~CN
  2. Get a jump on the June Journal with this podcast of Jon Guyton introducing his retirement column: fpanet.org/Journal/Home/P… ~CN
  3. A blog post on Kolbe and Trust at #FPARetreat can be found on FPA's Practice Mgmt. Center Blog here: bit.ly/bzHFkx ~CN
  4. Forbes: Kolbe test to discover which family members are best in which care-giving roles (data gathering, planning, etc.) #FPARetreat ~CN
  5. Herbers: I don’t believe in mission stmts; no one ever looks at them. Vision should simply be: how big do I want to grow? #FPARetreat ~CN
  6. Finke: Tell us when you have a question from the field to test -- we want to research topics useful to planners in practice #FPARetreat ~CN
  7. Finke: Planners and academics need to work together to develop a profession with evidence-based practices. #FPARetreat ~CN
  8. At Cole breakfast: If you want to invest in stocks, invest in traded REITs: liquidity = more volatility & correlation. #FPARetreat ~CN
  9. @MichaelKitces You've been an invaluable go-to resource for JFP for years, and now we get you "officially." The sky's the limit! ~CN
  10. Finke: 8k German bank customers offered free fin. planning; 5% took it. In addition to fees, costs are time, emotion, etc. #FPARetreat ~CN
  11. JFP paper mentioned on slide in Guyton presentation on dynamic sustainable w/d policies (login req'd): bit.ly/KFdSam #FPARetreat ~CN
  12. Sipolt: Risk of losing Gen X/Y children of clients if you don't have somebody on your team who looks similar to them in age #FPARetreat ~CN
  13. At TD Ameritrade breakfast on generation gap, Gen Yers at my table taking notes with pens and paper -- boomers using iPads! #FPARetreat ~CN
  14. G. Miller: When picking fund mgr., check out all funds they offer, not just 1 you want. Best fund families focus on 1 thing. #FPARetreat ~CN
  15. Solow: Time to tell academics & money managers "the emperor has no clothes": the theory of an efficient market is bankrupt. #FPARetreat ~CN
  16. Valuation paper from Dec. 2011 JFP that Ken Solow mentioned in Portfolio Mgmt. session at #FPARetreat (login req.): bit.ly/KaYRxu ~CN
  17. Mere hours into #FPARetreat & already bumped into JFP columnists & contributors: @RickKahler, @MichaelKitces, Guyton, Meredith & Hayden ~CN
  18. Yep, that's the new issue of the Journal posted for your reading pleasure (w/ digital edition, podcast, etc.): fpanet.org/journal/. ~CN