Page 77: Inflation protection letters. I wrote this one because 2026 is still the year everyone is at least a little bit anxious about inflation. After two years of CPI decline from the 2022 peaks, we're in a period of cautious optimism punctuated by monthly numbers that occasionally remind everyone that "contained" and "gone" are not the same thing. Advisors who have clients with significant fixed income, recent retirees living on bond coupons, or any client who mentioned "I'm worried about inflation" in the last 24 months need a letter template for this. I wrote four: the inflation environment update (the evergreen one, works at any CPI reading), the TIPS and I Bonds recommendation letter (explaining the mechanics without making it sound like a Rube Goldberg machine), the real assets diversification letter (REITs, commodities, and dividend growers as complementary rather than competing strategies), and the purchasing power protection review. The asset comparison table took the longest — trying to explain that TIPS funds and individual TIPS have meaningfully different risk profiles depending on whether you hold to maturity is genuinely hard to fit in a table without footnoting the whole thing.

Page 78: Bond ladder letters. This one has been on my list for a while. Bond ladders are one of those strategies that are intuitively elegant — bonds maturing every year, regular income, no need to predict rate movements — but genuinely confusing when a client first encounters their statement. A client who sees "TIPS 4.25% 2027," "TIPS 4.625% 2029," and a dozen other line items doesn't necessarily see "income certainty for the next decade." They see a wall of unfamiliar securities and wonder if they were in an S&P 500 index fund three years ago. The bond ladder letter bridges that gap. Templates for: the introduction letter when the ladder is first established, the annual ladder review (including the weighted average yield, the duration, which rung is maturing next), the maturity and reinvestment decision letter (the one that arrives when a bond matures and the client needs to decide what to do next), and the interest rate environment update. The maturity letter is the most important and the most neglected — advisors who don't communicate at maturity force clients to make a decision they feel unequipped for, which leads to the worst possible outcome: the client calls their bank and parks the money in a savings account.

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