With so much uncertainty and negativity pervading our lives, it’s helpful to imagine a future where we witness positive effects of the crisis on the RIA industry.

Many RIAs will naturally find a new equilibrium, one that is based on what was learned from the experiences of the crisis, with these changes remaining in place well into the future—an absolute positive for the industry.

David Edwards, President of Heron Wealth, (https://heronwealth.com/) New York City Financial Advisors and NYC Financial Planning, speaks, discusses current events, answers questions and shares insights regarding Financial Planning in New York during the Coronavirus pandemic and moving from in-person office culture to working online from home.

Completion is increasing for consumers’ attention. Here’s what advisors can do.

See what David Edwards, President and Wealth Advisor of New York-based Heron Wealth, suggests to do.

Journalist Jeffrey Steele of the Chicago Tribune Retirement Newsletter examines many retirees' fear of spending their savings in retirement. Graveyards are filled with people who never got around to spending their hard-earned retirement funds, so anxious are they of going through their nest eggs.

Why is this problem so pervasive among devoted savers?

Longevity risk, the possibility of outliving one's money is the scariest retirement income risk. But fear of volatility causes many investors to shy away from equities and growth investments, says David Edwards, president at Heron Wealth in New York. Edward's bucket strategy apportions 60% to stocks and commodities, 30% to government and corporate bonds and 10% to short-term cash securities

Isaiah Green recently stopped by the office of Heron Wealth in mid-town Manhattan. Here are his impressions:

I swapped my airline boarding pass for a MetroCard as I met with RIAs on my own turf to discuss new hires, fintech solutions and handling whatever the market throws at you.

To start my day, I headed no further than a few floors above Citywire’s humble abode, to the office of Shikiar Asset Management, where I met with managing director Samuel Shikiar.

 For my next meeting, I hopped on the seven train to the east side of Manhattan to sit down with David Edwards, founder and president, and Chris Jennings, wealth advisor at Heron Wealth.

 Edwards, Jennings and their team work out of a sleek, modern WeWork in the heart of New York with spectacular views of the growing skyline and the East River.

Legal sex worker Alice Little tells ThinkAdvisor how she invests her earnings and teaches her colleagues about business management.

Lady of the evening Alice Little is bringing new value to the world’s oldest profession. It’s all part of the 20-something’s ambitious “Million-Dollar Sex Work Business Plan.”

Edwards firmly believes that Fidelity Clearing & Custody Solutions is the only custodian that can handle his business.

‘We chose to take what we call a best-of-breed approach, where we take the best custodian, the best customer relationship management system, the best financial planning tool and the best reporting tool,’ Edwards said. ‘We aggressively evaluate all of our vendors every three years and swap them out if they’re not keeping up.’

Golf Digest hired James Yang to do illustrations at Augusta National during last year’s Masters, part of Golf Digest’s annual First Impressions series by artists, photographers and writers.

One of the biggest cultural touchstones so far in 2019 has been the Netflix reality show "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo."

It stars Japanese organizing consultant Marie Kondo as she helps families clean up their homes using her KonMari method. Ms. Kondo goes through every item one-by-one to decide which items really "spark joy." If it doesn't spark joy, it has to go.