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Join more than 1,500 of the nation’s top investments and wealth professionals at the Annual Conference Experience–ACE Nashville, May 6-9. Attend sessions as you like or choose from focused tracks, including: Investment Management, Wealth Management, Advanced Business Strategies, Retirement Management, Institutional Consulting, and the Art & Science of Wholesaling. General sessions, super sessions, workshops, and pre-conference workshops give you plenty of learning options by offering fresh perspectives, and will feature more than 40 of the industry’s foremost thought leaders, award-winning academics and internationally-known experts, such as:

• Dan Ariely, Ph.D., the James B. Duke professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University and columnist, on the psychology of money for investment and wealth managers
• Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., internationally known psychologist and science journalist for on using emotional intelligence to better serve clients
• Pippa Malmgren,...

Although a recession is not imminent, one will eventually occur, and when it does, policymakers will have strategies to address it, if they’re willing to use them, said Stephanie Kelton, an economics professor at Stony Brook University, recently at the Institute’s Investment Advisor Forum. While Kelton did not predict that the current long-running expansion will end soon, she said it eventually would, “The question is when, not whether it will end.” But, expansions do not “die of old age,”...

In order for investment and wealth professionals to remain relevant and competent in a constantly changing financial services industry, their certifications must evolve to address the increasingly complex needs of investors. The Investment and Wealth Institute’s latest research report, “Defining the Future of Investment Advice: Industry Dynamics & CIMA Job Analysis Study,” produced in partnership with Human Resources Research Organization™(HumRRO), explores the process and outcomes of...

Despite events that seemed likely to escalate uncertainty, 2017 was a year of low volatility, solid economic growth and the relentless rise of the stock market. But, the inauguration of an “unprecedented president” in the U.S., his “dystopian” inaugural speech and the beginning of planning for the United Kingdom’s (UK) exit from the European Union are likely to be more disruptive in 2018, according to Kevin Kajiwara, an advisor to Fortune 100 CEOs and major institutional investors on...

“High-Performing Advisor Teams,” a recent research study produced in collaboration with Janus Henderson Investors, concluded that collaborative team environments can significantly drive growth and success for financial advisors. Conducted by Cerulli Associates, the study analyzed 2,800 practices operating across both solo and team-based models. Study participants included advisors operating in branch networks (wirehouse and national/regional broker dealers) and independent channels...

Much of the tax law passed by the U.S. Congress late last year is like an “outline of what they were thinking,” sketched out on the fly, and seriously lacking in details, according to Steven Siegel, president of The Siegel Group, a national tax consulting and estate planning firm. In addition, there are many reasons to believe the measures adopted will be reversed or changed fairly quickly, Siegel said at a special session on the new law at the Investment & Wealth Institute’s Investment...