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The Power of the Midyear Gut Check

Wealth Management

Reassess Your Team’s Role Your team is one of your most critical assets—and often one of the most overlooked areas in a mid-year evaluation. If you find more friction than momentum, it may be time to rethink what’s possible — not to chase change, but to ensure you’re set up to thrive.

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March Madness: Final Four Investing Bracket 2025

Dear Mr. Market

We break down and assign each of the four regions with an asset class and then pick teams (stocks) that we think have the best chance at doing well relative to others. Historically, this bracket has been dominated by the tech sector, but after years of outsized gains, big tech valuations are stretched.

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Transcript: Jonathan Clements

The Big Picture

I even went on advertising calls with the advertising director. And suddenly you could buy index funds that cover all of the major asset classes. But as a 19-year-old, I was able to not only get involved in writing stories, but also I was involved in the pay stop of the paper for people who remember what pay stop was.

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401(k) Record Keepers Facing Existential Moment

Wealth Management

trillion and 121 million participant accounts along part of the $37 trillion overall in retirement assets, the pressure is causing many record keepers to dig deep and, for many, reinvent themselves or face exiting the market before their valuations drop even further just as it did for active asset managers years ago.

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Transcript: Lisa Shalett, CIO Morgan Stanley

The Big Picture

She was CIO at Merrill Lynch Asset Management, and now CIO at both Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and runs their asset allocation models and their outsourced chief investment officer models. ’cause the asset management business of Sanford Bernstein, as everyone I think knows, was a deep value shop. Are they institutions?

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Transcript: Richard Bernstein, CEO / CIO of RBA

The Big Picture

Just an incredibly storied career who has managed to put together such a straightforward and intelligent way to approach asset management. Alright, Barry Ritholtz : So you end up at what could be my favorite advertisement, which was the EF Hutton ads. Rich Bernstein Rockstar, former Chief strategist at Merrill Lynch. Rich Bernstein.

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Diversification is SO Back

Wealth Management

Prior to attending social gatherings, I often prepare by thinking of some smart, exciting and even sexy responses – like talking about valuation metrics and how company ABC is isolated from tariffs and that if it reaches $50 it’s going to break through to $75.