Last but not least, your wealth manager should take a holistic approach to managing your portfolio by initiating cooperation with your other advisers, such as accountants, lawyers and insurance agents.

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A. If you don't want to get involved at all in the nitty-gritty of managing your place from afar, hire a professional property manager.

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So much so that if you were getting that sort of performance off your own genius as an investment manager then you really should be on Wall Street managing a few billions for others and becoming dynastically wealthy by charging them 2 and 20 to manage the money.

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"Where before users would pick up their phone, taking their eyes off the road and hands off the steering wheel while driving to select a station and hit play, AppLink makes all of that functionality available through voice control, just like managing AM and FM radio or your MP3 player through SYNC, " said Julius Marchwicki, SYNC product manager.

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