Stonewood Financial Blog

A Hidden Risk Comes to Light: Preparing Your Clients for Sequence of Returns Risk

Pop Quiz: What’s a big risk of retirement that doesn’t matter much while you’re saving… but can matter a LOT once...

Maximizing Returns: Driving Alpha with Annuities

When you and your clients think about annuities, what comes to mind?

SEO Made Easy: Financial Advisors’ Top Tips & Tricks

Where do you turn for answers? For most of us, it’s Google or similar search engines. A prospective client’s journey to...

From Boomers to Gen Z: A Financial Advisor's Guide to Multi-Generational Marketing

The financial services industry isn't a one-size-fits-all game. Different age groups have distinct financial goals,...

Cracking the Code: How to Optimize Tax-Free Conversions

Advisors who help their clients mitigate tax and legislative risk in retirement naturally spend a lot of time helping...

The Budget Outlook is Worse Than We Thought. What Does it Mean for U.S. Savers?

Believe it or not, our government is fairly transparent when it comes to its own spending - and the impact it could...

Indexing and the Great American Road Trip

It’s summertime, which means many of us are gearing up to participate in that great American tradition: Road Trips....

Heading off on a Summer Vacation? Put Your Lead Gen on AutoPilot

Growing your practice requires generating leads, and for many advisors that means live prospecting events. But as...

Here Are 5 Ways Taxes Can Rise in Retirement… Are Your Clients Prepared?

In a way, taxes are the final frontier of retirement planning. As an industry, financial advisors have helped U.S....

Innovate Virtual Summit: What’s Helping Advisors Grow in 2024

As Elliot Masie said, "We need to bring learning to people instead of people to learning." That's exactly what we did...