CCR Insights

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Keys to Managing Student Loans

A growing concern for many clients, here are a few keys to understanding student loans and how to effectively manage them.

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How to Talk to Clients About Money and Marriage

Talking to clients about their personal relationships may be awkward, but they are essential conversations to have for effective financial planning.

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Post-College Financial Planning And Debt Relief Tips For Your Clients’ Children

CCR Partner Jonathan Albano offers three important points of guidance for financial advisors working with clients who have children who have recently graduated from college.

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How Advisors Can Help Clients Facing an Empty Nest

Michael Rousseau discusses the importance of supporting your clients facing an empty nest.

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Why Advisors Should Keep Politics Out of Portfolios

In Keeping Politics Out of the Portfolio, published on ThinkAdvisor.com, Jonathan Albano talks about the importance of taking a clients politically fueled emotions out of their investing strategy.

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How to Help Small Business Owners Prep For a Sale

In How to Help Small Business Owners Prep for a Sale, Mark Palmerino gives four keys to assisting clients looking to retire.

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What to Tell Clients Feeling Market Anxiety

How to have a clear-eyed, sober conversation with investors who feel the bull market is long in the tooth.

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Help Your Clients Avoid Disastrous Mistakes When Filling in College Funding Gaps

For parents sending their kids to college this year, the numbers are staggering: the average out-of-state tuition for a four-year public institution is nearly $25,000.

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How Advisors Can Best Educate Clients About Online Financial Tools

Clients don’t rely on WebMD for serious medical concerns, so they shouldn’t trust fintech with all their investing, insurance and tax needs.

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Four Tips For Clients Thinking About Buying a Vacation Home

Even if a client can afford a second home, there are wide array of long-term planning considerations to take into account.

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How Over-Emphasizing Tax Deductions Can Get Your Clients Into Trouble

Now that the tax season is over, this is perhaps the slowest time on the calendar for many financial advisers.

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How To Best Support Politically Divided Couples

Married couples tend to have political views that are relatively in sync, but not always.

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Got Dental Student Loan Debt? Some Tricks to Help You Tackle It

Student loan debt can inhibit dentists’ ability to save money, plan for retirement, buy a house, or get married. There’s a way to alleviate the debt.

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Four Ways to Prep for Retirement in Mass.

Thanks to the financial crisis and the accommodative Federal Reserve policies that have followed, interest rates are no longer supportive of a simple retirement approach.

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Investment Experts On Debt Ceiling: Don’t Panic

With much of the U.S. media focused on the showdown in Washington over the debt ceiling, Central Massachusetts financial advisors are getting their share of calls from concerned investors. Their message: Don’t get too worried.

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Clients Come Out of Their Shells

While markets have fallen sharply in the last month, they still remain lar above the depths or the financial crisis.