(Lisa Shidler | RIABiz)

The Division of Labor (DoL), in its position overseeing retirement plans ruled by ERISA (e.g., employer-sponsored 401(ok) and 403(b) plans), has gone via a multi-year course of throughout three presidential administrations updating its ‘fiduciary rule’ governing the supply of recommendation on these plans. The DoL fiduciary customary first formally proposed in 2016 below the Obama administration took a comparatively stringent strategy (the place commission-based conflicts of curiosity needed to be averted altogether), however encountered quite a few delays below the Trump administration, and was finally vacated by the Fifth Circuit Court docket of Appeals in 2018 (below the auspices that brokers and insurance coverage brokers are merely salespeople and should not be held to a fiduciary customary as a result of they aren’t able of ‘belief and confidence’ with their prospects), earlier than being resurrected and adopted in a extra permissive kind (e.g., permitting broker-dealers to obtain fee compensation for giving purchasers recommendation involving plans ruled by ERISA so long as the broker-dealer in any other case acts within the consumer’s finest curiosity when giving that recommendation) in December 2020.

However now, the DoL has indicated {that a} new fiduciary rule could possibly be launched as quickly as subsequent week. Whereas the contents of the brand new rule are unknown, professional ERISA legal professional Fred Reish thinks that it may fall in the course of the Obama and Trump guidelines, because the administration must keep in mind the Fifth Circuit ruling that vacated the unique Obama rule. Reish speculated {that a} new rule may present {that a} single advice might be thought of fiduciary recommendation (versus solely suggestions made frequently, which traditionally exempted transactional advisors as a result of they weren’t in an ‘ongoing’ recommendation relationship). For instance, the brand new rule may state that if an advisor or insurance coverage agent has a relationship of belief and confidence with the participant (e.g., by holding out as an advisor within the first place), then a rollover advice will likely be fiduciary recommendation, even when it is in any other case ‘transactional’ and never ongoing recommendation that continues after the rollover is accomplished.

A former DoL official has beforehand advised that associated modifications may embrace amending the five-part fiduciary take a look at, making changes to Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2020-02 (PTE 2020-02), and reexamining present PTEs, akin to PTE 84-24 (which allows sure commissionable insurance coverage gross sales in retirement plans). Notably, the ‘new’ fiduciary rule must undergo your entire discover and remark course of required by the Administrative Procedures Act, together with a remark interval as soon as the proposed regulation is printed within the Federal Register.

Individually, the DoL this week finalized a rule to explicitly allow retirement plan fiduciaries to think about Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) components when deciding on investments and exercising shareholder rights (e.g., proxy votes), reversing a Trump-era regulation that Reish described as considerably opposed to using ESG components for choosing plan funding and which prohibited ESG-factor-qualified default funding options. The rule will likely be efficient 60 days after its publication within the Federal Register aside from a delayed applicability till one yr after publication for sure proxy voting provisions to permit fiduciaries and funding managers extra time to arrange.

In the end, the important thing level is that whereas there’s a lengthy highway forward for a ‘Biden’ fiduciary rule, the DoL seems to be signaling that it needs increased requirements than these below the Trump-era rule presently in place (notably with regards to figuring out when an insurance coverage agent or broker-dealer registered consultant has a fiduciary obligation to their purchasers and goes past ‘simply’ serving as a transactional salesperson). And given the finalized ESG guidelines, the Biden administration has proven that it’s ready to behave with regards to reversing advisor-related laws created in the course of the earlier administration!

(Stacy Cowley and Zolan Kanno-Youngs | The New York Instances)

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a sequence of legislative actions and regulatory actions to assist enhance the economic system and ease the burden on shoppers, from the CARES Act enacted in the course of the Trump administration to the American Rescue Plan enacted in the course of the present Biden administration. Along with measures akin to stimulus checks and enhanced unemployment compensation, one of many frequent areas addressed in these efforts was deal with Federal scholar mortgage debt. The CARES Act initially put a pause on Federal scholar mortgage funds via September 30, 2020, however this deadline has been repeatedly prolonged, and, till this week, was set to run out on December 31.

However now, amid legal challenges which have halted its broader plan to deal with Federal scholar mortgage debt, the Biden administration introduced this week that the pause on Federal scholar mortgage funds will proceed till 60 days after the courtroom circumstances are resolved, or till 60 days after June 30 if the circumstances usually are not resolved. In different phrases, for scholar mortgage debtors who have been anticipating funds to renew on January 1, 2023, that preliminary reimbursement date could also be pushed again so far as September 1, 2023!

The authorized challenges that triggered the prolonged fee pause have been introduced by six states and problem Biden’s sweeping scholar mortgage debt aid plan that, amongst different measures, would cancel as much as $20,000 of Federal scholar mortgage debt for sure debtors and create a brand new Revenue-Pushed Compensation (IDR) plan that might restrict funds on Federal undergraduate loans to five% of the borrower’s discretionary earnings and forgives loans of lower than $12,000 after 10 years of funds. This week, the U.S. Court docket of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued an injunction blocking the plan and the Biden administration has requested the U.S. Supreme Court docket to overturn the ruling.

Altogether, the string of non permanent measures and courtroom rulings have made scholar mortgage planning more difficult for monetary advisors and their purchasers with scholar mortgage debt. For now, scholar mortgage debtors will now not must resume funds beginning January 1, however the date they’ll resume (and once they may obtain aid below the broader scholar mortgage plan) stays unclear. In the long run, the continued modifications to the Federal scholar mortgage program give advisors the chance so as to add vital worth to purchasers with scholar loans, not solely by staying abreast of the most recent modifications, but additionally by serving to them formulate a plan for when funds resume and if/when the aid package deal is carried out!

(Jeff Benjamin | InvestmentNews)

The financial setting of the previous decade—with low rates of interest, sturdy market efficiency, and comparatively sturdy financial development—coupled with an getting old cadre of advisory agency house owners, contributed to a surge in RIA mergers and acquisitions (M&A) exercise lately. However whereas deal move remained sturdy via the primary three quarters of 2022, M&A exercise seems to be slowing amid increased rates of interest, slumping markets, and cooling financial situations.

In accordance with consulting agency DeVoe & Co., October and November are on tempo for about 15 offers per 30 days, down considerably from the month-to-month quantity of 23 transactions for the primary 9 months of 2022. Whereas 2022 is prone to set a file for offers (with 227 transactions via November 15, on tempo to prime the 241 offers seen in 2021), it stays unclear whether or not the present slowdown is non permanent or an indication of additional hassle forward, in response to DeVoe.

Along with placing strain on deal quantity, the present financial setting may change deal constructions as nicely. Because the struggles of inventory and bond markets this yr wreak havoc on consumer portfolios (and income for companies charging on an property below administration foundation), some agency house owners is perhaps reluctant to promote when their income numbers – an essential agency valuation metric – are (maybe briefly) decrease than they as soon as have been. And so, to entice sellers, some acquirers may supply mechanisms to recoup among the worth that they’ve misplaced on account of the market setting (as a agency proprietor will need to keep away from ‘promoting low’!).

The important thing level is that whereas the frenetic tempo of RIA M&A is perhaps slowing down, there seems to proceed to be curiosity from each consumers and sellers in consummating offers, at the least below the ‘proper’ phrases. So whereas the present market setting is perhaps dampening valuations, agency house owners can contemplate finest place their companies for a sale (although, paradoxically, doing so may cut back their want to truly promote it?).

(Annie Lowrey | The Atlantic)

Housing is the biggest month-to-month expense for a lot of American households. Lately, housing has change into dearer for each renters and consumers, and, amid an increase in rates of interest, may change into much more expensive within the months and years forward. And whereas there are a selection of potential public coverage measures that might assist ameliorate this case—notably in among the highest-cost cities like New York, San Francisco, and Boston—advisors also can assist their purchasers work via this difficult state of affairs.

Nationwide, 47% of renters spend greater than 30% of their earnings on lease and utilities, with one in 4 spending greater than half of their earnings on shelter. This cannot solely make it difficult to afford housing as a renter, but additionally makes it tough to economize for a down fee to purchase a house. Additional, rising mortgage charges will make it much more difficult to purchase a house (except housing costs fall precipitously). One of many major causes of excessive housing prices is restrictive allowing practices in lots of main metropolitan areas (usually these which might be producing probably the most new jobs) that make it tougher to construct new properties. For example, New York Metropolis issued fewer new housing permits within the 2010s than it did within the 2000s and even within the Sixties, recurrently creating extra jobs than house. Usually, present owners (maybe afraid that their house values will fall amid new housing provide) push again towards allowing reform that might enable for brand spanking new, and denser, building.

Amid this thorny coverage debate, advisors will help purchasers navigate this difficult housing setting. At a broad degree, they will help purchasers discover the place they need to stay, each by way of location (as there may be vital variability in rental and residential costs all through the nation) and sort of unit (probably buying and selling dimension for a extra reasonably priced worth), maybe benefiting from the pliability of distant work preparations provided by some corporations. And with regards to shopping for a house with right this moment’s comparatively excessive mortgage charges, analyzing completely different mortgage varieties (e.g., adjustable-rate mortgages may change into more and more enticing) and exploring various financing preparations (e.g., an intra-family mortgage mortgage), may assist purchasers meet their housing targets!

(Francine Russo | The Wall Road Journal)

Mother and father are sometimes seen as a major supply of recommendation for youngsters and younger adults. However as adults strategy center age (and the mother and father become older), they usually discover themselves wanting to offer their mother and father recommendation. And the vacation season, when household gatherings are extra prevalent, is commonly a tempting time to offer mother and father unsolicited recommendation, whether or not it pertains to their dwelling state of affairs, funds, or well being.

However usually, this recommendation can pressure the parent-child relationship, as mother and father is perhaps proof against taking recommendation from their kids (or maybe are reluctant to acknowledge that they’re getting old), and kids develop more and more annoyed when their mother and father don’t take their recommendation. A primary step towards lowering this battle (whereas nonetheless making an attempt to speak recommendation to the guardian) is to keep away from coming throughout as patronizing or overbearing (even when unintentionally). This may usually be achieved by contemplating the guardian’s perspective; maybe their upbringing left them with completely different attitudes or preferences (e.g., these whose mother and father lived via the Nice Despair may need inherited conservative attitudes in direction of investing) that may make sense given the guardian’s personal expertise, however appear unusual from the attitude of their kids’s era. This sense of empathy will help to raised craft an strategy for giving recommendation to folks that acknowledges their distinctive circumstances (additionally strategy for monetary advisors!).

Additional, it is vital for grownup kids to acknowledge that they may have unconscious motives for giving recommendation; maybe they need their mother and father to acknowledge that they’re a profitable or ‘good’ little one by listening to the kid’s recommendation. That is essential to acknowledge to make sure that recommendation is definitely being given for the guardian’s sake and never the kid’s. One other manner for grownup kids to arrange for the dialog is to run their recommendation previous a impartial acquaintance first, to not solely guarantee their message is coming throughout clearly but additionally to take among the emotion out of the state of affairs. Alternatively, if the mother and father are unlikely to be receptive to recommendation coming from their little one, an alternate particular person (e.g., a sibling or pal of the guardian) could possibly be enlisted, both to hitch the dialog or to supply the recommendation themselves.

In the end, the important thing level is that lots of the strategies monetary advisors use to construct their relationship with their purchasers (e.g., asking questions and contemplating alternate situations earlier than diving into giving recommendation) are related with regards to giving recommendation to their very own mother and father as nicely. So earlier than allotting recommendation to folks with Thanksgiving dinner, contemplate each how the recommendation is being served and whether or not an alternate strategy is perhaps more practical!

(Meb Faber Analysis)

The tip of the yr is commonly a busy time for monetary advisors, as they assist purchasers with year-end tax planning, taking the right RMDs, and different time-sensitive duties. However there are additionally some maybe lesser-known alternatives to assist purchasers get monetary savings and construct loyalty within the course of!

One alternative for purchasers is to examine for any unclaimed property at Unclaimed.org. This permits them to seek for property, from belief proceeds to dividend checks, that’s legally theirs however presently sits in authorities coffers as a result of it has been unclaimed. One other potential ‘fast’ win is for purchasers to evaluate their subscriptions and companies that cost charges, from the streaming service they haven’t watched all yr to a bank card they now not use, to see if any might be eradicated.

Advisors also can take the lead on many of those alternatives. For instance, as rates of interest have risen this yr, the unfold between rates of interest provided by completely different banks and monetary platforms has widened. And so, analyzing purchasers’ money administration methods and serving to them transfer their funds to a higher-earning account may result in them incomes a whole bunch and even hundreds of {dollars} of extra curiosity within the coming yr. Relatedly, for purchasers who is perhaps holding a big amount of money on the sidelines, having a dialog about probably placing it into the market (if known as for of their monetary plan) could possibly be worthwhile for them within the yr forward.

In the end, the important thing level is that along with the ‘conventional’ end-of-year companies advisors present to their purchasers, they’ve a number of different choices to assist their purchasers earn or maintain extra of their cash. Which is usually a useful manner for advisors to indicate how a lot worth they’re including to their purchasers (in greenback phrases or in any other case) all year long, serving to to justify their charge within the course of!

(Sheryl Rowling | Morningstar)

When monetary advisors talk about asset allocation in retirement with purchasers, it’s usually by way of shares and bonds (e.g., a 60% inventory / 40% bond portfolio). However purchasers will usually have one other asset that’s essential to think about in these calculations: their Social Safety advantages.

Advisors and their purchasers have a number of potential methods to strategy incorporating Social Safety advantages in asset allocations. Basically, Social Safety supplies a lifetime annuity with inflation changes, and as such may symbolize a portion of a consumer’s fixed-income allocation in retirement. And so, one possibility to include Social Safety is to create an allocation equivalency; utilizing this methodology, the advisor calculates an equal funding principal for the Social Safety profit primarily based on the web current worth of all future profit funds (e.g., utilizing a 4% fee of return, a $3,345 month-to-month profit fee over a 20-year interval can be the equal of an funding principal of about $1 million). The advisor then incorporates this equal principal into the funding portfolio, after which applies the chosen asset allocation to the brand new, ‘bigger’ portfolio. Whereas this may result in a better fairness publicity (and certain increased volatility) within the non-Social Safety portion of the funding portfolio than earlier than incorporating the Social Safety advantages (e.g., the funding portfolio may now be 65% shares and 35% bonds), the consumer’s total asset allocation (with the Social Safety advantages being handled as fastened earnings) will proceed to resemble their unique goal asset allocation.

An alternative choice is to modify to a “bucket” technique, the place the Social Safety profit is utilized to non-discretionary bills akin to housing, meals, and insurance coverage (as a result of it represents ‘assured’ month-to-month earnings). This may make a consumer extra assured in having a extra aggressive asset allocation (relying on their targets), because the funding portfolio solely must cowl any remaining non-discretionary bills and different spending (lowering required withdrawals throughout years when the portfolio declines in worth).

Along with contemplating how Social Safety advantages work together with a consumer’s broader asset allocation, advisors can add vital worth by serving to purchasers with claiming choices and contemplating asset location and withdrawal timing methods (together with potential Roth conversions) to maximise their earnings in retirement and total wealth. The important thing level, although, is that with regards to making a retirement asset allocation for a consumer, it is very important incorporate Social Safety advantages within the course of!

(David Blanchett | Advisor Views)

One of many chief considerations of economic planning purchasers and prospects is having sufficient cash to cowl their spending all through their retirement. And as life expectations have elevated over the a long time, the longevity threat of outliving one’s retirement {dollars} has change into more and more essential to think about. For which many purchasers desire to cowl their retirement spending wants via withdrawals from the continued long-term development of a portfolio, whereas others desire to include guaranteed-income advantages (usually via annuities) partly to safeguard towards the potential for a market downturn reducing their spending capacity in retirement (i.e., sequence of return threat).

And so, the monetary companies trade has created a spread of annuity merchandise that present assured earnings to deal with the considerations of the latter group. At its most straightforward, a Single Premium Instant Annuity (SPIA) supplies a lifetime stream of earnings in change for an irrevocable upfront premium fee. However for some retirees, SPIAs usually are not enticing as a result of the earnings funds are fastened and don’t alter if market returns are sturdy (although in fact, one of many advantages of an SPIA is that the funds don’t lower if market returns are weak). Retirees who need extra upside are sometimes drawn to variable annuity merchandise, that are marketed as permitting for upside potential whereas nonetheless cushioning at the least among the draw back threat (as an illustration, with a Assured Lifetime Withdrawal Profit (GLWB), which permits entry to the annuity contract worth because it grows however nonetheless ensures a minimal degree of lifetime earnings even when the underlying account worth goes to zero).

However as a result of the GLWB characteristic will increase the danger to the issuing insurance coverage firm (as they’ll nonetheless must pay advantages to these annuity holders whose accounts are depleted, and might be hit with numerous funds without delay if a sizeable bear market triggers a big cohort of retirees to deplete their money worth and depend on the assure unexpectedly), many insurers have stopped providing this product. As an alternative, some have launched product options that Blanchett dubs Protected Lifetime Revenue Advantages (PLIBs). Whereas payouts from PLIBs are much like GLWBs, in that PLIBs present some quantity of assured earnings for all times even when the underlying account worth goes to zero, the earnings from the PLIB modifications over time primarily based on efficiency (of the investments chosen, and in addition of mortality outcomes, relying on the construction). The important thing distinction is that whereas the chance of an earnings enhance is considerably increased with a PLIB versus a GLWB, earnings from a PLIB can truly decline if the returns are detrimental (whereas earnings cannot lower for a GLWB), lowering the danger for the insurer.

General, for purchasers who don’t need to make an irrevocable annuity premium fee (e.g., by buying a SPIA) and who won’t have the ability to discover an annuity with a GLWB rider with enticing phrases within the present market (as insurers have reined of their availability), utilizing an annuity with PLIBs could possibly be a probably helpful various, notably if they’re prepared to tackle extra funding threat (i.e., can settle for that their earnings payout may lower in sure years). Although on the identical time, advisors might want to consider whether or not the prices of the annuity and associated PLIB riders are value the advantages to the consumer, since if purchasers proceed to bear an excessive amount of of the upside and draw back threat of market actions, the price of the PLIB rider’s ‘ensures’ might not be more practical than merely proudly owning a well-diversified portfolio within the first place!?

(Jacqueline Sergeant | Monetary Advisor)

Continued excessive ranges of inflation has been one of many key storylines of 2022. With the Client Worth Index (CPI) reaching an annualized 9.1% in June (earlier than ‘dipping’ to 7.7% by November), rising costs are on the minds of many monetary planning purchasers. However as a result of many advantages and contribution limits are linked to modifications in CPI, these changes can create planning alternatives for advisors and their purchasers.

To begin, recipients of Social Safety will obtain an 8.7% Price Of Residing Adjustment (COLA) beginning in 2023, serving to to defray among the sting of upper costs. As well as, purchasers who’ve pensions which might be adjusted for inflation will see increased funds as nicely within the coming yr. For instance, retired authorities staff below the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) will geta an 8.7% COLA, whereas these below the Federal Staff Retirement System (FERS) will see a 7.7 bump of their pension advantages in 2023.

Adjustments in CPI additionally have an effect on a number of tax calculations. For example, the usual deduction for married {couples} submitting collectively for tax yr 2023 will rise by 7% to $27,700 (with comparable will increase for these submitting below completely different statuses as nicely), lowering the earnings topic to taxation for a lot of filers. As well as, tax brackets are adjusted for inflation, so a person who sees their earnings rise alongside inflation won’t essentially pay extra in taxes. And with regards to retirement saving, the contribution limits for 401(ok)s and different tax-advantaged employer financial savings plans will enhance by $2,000 to $22,500 in 2023, whereas the restrict for IRA contributions will rise to $6,500 (and catch-up contributions for these 50 and older will bounce from $6,500 to $7,500).

In the end, the important thing level is that whereas elevated inflation continues to sting shoppers, advisors can present context to purchasers on its impression (e.g., by updating their monetary plan with their new Social Safety profit and maybe contemplate adjusting inflation assumptions) and assist them benefit from elevated contribution limits (a possible end-of-year value-add as purchasers make their office contribution elections for 2023!).

(Brett & Kate McKay | The Artwork Of Manliness)

Many busy professionals attempt to arrange their lives by having set routines. For instance, they may get up at 7:00 am, train for half-hour, after which eat breakfast earlier than beginning work. Or maybe they put aside time each night to learn a e-book. By making a structured schedule, because the pondering goes, it’s tougher for a person to overlook (or ‘overlook’) to complete a process they need to full.

On the identical time, such set schedules might be brittle. For instance, in case your little one wakes up sick within the morning, there won’t be any time to train. Or maybe going out with buddies within the night cuts into the allotted time interval for studying. In these circumstances, the ‘should do’ process can go undone in the course of the day (and after just a few days of not finishing the duty, it could actually usually unintentionally fall out of the routine altogether). As an alternative, an alternate strategy is to create a ‘day by day routine guidelines’, the place as an alternative of assigning sure duties to a particular time of the day, you create an inventory of duties that you just need to full by the tip of the day. So in case you are going out with buddies within the night, maybe you get your studying in throughout lunch that day (permitting you to maintain your studying ‘streak’ intact).

And given the big selection of duties (and potential interruptions) that monetary advisors face throughout a given day, utilizing a ‘guidelines’ strategy may enable for extra flexibility in getting required duties accomplished inside a given day (and when truly doing monetary planning for purchasers, a checklist-based strategy can advisors keep on prime of the various planning issues that any given consumer could require). The important thing level is that whether or not you are attempting to begin a meditation follow or are reviewing duties in your CRM, utilizing a guidelines slightly than a set routine can probably make it extra possible that this stuff are literally accomplished!

(Eric Soda | Spilled Espresso)

Within the 21^st century, there aren’t any scarcity of potential distractions. From the excessive tech (e.g., cell telephones with an infinite variety of apps that ‘should’ be checked routinely) to the low tech (e.g., spouses and children when working from house), sustaining deal with the duty at hand might be difficult. However there are a number of small modifications you can also make to reduce distractions and change into extra productive!

Smartphones are sometimes a central supply of distraction, however there are a number of methods to forestall them from consuming away at your productiveness. Essentially the most blunt methodology is to place the cellphone out of sight, both by turning it off or by placing it in one other room. However as a result of having a smartphone close by for private or skilled causes is commonly mandatory, adjusting the settings on the cellphone can at the least cut back its energy for distraction. This may embrace eradicating notifications from all apps and blocking all cellphone numbers that aren’t in your contacts (sending them on to voicemail). Relatedly, eradicating laptop notifications (e.g., when a brand new e-mail arrives) and staying off of social media (so addicting!) can additional eradicate potential distractions.

Outdoors of know-how, time blocking your actions might be an efficient methodology to get your priorities accomplished. For instance, setting apart a 30-minute time block in the course of the day to answer to emails will possible result in higher productiveness than answering the emails as they arrive in. Additional, making a mindset of “accessibility” (capable of be reached) slightly than “availability” (all the time at a consumer’s disposal) will help by extra deliberately aligning your time with the experiences you need to have (and the duties you need to full).

In the long run, as a result of every individual faces a unique set of distractions, there isn’t any single ‘finest follow’ for eliminating them. However by taking a purposeful take a look at the way you make your self accessible to others, in addition to your cellphone and laptop use (or by taking an much more structured strategy to finishing duties), you’ll be able to enhance your focus and get extra carried out in the course of the workday!

(Khe Hy | RadReads)

For a monetary advisor, it could actually generally seem to be there may be not sufficient time within the day to deal with the vary of potential issues that could possibly be carried out. And generally, this implies triaging completely different requests that come your manner. However for many individuals, saying no to a request (notably whether it is from somebody you want!) is usually a problem, even when it’s the smartest thing in your productiveness.

For instance, say you’re invited to a brainstorming assembly with a number of of your fellow advisors. Whereas you haven’t any different conferences in the course of the time allotted for the brainstorm, you may have a consumer assembly later within the day for which you wish to put together. You resolve to say no the assembly however are not sure reply with out burning any bridges together with your coworkers.

Step one is to set agency boundaries. For instance, on this case you possibly can inform your fellow advisors that you don’t schedule inside conferences on days when you may have a consumer assembly later within the day. Subsequent, providing a possible resolution can present respect for the requestor. For example, within the case of the brainstorm you possibly can supply your concepts in e-mail format (or maybe as a video message that could possibly be performed in the course of the assembly). The important thing, although, is to be agency in order that the requestor acknowledges that is your last resolution (e.g., so that they don’t supply to shorten the assembly from one hour to half-hour, when that also violates your ‘no inside conferences on days with consumer conferences’ rule).

In the long run, saying ‘no’ to others might be difficult, even in the event you acknowledge the significance of setting boundaries. However as a result of doing so can be sure that you’ll be able to deal with high-leverage work and meet your commitments to others, with the ability to decline conferences in a diplomatic manner is a crucial talent to grasp!

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