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Helping you expand and deepen your client relationships through education, practice efficiency, and outreach events.

Helping you expand and deepen your client relationships through education, practice efficiency, and outreach events.

Financial professionals who remain focused solely on providing financial guidance fall short of clients' expectations, because providing financial guidance is now the bare minimum. For financial professionals who want to differentiate their practice by adapting to the changing needs and expectations of clients—in other words, to focus on the human side of investing—we can help.

Hartford Funds' Applied Insights team translates the expertise of the psychologists, physiologists, professors, and practice-management experts we partner with into practical, actionable ideas and tools to make sense of a rapidly evolving market and demographic landscape.

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John Diehl, Senior Vice President
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Meet Our Team
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John Diehl

Senior Vice President

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Julie L. Genjac

Vice President

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Michael Lynch

Managing Director

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Bill McManus

Vice President

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Ryan Sullivan

Vice President

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Thomas Barrett, Ill

Managing Director

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Brian Briggs

Managing Director

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Amanda Stahl

Managing Director

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Dennis Scanlan

Managing Director

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Our Network of Experts

Joe Coughlin, Ph.D.
Director, MIT AgeLab
Author, The Longevity Economy

Kathleen Burns Kingsbury
Wealth Psychology Expert
Author, Breaking Money Silence

Marc Milstein, Ph.D.
Neuroscience Researcher
Author, The Age-Proof Brain

 

Libby Greiwe
The Efficient Advisor LLC
Podcast host, The Efficient Advisor: Tactical Business Advice for Financial Planners

Nancy Schlossberg, EdD
Professor Emerita University of Maryland
Author, Revitalizing Retirement: Reshaping Your Identity

Dr. Linda Babcock, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita, Carnegie Mellon University
Behavioral Economist & Author

Stephen Boswell
President, Oechsli 
Author, Best Practices of Elite Advisors

Robert Laura
Retirement Activist 
Author, The Naked Retirement

Brian Margolis
Practice-Management Expert
Founder, Productivity Giant
Author, The Index Card Business Plan

Jennifer Shannon, LMFT
Cognitive Behavioral Therapist
Author, Don't Feed the Monkey Mind

Erika Wasserman, CFT
Certified Financial Therapist
Author, Conversations with Your Financial Therapist

Just as the wealth and investment management business has largely become commoditized in the eyes of clients, so too has the fund manager space in the eyes of financial professionals. I really appreciate how Hartford Funds creatively adds value to the financial professional relationship while genuinely differentiating your role as a partner.

—Managing Partner, $230M RIA Firm

 

 

John Diehl is a registered representative of Hartford Funds Distributors, LLC. Check the background of this firm/individual on FINRA's BrokerCheck.
Julie L. Genjac is a registered representative of Hartford Funds Distributors, LLC. Check the background of this firm/individual on FINRA's BrokerCheck.
Mike Lynch is a registered representative of Hartford Funds Distributors, LLC. Check the background of this firm/individual on FINRA's BrokerCheck.
Bill McManus is a registered representative of Hartford Funds Distributors, LLC. Check the background of this firm/individual on FINRA's BrokerCheck.
Ryan Sullivan is a registered representative of Hartford Funds Distributors, LLC. Check the background of this firm/individual on FINRA's BrokerCheck.
Thomas Barrett, III is a registered representative of Hartford Funds Distributors, LLC. Check the background of this firm/individual on FINRA's BrokerCheck.
Dennis Scanlan is a registered representative of Hartford Funds Distributors, LLC. Check the background of this firm/individual on FINRA's BrokerCheck.

The views and opinions of the Network of Experts are those of the individuals, who are not affiliated with Hartford Funds. The information should not be construed as investment advice or a recommendation of any product or service nor should it be relied upon to, replace the advice of an investor’s own legal, tax and financial professionals.

Hartford Mutual Funds may or may not be invested in the companies referenced herein; however, no particular endorsement of any product or service is being made. 

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