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Advisers: Planning Orientation
AIFLP Organizing Team, "Toward a richness of life: A White Paper on the advantages of integrating financial and life planning and the need for a professional association to promote it", Integrative Adviser, June 2008 (Vol. 1, No. 1)
www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0101.pdf
White Paper used to establish the Association for Integrative Financial and Life Planning
Anderson Keith A., et al, "Hairstylists’ Relationships and Helping Behaviors With Older Adult Clients", Journal of Applied Gerontology, June 2010 (Vol. 29, No. 3)
http://jag.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/29/3/371
The authors studied the close relationships between older patients and their hairdressers, which the authors say point toward the potential inclusion of stylists in community gatekeeper programs that provide an important link between in-formal and formal helping networks.
Integrative Adviser
Association for Integrative Financial and Life Planning, Bi-Monthly, Free
http://www.aiflp.org/AIFLP_publications.htm
A journal to help define and develop what integrative, holistic planning is and how it can work, to promote its adoption, and to advocate for issues that will support clients receiving such advice
Dubofsky, David, and Sussman, Lyle, "Changing Role of the Financial Planner, The, Part 1: From Financial Analytics to Coaching and Life Planning", Journal of Financial Planning, August 2009 (Vol. 22, No. 8)
Dubofsky and Sussman present the eye-opening results of a survey of 1,374 financial planners about their involvement with coaching and life planning within their practices.
Duska, Ronald F., "On Helping Your Retirees", Journal of Financial Service Professionals, January 2011 (Vol. 65, No. 1)
Duska asks: Aside from encouraging your client to plan, is there more you should do? As a professional advisor, should concern for a client go past the concern for the financial interest? What sorts of questions should one ask? What sort of help should one give?
Gallagher, Andrea, "Life Planning Movement, The: The New Advantage for Financial Planners", Integrative Adviser, September 2010 (Vol. 3, No. 3)
http://www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0303.pdf, Free
Gallagher highlights the importance of integrative life planning, especially for people in the second half of life, and discusses the ways in which the Life Planning Network supports the movement of advisors, coaches, and counselors in this direction.
Garmaise, Ena, "Patterns of Financial Well-Being and Their Implications for Financial Advice", Journal of Financial Service Professionals, May 2010
Garmaise employs a new measure of financial well-being — the subjective assessment of financial security and stability — and provides specific recommendations for how patterns in financial well-being can be deployed to frame financial advice
Jetton, Elizabeth, "Putting the Pieces Together for the Third Age", Aging Well, Summer 2008
Jetton makes the case for holistic planning, and collaboration between financial planners and other advising professionals.
Jetton, Elizabeth, Moving from Financial Planning to Financial Life Planning
TIAA-CREF Institute, August 2009, Free
http://www.tiaa-crefinstitute.org/pdf/research/trends_issues/ti_financialplanning0809a.pdf
Jetton describes the scope, importance, methods, and success measurement of holistic planning, urging traditional financial planners to step up to this kind of approach.
Laura, Robert, "Race To Help People Create a Meaningful Retirement, The", Integrative Adviser, September 2011 (Vol. 4, No. 3)
http://www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0403.pdf, Free
Laura discusses two business models that advisers are using to raise awareness about non-financial retirement issues and what they are doing to generate new business.
MacBean, E. Craig, "Integrative Advising", Integrative Adviser, June 2008 (Vol. 1, No. 1)
www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0101.pdf
Makes the case for an approach to advising clients that spans all seven domains of life and that takes into account future stages of life, up to and including death.
MacBean, E. Craig, "Are Integrative Advising - and Seeking Integrative Advice - Ethical Imperatives?", Integrative Adviser, October 2008 (Vol. 1, No. 2)
www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0103.pdf
Argues that as a matter of ethical principle or ethical consequence advisors - financial and otherwise - are obliged, even compelled, to take a broader and more integrative approach to advising their clients than their narrow specialty affords
Maton, Cicily Carson, et al, "Collaborating with a Financial Therapist: The Why, Who, What, and How", Journal of Financial Planning, December 2009 (Vol. 22, No. 12)
The authors argue strongly for collaboration between financial advisors and financial therapists, and provide very practical advice on how to do this in a beneficial, productive fashion.
Nelson, John E., "Planning for Well-Being", Integrative Adviser, June 2010 (Vol. 3, No. 2)
http://www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0302.pdf, Free
Describes why 'well-being' is an ideal organizing concept for holistic planning, and describes a specific approach to implementing that concept.
Sussman, Lyle, and Dubofsky, David, "Changing Role of the Financial Planner, The, Part 2: Prescriptions for Coaching and Life Planning", Journal of Financial Planning, September 2009 (Vol. 22, No. 9)
Sussman and Dubofsky address the personal, professional, and ethical implications of holistic approaches to planning.
Yanikoski, Charles S., "Conceptual Scheme for Integrative Financial and Life Planning, A", Integrative Adviser, December 2008 (Vol. 1, No. 4)
http://www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0104.pdf, Free
Yanikoski presents an overview of a holistic planning concept for older clients, based on information about their metaphysical stance, their personalities, and the facts and circumstances of their lives.
Yanikoski, Charles S., New Wild West, The: Integrating Financial and Life Planning in the Second Half of Life
Still River Retirement Planning Software, Inc., August 2009, Free
http://www.stillriverretire.com/Downloads/IntegrativePlanning_paper.pdf
Yanikoski argues that integrative planning is inevitably in our future, and outlines how it might work.
Advisers: Communication
Clement, Matthew, "Should We Talk About the Weather? The Role of Conversation and Choice in Professional Planning", Integrative Adviser, August 2008 (Vol. 1, No. 2)
http://www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0102.pdf
This article illuminates issues of communication where client/adviser, client/planner, and client/coach relationships have a common bond, and a common challenge
Forgas, Joseph P., "Affective Influences on Self-disclosure: Mood Effects on the Intimacy and Reciprocity of Disclosing Personal Information", Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, March 2011 (Vol. 100, No. 3)
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/100/3/
Forgas reports that people in a good mood are more likely to open up, while those in a bad mood tend to disclose information only to the extent that their conversational partners do so.
Katen, Greagory W. and Michael W., "Impact of Aging on Retirement Income Decision Making, The", Journal of Financial Planning, June 2011 (Vol. 24, No. 6)
The Kastens argue that high risk aversion in pre-retirees and retirees is linked to declines in cognitive abilities, and that new ways of discussing and presenting information, as well as a true fiduciary relationship, are needed in serving this age group.
Van Zutphen, Neal, "Visual Aid for Successful Financial Planning, A: The Happiness Risk / Reward Pyramid", Journal of Financial Planning, January 2010 (Vol. 23, No. 1)
Van Zutphen combines the work of Abraham Maslow and Elizabeth Kübler-Ross with ideas from Changing for Good by Prochaska, Norcross and DiClemente, to create a visual aid that can help planners unite financial concerns with deeper issues.
Walker, Lewis J., "Conversations and Social Networking", Journal of Financial Planning, June 2010 (Vol. 23, No. 6)
Walker encourages the use of social media and other modes of conversation to ex-change ideas that go beyond the num-bers
Advisers: Best practices
Clarkson, Paul, et al, "Integrating Assessments of Older Peo-ple: Examining Evidence and Impact from a Randomised Controlled Trial", Age and Ageing, May 2011 (Vol. 40, No. 3)
http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/3/388.extract
Conducting their research in England, the authors found benefits in integrating medical assessments with those from social service agencies, but they raise the question of whether these benefits are worth the additional cost.
Collaborative Model for Integrative Advising, A: Practitioner’s Guide (AIFLP and the Life Planning Network), December 2010
http://www.AIFLP.org/AIFLP-LPN_Integrative_Advising_Model.htm, Free
Provides instructions and tools for establishing collaborations among professional advisers to deliver integrative (or holistic) planning to clients.
Cordell, David M., and Langdon, Thomas P., "Academic Research That Is Relevant to Financial Service Professionals", Journal of Financial Service Professionals, 2008
Cordell and Langdon argue that advisors should be paying attention to academic research that relates to their field.
Dennis, Helen, "Life Planning Movement, The: Accelerating Growth, Acceptance, and Innovation", Integrative Adviser, March 2011 (Vol. 4, No. 1)
http://www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0401.pdf
Reviews the past, present, and future of life planning, by itself and in conjunction with financial planning, in the U.S.
Duska, Ronald F., "Who Deserves What?", Journal of Financial Service Professionals, September 2009
Duska notes that need, equality, and merit are reasons to come to the aid of the “deserving.” But what should prevail when legitimate concerns conflict?
Kay, Michael F., Business of Life, The
AdvisorPress, 2010, $34.95
http://www.amazon.com/Business-Life-Michael-F-Kay/dp/1603530215/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1301762277&sr=8-1
An excellent step-by-step guide to building a Financial Life Planning practice.
Kay, Michael F., "Positioning: The Transition from Thought to Action", Integrative Adviser, June 2011 (Vol. 4, No. 2)
http://www.aiflp.org/pdfs/IntegrativeAdviserNo0402.pdf, Free
In this excerpt from The Business of Life, Kay explains how advisors can position themselves to move their practices from traditional financial planning to financial life planning, once they have decided to do so.
Advisers: Other / general / not specified
Gerontological Society of America
Active in: USA
1220 L Street NW, Suite 901, Washington, DC 20005
Telephone:202-842-1275
Fax:202-842-1150
http://www.geron.org/
A professional society to promote scientific study of aging in both the biomedical and behavioral/social sciences.
Retirement Options
Active in: USA
556 Wormwood Hill Rd., Mansfield Center, CT 06250
Telephone:860-487-9180
success@retirementoptions.com
http://65.75.50.167/
Offers a 10-session certification course featuring exclusive assessment tools and research-based training.