As a financial advisor, the
issue is commonly, "where do I find the
right clients?" If you want to specialize
in handling investor's retirement funds, and
particularly their IRA distributions and qualified
plan distributions, then the above links will
help you immensely. It's the combination of the
technical and marketing aspects that are important.
For example, once you use the marketing tools
to meet a prospect, it's your technical understanding
of IRA distribution issues that has you ask such
powerful questions as:
- who are your IRA beneficiaries
(and when they mention their children, you
can explain that by NOT leaving IRA assets
to a trust, those assets are subject to creditors
and spouses who become ex-spouses)
- if one of your beneficiaries
predecease you, who gets their IRA distribution
share (most investors know nothing about per
stripes and per capita issues and that their
custodian will make the allocation decision)
- do you still have assets
in a qualified plan? (bad news for beneficiaries
as most plans will not allow a non-spouse beneficiary
to stretch the IRA)
Therefore, the perfect combination
is to have the technical
education that you can quickly obtain and
then use the marketing tools to attract a continuous
stream of affluent IRA owners for competent IRA
distribution planning, advice and management.
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