Diamond Consultants

JUNE 1, 2023

Here are 3 valuation scenarios to address that curiosity. Focus Financial Partners, the largest investor in the independent space, is being taken private at a $7B valuation. Prolific RIA acquirer CI Financial recently monetized a stake in their business at a $5B valuation. Those are some eye-popping numbers.

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Diamond Consultants

MAY 3, 2022

By our count in 2021 alone some 19 teams managing over $88B in assets transitioned from private banks. In almost every instance of a move by a private banker, there is a significant amount of assets that will need to be left behind. Be realistic about the valuation of your business. Be realistic about the strength of your team.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 24, 2022

They advise or directly manage about $250 billion in flying assets. BLS recruits, just like all other organizations, recruits at college campuses. RITHOLTZ: So how do you find your way from economist to analyst to asset manager? RITHOLTZ: You said, I know, I want to run assets. How did that transition happen?

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

He is the Chief Investment Officer of Asset and Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. trillion in assets under supervision. JULIAN SALISBURY, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER OF ASSET AND WEALTH MANAGEMENT, GOLDMAN SACHS: Thanks, Barry. And I think you will also.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

And your bio explains how you were recruited to Vanguard. So there’s been a big push for folks to get the appropriate level of asset allocation in a highly diversified, low cost way. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk about that. I thought that was a really interesting story. Tell us a little bit about what brought you to Vanguard.

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The Big Picture

JULY 26, 2022

All-in, you’re $8 billion in assets totally. It might be a management team that wants to retire, or exit. It’s always the transaction that the seller wants to do is they want to retire. I mean, I don’t — RITHOLTZ: So this is really devious recruitment. WEAVER: And you can overpay for any asset.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven. So I think selecting managers in any asset class has that two pieces.

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