Evan Cooper

2 weeks ago | theamericanconservative.com | Will Smith |Evan Cooper

Foreign Affairs To Make a Deal with Iran, Abandon Maximalist Demands A nuclear agreement would avert war but requires flexibility. Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... President Donald Trump wants a deal with Iran and is uniquely positioned to obtain one.

3 weeks ago | wealthmanagement.com | Evan Cooper

With the status of Medicare a lightning rod for attention as the budget and tax legislation makes its way through Congress, I thought I’d check in with my go-to expert on Medicare, Dr. Katy Votava. “There is always high anxiety about changes in Medicare, but there is an extreme level of uncertainty now. People are more anxious than ever about what will happen, and that gets in the way of making decisions and creates tremendous opportunities for big mistakes,” she said.

1 month ago | wealthmanagement.com | Evan Cooper

For a quarter century, Terry Bell has been taking the temperature of wealth management businesses and practices across the English-speaking world. Most of his “patients”—firms in his home country of Australia, as well as those in the U.S., New Zealand and Canada—are doing well, since demand for advice among the countries’ aging populations has never been greater. But most advisors, he says, could help themselves and their clients by becoming better at providing advice.

1 month ago | wealthmanagement.com | Evan Cooper

DC plan record keepers are primed to fill a potential retirement advice void. If the numbers crunched by McKinsey & Company are to be believed, millions of wealthy retirees and near retirees could be desperately searching for a financial advisor by 2034. In my warped mind, that conjures hordes of gray-headed placard carriers loitering on city streets and clogging freeway exits, begging for financial help.

1 month ago | wealthmanagement.com | Evan Cooper

Many clients and advisors feel uncomfortable discussing emotion-laden issues that don’t lend themselves to mathematically precise answers. The ability of people in their 30s, 40s and 50s to visualize their future selves—that is, to see themselves, literally and figuratively, as someone 80 or older—leads to better retirement-related decisions.