Darrow Wealth Management

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

A fiduciary advisor is a financial professional who is legally obligated to act in the best interest of their clients. A fiduciary must always prioritize their clients’ needs above their own interests and mitigate or disclose any conflicts of interest that may arise. What is a fiduciary advisor? Not all advisors are fiduciaries.

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Fortune Financial

JANUARY 28, 2025

The housing bubble and subsequent bust that was largely responsible for the 2007 – 2009 financial crisis resulted in depressed housing starts for more than a decade; in fact, from 2008 through 2019, single family housing starts averaged just 660,000, not even 60% of the long-term average.

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Trade Brains

JULY 22, 2025

This plan targets clients holding major cryptocurrencies. Clients could use these assets as loan security. Client holdings would act as collateral. Clients avoid triggering capital gains taxes through sales. JPMorgan aims to meet evolving client needs. Many clients hold substantial crypto wealth.

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The Big Picture

JULY 1, 2025

There’s interesting clients, there’s quite a lot of us partners there. I mean, I was in Zurich, but I was serving a lot of the European clients. But then it’s up to the client to implement it. So Bain does a lot of due diligence for private equity clients. Why don’t you go to Zurich, for example?

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MAY 19, 2025

From 2000 to 2019, Swensen outperformed 14 times. Portfolio 2 uses a bond proxy with client/personal holding Merger Fund. And plugging into Testfol.io which goes back further and comparing it to VBAIX. Swensen did better over the course of the backtest with a little more volatility and bigger drawdowns.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 23, 2025

Steve Laipply : Yeah, so I, I think that group, the idea was to work with institutional clients to really help them manage risk, right? But, 00:51:57 [Speaker Changed] And and what about, you know, we always have clients who are looking into their retirement, you know, I just want X dollars and not worry about taxes.

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Steve Sanduski

JANUARY 1, 2025

With everything going on, I needed to free up time, so I decided to shed the Good to Know newsletter (hopefully, just temporarily) and focus on my client work and travel. Share it with your family, friends, and even your clients. Past 3 Words Here are my 3 words and their associated blog posts from previous years.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MARCH 22, 2025

For a ten year run ending Jan 1, 2019 though it compounded at over 6% annually plus that dividend yield on top and a very low beta. I also owned the name for a couple of more risk tolerant clients. To me, that was a great mix of attributes. At some point along the way I lost faith in China from the top down and sold it.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

APRIL 27, 2025

From March 9, 2009 through December 31, 2019 equities were up more than 498% and bonds returned 54% while cash alternatives realized little return. MERIX is a client and personal holding. Um ok, I mean who wouldn't want that? I excluded it for being a shock caused from outside the world of capital markets and economics.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 11, 2025

Trusts Created Martin Griffin died on July 9, 2019, survived by his spouse, Maria Creel. In this role, he advises clients on all aspects of estate & gift tax planning, asset titling, family governance, philanthropy and business succession strategies. On July 30, 2018, Martin also created the MCC Irrevocable Trust (MCC Trust).

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Wealth Management

JULY 24, 2025

RIAs have been expressing interest in creating their own ETFs for the past five years, noted Mike Venuto, chief investment officer at Tidal Financial Group, a white label ETF solutions platform whose clients include Nicholas Wealth, NestYield and Family Dynasty Advisors. Concept of digital social marketing.

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Dear Mr. Market

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Many clients don’t realize there is a mandatory split of assets between the “A” (Survivor’s Trust) and “B” (Family or Bypass Trust) until a spouse passes away. We do this best through the Legacy Program we began offering in 2019. Our Legacy Program currently serves 120 client families on an ongoing basis. Submit a form.

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Trade Brains

JULY 7, 2025

Pixxel – Space Tech (Established 2019). With $95M+ raised, clients across climate, agriculture, and defence, and expanding global contracts, Pixxel is India’s most audacious bet on commercial space-tech. BluSmart – EV Ride-Hailing (Established 2019).

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The Big Picture

JUNE 2, 2025

It felt like an entrepreneurial opportunity to build something, made a lot of friends there, enjoyed the work, really enjoyed my clients, and the opportunity to help a bunch of great leaders improve the performance of their organizations. And we were serving clients in that geography. And the combination just worked great for me.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

This week, we speak with Elizabeth Burton , managing director and client investment strategist at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. She advises institutional clients on investment strategies and portfolio objectives, working alongside global client advisers and product strategists across public and private markets.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Voleon, which manages $10 billion in client assets, has achieved great success applying these technologies to investing. Be sure to check out our Masters in Business next week with Elizabeth Burton , Managing Director and Client Investment Strategist at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Also in industry news this week: A survey indicates that while financial advisors remain the most trusted source of financial advice, they might increasingly encounter client questions and ideas that originated from social media Following the transition of advisors and clients from TD Ameritrade and amid competition from competing RIA custodians, Charles (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 21, 2023

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" - this week's edition kicks off with the news that in a settlement with the SEC, robo-advisor platform Betterment agreed to pay a $9 million penalty for allegedly misstating the frequency that its automated tax-loss harvesting system was scanning some client accounts between (..)

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The Big Picture

JULY 27, 2022

Consider these columns going back to 2013 pointing out the foolishness of tax-payer subsidized corporate welfare queens (2013), and why median wages were rising ( 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2018 , 2019 ). Consider the chart up top (it’s from an RWM client-only quarterly call). Then came the pandemic, and a huge federal worker subsidy.

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 25, 2023

There is a general understanding that investment advisers have a fiduciary relationship with their clients – in other words, that they are required to act in the client's best interests. These 3 components in practice make up a core part of the adviser's fiduciary duty to their clients.

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 28, 2023

The announcement of the merger between Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade in November 2019 kicked off a marathon of preparation for advisory firms to transition their clients on the TD Ameritrade custodial platform to Schwab. Additionally, any open trade orders (e.g., Read More.

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 10, 2024

client retention rates remaining robust, and at least a bit of client referral growth trickling in. It quickly became a perennial favorite on Nerd's Eye View, and so I've updated it every year, with new lists of books in 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019 , 2020 , 2021 , 2022 , and a fresh round last year in 2023.

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Financial Symmetry

AUGUST 1, 2022

Financial Symmetry is thrilled to promote Sam Knighton to Client Service Associate. Sam joined our team in 2019 as our Administrative Assistant and after maternity leave transitioned into a virtual admin role in 2021. The post FSI Promotes Sam Knighton to Client Service Associate appeared first on Financial Symmetry, Inc.

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Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT)

JULY 26, 2022

By Antoinette Tuscano You can tell clients you’re a caring person who wants to help others, and they might believe you. In 2017, in her holiday newsletter to clients, Katherine told them about Blessing Bags. In 2018, one of her clients used the idea as a team-building event at her company.

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 12, 2023

Firms that were returning to the office have done so, those that are staying remote are remaining as such, and either way most advisory firms have figured out how to continue to service and retain clients, and are slowly adapting to finding new (or reinvigorating old) paths to grow at least slowly once again.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 21, 2023

Direct indexing for clients who need to offset large capital gains; Goaltender to manage emotional errors; Milestone rewards to incentivize good behavior through lower fees. Previously : Winner Takes All Applies to Stocks, Too (August 1, 2019) Wasn’t Passive Supposed to Blow Up During the Next Crash?

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 10, 2024

So, although the entire 227-year span of McQuarrie's analysis from 1793 to 2019 was weakly supportive of Siegel's conclusions, there were subperiods where bonds actually outperformed stocks, leading McQuarrie to conclude that there was no consistent relationship between asset outperformance and length of holding period to which values must revert.

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The Big Picture

MAY 28, 2023

In 2019 you would have been considered a quack if you suggested that the best way to get rid of a virus is to spread the virus. The commingling of these funds put client assets at risk by obscuring their whereabouts. But that became mainstream and influenced politicians at the highest levels. ( regulators said. regulators said.

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The Big Picture

JULY 20, 2023

My obvious bias is that my advisory firm charges clients to create financial plans and manage their assets. It is the advisor’s job to prevent clients from engaging in the kind of bad investment behavior that drawdowns often cause; I cannot see how trading that for >30% of the upside makes any sense. Chart after the jump ).

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BlueMind

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Category: Client Relations. The demands of high-net-worth clients are no small feat and can be challenging and daunting to deal with, to say the least. However, acquiring and retaining an HNW client is every financial advisor’s dream. Related: Effective Strategies To Deal With Difficult Clients.

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Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 26, 2022

This year has been challenging for many financial advisors as they help their clients (and their own firms!) navigate a volatile market environment (in both stocks and bonds – oof!) and inflation levels not seen in several decades. by the next day’s, week’s, and month’s worth of content that comes along.

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Nationwide Financial

JUNE 9, 2023

Key Takeaways: The last two years have been marked by the highest inflation rates in decades; your clients saving for retirement can use this to their advantage through short-term investments, tax deferral, and insurance products offering better benefits. Your clients can mitigate interest rate risk simply by holding them to maturity.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 5, 2023

We only have a few slots left to meet with prospective clients — if you would like to learn more about being a client of Ritholtz Wealth Management, this is your chance. Meet my partners Joshg Brown, Kris Venne, and our new firm president Jay Tini, along with eight superstar financial planners and client service reps into town.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2024

Be sure to check out our Masters in Business next week with Heather Brilliant , CEO since 2019 of publicly traded Diamond Hill (DHIL). The firm manages $26B in client assets via a bottoms-up stock selection. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. Previously, she was CEO at First State Investments.

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Brown Advisory

JULY 14, 2020

31, 2019, our firm managed more than $6 billion* in client assets under various sustainable investment mandates for individuals, families and institutions. In 2019, we expanded our ESG research team to five full-time analysts with the addition of Lisa Abraham and Victoria Avara.

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Brown Advisory

JULY 14, 2020

2019 Global Leaders ESG Transparency Report. At Brown Advisory, we are deeply committed to sustainable investing, with the goal of helping clients generate attractive investment returns, align their investments with their values and make a positive impact on society with their capital. Tue, 07/14/2020 - 08:15. Download the Report. .

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Wealthfront

AUGUST 31, 2022

Since we launched the Wealthfront Cash Account back in early 2019, many clients have asked us how we manage to offer a rate that’s so much higher than […]. We all know that when it comes to earning interest on your cash, more is better. But not all financial institutions pay the same rate—not even close.

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