Nerd's Eye View

JULY 18, 2025

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" – this week's edition kicks off with the news that a recent survey by Vanguard found while only 38% of investors reported considering time savings when signing up to receive financial advice , 76% of clients report saving time from working with an advisor (with a median of two hours per week, or more than 100 hours per year), suggesting that advisors can sell their value not only through the financial and emotional b

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Wealth Management

JULY 18, 2025

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Wealth Management

JULY 11, 2025

Ryan Nauman and Noah Wise discuss the impact of the current uncertain macroeconomic environment on fixed income investments, the advantages of active management, the importance of diversification across the yield curve and geographic regions, and the potential risks and rewards in the fixed income market.

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The Big Picture

JULY 16, 2025

At The Money: The Right Way to Spend Your Money in Retirement (July 16, 2025) One of the biggest challenges of retirement is actually spending your money! After decades of working, saving, and investing, pivoting to spending down your accumulated wealth can be surprisingly difficult. Full transcript below. ~~~ About this week’s guest: Christine Benz is Director of Personal Finance & Retirement Planning at Morningstar; her new book is “ How to Retire: 20 Lessons for a Happy, Successful, and W

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Trade Brains

JULY 13, 2025

The Piotroski Score is a financial tool that assesses a company’s financial strength on a scale of 0 to 9, with higher scores reflecting better performance. Commonly used by value investors, it helps identify financially sound investment opportunities. A lower score suggests weaker financial health and may signal higher investment risk. Financially strong stocks represent companies with solid financial fundamentals, including consistent revenue, profits, healthy cash flow, and strong market posi

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Calculated Risk

JULY 16, 2025

Fed's Beige Book Economic activity increased slightly from late May through early July. Five Districts reported slight or modest gains, five had flat activity, and the remaining two Districts noted modest declines in activity. That represented an improvement over the previous report, in which half of Districts reported at least slight declines in activity.

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Wealth Management

JULY 14, 2025

Ryan Nauman and Miguel Sosa discuss the increased popularity of private credit post-Global Financial Crisis, how interval funds match well with private credit due to liquidity needs, and why private credit is attractive to both investors and issuers

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Financial Symmetry

JULY 15, 2025

Tax season may feel far off, but with sweeping legislative changes just passed, proactive financial planning starts now. In this episode, we’re sharing our accessible, in-depth breakdown of the new Big Beautiful Bill, highlighting ten key tax provisions that every taxpayer should understand. 1. Individual and Joint Tax Rates Extended The tax rates most Americans have grown accustomed to since 2018 will be sticking around “permanently,” or at least as permanent as tax law ever gets!

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Trade Brains

JULY 16, 2025

On Wednesday, the Nifty 50 opened flat at 25,196.60 and closed slightly higher at 25,212.05, gaining 16.25 points or 0.06%. The Sensex also edged up by 63.57 points to end at 82,634.48. Despite the modest gains, investor sentiment remained cautious due to a weak start to the earnings season and mixed global cues, leading to ongoing market volatility.

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Calculated Risk

JULY 14, 2025

From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Just a Hair Higher Ahead of Important Inflation Report Today's movement in mortgage rates, in and of itself, is barely worth mentioning. The average lender remains close enough to Friday's levels but is technically just a hair higher. That fact is offset by the counterpoint that most of the past two months saw higher rates.

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Speaker: Victor C. Barnes, CPA, MBA

In the climb from contributor to leader, the rules quietly change. If you’re aiming for the summit, the air gets thinner—and what got you here won’t be enough to get you to the top (a concept first popularized by Marshall Goldsmith in his book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There ). What made you successful early in your finance career—technical accuracy, sharp analysis, flawless execution—won’t be what carries you to the next level.

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Harness Wealth

JULY 14, 2025

Alternative investments such as private equity, cryptocurrencies, and collectibles now represent a significant part of the investment arena, in particular to high-income individuals. These alternative investments can offer distinct advantages in the shape of portfolio diversification and the potential for higher returns, but they can come with equally distinct tax complications that need to be carefully planned for.

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Wealth Management

JULY 14, 2025

New law increases transfer tax exemptions, raises SALT deduction cap, preserves TCJA rates, expands QSBS benefits and continues QBI deduction.

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Trade Brains

JULY 11, 2025

Synopsis- Mutual funds offer diversification, growth potential, and long-term wealth creation. Explore the top 10 mutual funds that delivered the highest SIP and lump sum returns over the last 10 years. When you invest through SIPs, you put in money every month. Each month, the money invested purchases funds at different prices. XIRR depicts the average yearly profit percentage earned on invested money over time.

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Calculated Risk

JULY 11, 2025

From Nick Villa at Moody's The Office Sector’s Double Whammy The ongoing challenges affecting the office sector have not only resulted in deteriorating space market fundamentals—evidenced by the record-high national office vacancy rate in the second quarter of 2025—but have also had a direct negative impact on capital market activities, including the performance of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS).

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Speaker: Kim Beynon, CPA, CGMA, PMP

The most overlooked, yet most critical, element of transformation is preparing people for change. Automation and AI aren't just technical upgrades, they’re cultural shifts which can challenge identities. That’s why change management isn’t a side project—it’s the foundation. In finance, where precision and process rule, navigating change can feel especially disruptive.

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International College of Financial Planning

JULY 11, 2025

The stock market is not a machine of certainty; it’s a reflection of collective human psychology in motion. Every peak and trough, every rally and correction, carries within it a story of how investors feel and react, often more than how they think. Behavioural finance bridges the gap between rational theory and real-world decision making. It studies how people – despite data, logic, and expert advice – continue to make emotionally charged choices that often hurt their long-term goal

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Wealth Management

JULY 16, 2025

Explore the performance, volatility and diversification benefits of private and public infrastructure investments for wealth managers and financial advisors.

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 11, 2025

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" - this week's edition kicks off with the news that, amidst the growing number of RIAs it supervises, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is moving ahead with a potential plan to raise the $100 million regulatory assets under management threshold for SEC registration, with the regulator having talks with some state securities regulators (which would bear an increasing regulatory burden if the threshold were lifted

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Trade Brains

JULY 15, 2025

Synopsis- Multi Asset Allocation Funds offer diversified investment in equity, debt and commodities especially gold,making them balanced investment in the volatile markets. These funds help in reducing risk and maintaining stable gains. In this article, we rank the best performing Multi-Asset Allocation Funds in 2025 based on 3 year SIP XIRR performance and other key metrics. 1.

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Calculated Risk

JULY 14, 2025

Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Will House Prices Decline Nationally in 2025? A brief excerpt: Most forecasts for 2025 were for U.S. house prices to increase modestly in the 3% to 4% range. My early view was “mostly flat prices nationally in 2025” with some areas seeing price declines. I didn’t expect either a crash in prices or a surge in prices.

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Steve Sanduski

JULY 15, 2025

Guest: Edward Fishman, Senior Research Scholar in the Faculty of International and Public Affairs; Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.  Edward is the author of a new book called Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare. In a nutshell: What if the most powerful weapon of the 21st century isn’t a missile, but a few entries in a computer?

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Wealth Management

JULY 17, 2025

Joel Guth shares how stepping out from under the Hightower umbrella to become a fully independent RIA opened up a new world of opportunity for his firm Gryphon Financial Partners.

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Advisor Perspectives

JULY 14, 2025

Banks are looking to sell $2.25 billion of term loans and $2 billion equivalent of bonds for Boots, to help finance its acquisition by US private equity firm Sycamore Partners, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Speaker: Claire Grosjean, Global Finance & Operations Executive

Finance teams are drowning in data—but is it actually helping them spend smarter? Without the right approach, excess spending, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities continue to drain profitability. While analytics offers powerful insights, financial intelligence requires more than just numbers—it takes the right blend of automation, strategy, and human expertise.

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 14, 2025

For a financial advisor and their new client, the first year working together can be a particularly intense period, typically involving multiple in-person or virtual meetings. After this first year, though, the number of scheduled meetings typically declines, often including only one or two formal meetings per year to check on progress toward financial goals and answer questions.

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Calculated Risk

JULY 16, 2025

Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Thursday: • At 8:30 AM ET, The initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. The consensus is for initial claims to increase to 235 thousand from 233 thousand last week. • Also at 8:30 AM, Retail sales for June is scheduled to be released. The consensus is for a 0.2% increase in retail sales. • Also at 8:30 AM, the Philly Fed manufacturing survey for July.

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JULY 15, 2025

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Wealth Management

JULY 11, 2025

Zeplyn's Era Jain details how the firm builds AI-native workflows that free up advisors’ time while structuring human conversations into powerful, actionable data.

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Trade Brains

JULY 18, 2025

Synopsis- A major shift just hit the U.S. crypto world. The House of Representatives decisively passed the GENIUS Act yesterday. As a result, the first significant federal crypto regulation now advances. President Donald Trump eagerly awaits the bill. He is expected to sign it soon. This victory marks a stunning turnaround for the industry. Previously, crypto firms faced regulatory resistance.

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 16, 2025

After years of anxiety over the scheduled sunset of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) at the end of 2025, the widely anticipated legislation extending and replacing TCJA – also known as the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (OBBBA) – was signed into law on July 4, 2025. At its core, OBBBA makes permanent many of the provisions of the original TCJA, including TCJA's tax brackets, increased standard deduction, Section 199A deduction for Qualified Business Income (QBI), and increased Child Ta

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Calculated Risk

JULY 12, 2025

The key reports this week are June CPI, Retail Sales and Housing Starts. For manufacturing, the June Industrial Production report and the July New York and Philly Fed manufacturing surveys will be released. -- Monday, July 14th -- No major economic releases scheduled. -- Tuesday, July 15th -- 8:30 AM: The Consumer Price Index for June from the BLS. The consensus is for a 0.3% increase in CPI, and a 0.3% increase in core CPI.

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Advisor Perspectives

JULY 16, 2025

Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s stock traders posted the largest revenue haul in Wall Street history, as volatility sparked by the Trump administration’s trade war spurred a second straight record quarter for the unit.

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Speaker: Cheryl J. Muldrew-McMurtry

Remote finance teams are rewriting how the back-office runs—and attackers are taking notes. Disconnected workflows, process blind spots, and rising cyber threats have become more than just “growing pains”. They’re now liabilities. The challenge isn’t just team distribution, but building resilient systems that protect accuracy, control, and speed across every transaction and touchpoint.

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