Wealth Management

JUNE 10, 2025

RIA Edge Podcast: Schwab’s Jalina Kerr on How Resilient RIAs Can Turn Market Volatility Into Growth RIA Edge Podcast: Schwab’s Jalina Kerr on How Resilient RIAs Can Turn Market Volatility Into Growth Jalina Kerr of Charles Schwab shares how the most adaptive firms are expanding beyond portfolio management, into areas like estate and tax planning.

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 3, 2025

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how Nina's assessment categorizes clients into one of six different personality types (for example, "dream chaser" or "safety seeker"), which helps her and her team learn how her clients are likely to respond to different planning scenarios and recommendations, how Nina pairs the money personality assessment (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 3, 2025

This month's edition kicks off with the news that Morningstar Office will be shutting down in early 2026 as a part of Morningstar's ongoing effort to refocus on its core investment data and analytics business – forcing advisors currently using the tool to switch (which might be a net positive for many of those advisors who have long complained (..)

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Wealth Management

JUNE 20, 2025

Sponsored Content Open Finance in Action: How Data Connectivity Drives Advisory Value Open Finance in Action: How Data Connectivity Drives Advisory Value May 20, 2025 dollars markets private markets investing Alternative Investments Why Advisors Can’t Ignore the Private Markets Revolution Why Advisors Can’t Ignore the Private Markets Revolution by (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 6, 2025

FINNY AI, an AI-powered prospecting tool, has raised $4.2

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Wealth Management

JUNE 20, 2025

Davis Janowski , Senior Technology Editor, WealthManagement.com June 20, 2025 5 Min Read Dr. Naomi Win, a behavioral finance analyst at Orion, gave a presentation entitled, “Aligning Lives and Portfolios: Meeting the Moment for Modern Investors” at Wealth Management EDGE. Given the title, I was at first worried, but her talk was fascinating.

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Larry is the Chairman of Measured Risk Portfolios, an RIA based in San Diego, California, that oversees $350 million in assets under management for a combination of internal retail clients and external financial advisor clients. Welcome everyone! Welcome to the 411th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast !

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Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Additionally, private funds can employ leverage, short selling, derivative strategies, and other methods to further manage the portfolio's risk and return characteristics. generally those with over $200,000 of income or $1 million in net worth) are allowed to invest in private funds.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 12, 2025

John Davi, CEO and founder, Astoria Portfolio Advisors, encouraged advisors to use passive strategies in areas that can’t be beat. Small-cap equities and emerging markets, however, are areas where active management makes sense, she said. She’s also a big believer of active in real estate and preferred securities.

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 15, 2024

What's unique about Mark, though, is how he uses a liability-driven-investing approach to build retirement portfolios and manage sequence of return risk, with a particular focus on using closed end bond funds to generate income needed to cover his client's expenses during the early (and most financially dangerous) years of retirement.

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Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The Marketing Rule also requires performance results to be presented consistently over 1-, 5-, and 10-year time periods (or the time period the portfolio has existed, if shorter than a particular prescribed period) preventing advisers from cherry-picking time periods that would make their returns appear more favorable.

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 23, 2024

However, over the years, the 1% AUM fee has faced criticism from those who argue that it reduces the value of a portfolio by more than the advisor's guidance adds. Comparing expenses to what they could have been worth if saved in a portfolio can be misleading – because from that perspective, every expense seems unfavorable!

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 6, 2023

From there, we have several articles on retirement planning: Why an individual’s portfolio of relationships could be just as important as their investment portfolio when it comes to happiness in retirement. Why ‘failure’ scenarios in Monte Carlo simulations are very different than plane crashes.

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 4, 2023

And when it comes to retirement planning, one popular technique is the use of ‘guardrails’, which set an initial monthly withdrawal rate that can be later adjusted as the size of the client’s portfolio changes. If the portfolio balance declines due to excess distributions (e.g.,

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Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

What's unique about Eric, though, is how he has chosen not to utilize the investment expertise he's built throughout his career to gather individual clients and manage their portfolios as a 'traditional' financial advisor with investment expertise, but instead to really stay focused on being an "investment nerd" by landing his current role as a partner (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 4, 2024

SEI invests $10M into TIFIN to support its development of new AI tools for wealth management, in a model that could both help SEI navigate the infamous "Innovator's Dilemma" of being a large incumbent trying to innovate, and could represent a model that helps to fund more early- and mid-stage AdvisorTech startups (especially as the VC/PE funding environment (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 2, 2022

What’s unique about Matthew, though, is how he differentiates his firm by offering his high-net-worth clients opportunities to diversify their investment portfolios by syndicating private real estate partnerships that directly purchase individual multi-unit rental properties.

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 29, 2025

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how Gideon shaped his firm's staffing to have a higher ratio of advisors to operations staff to serve clients on the Wealth Builder side (given the often extensive planning needs of mid-career professionals) compared to the firm's retired clients (whose plans often stay relatively stable but who need regular (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What's unique about Anh, though, is how, as a solo advisor, she differentiates her firm by leveraging the combination of a high-touch concierge approach to client service with a unique investment management approach through the use of very carefully chosen structured notes to differentiate her portfolio design from other advisors.

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Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This month's edition kicks off with the news that the retail brokerage platform Robinhood is acquiring RIA custodian TradePMR, which appears to be less about Robinhood wanting to compete with the likes of Schwab and Fidelity in the custodial space and more about keeping the assets of its wealthier customers "on-platform" by giving them referrals to (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

MAY 8, 2024

step when onboarding a new client, as making any sort of recommendation is impossible without first understanding how comfortable clients may be when their portfolios inevitably experience volatility. Measuring a client's tolerance for risk is an essential (and required!)

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Welcome to the October 2023 issue of the Latest News in Financial #AdvisorTech – where we look at the big news, announcements, and underlying trends and developments that are emerging in the world of technology solutions for financial advisors!

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 9, 2024

We also talk about Kimberly's journey of trying every "Food Group" in the industry (all the different industry channels where you can work as an advisor) before starting an independent practice with her now-ex-husband , the way that Kimberly and her ex-husband grew the practice but each focusing on their individual strengths (where he drove marketing (..)

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The Big Picture

MAY 20, 2025

How did that background help when it comes to modeling portfolios or applying those methods of statistical analysis to investing? So that’s when I really studied deeply the research why what I’d been doing was working more about when it might not and writing a business plan for Bridgeway. It’s our size.

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 25, 2024

In this episode, we talk in-depth about Chris's efficient planning process, including how he works through clients' financial plans collaboratively during their annual meetings and sends them a final copy afterward (instead of conducting a lot of time-intensive plan preparation in advance), how Chris used to do in-depth cash flow analyses with his (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

robo-managed portfolios) at a lower fee. At a high level, the challenge of serving next-generation clients is that, although they may not be able to afford higher fees, their financial needs are just as complex – if not more so – than those of retired clients.

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Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

And be certain to read to the end, where we have provided an update to our popular “Financial AdvisorTech Solutions Map” (and also added the changes to our AdvisorTech Directory) as well!

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 29, 2024

In the last 10 years, coinciding with the rise of robo-advisor technology that makes it possible to streamline and automate much of the process of investment management, advisors have leveraged the decreasing amount of time it takes to manage client portfolios by providing more and deeper planning for their clients – highlighted by the fact that, (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

MAY 1, 2023

only' checking client portfolios for tax-loss harvesting every other day, after having advertised daily checks) – a first for the SEC in scrutinizing an RIA not for failing to execute its investment promises to clients, but for failing to execute tax-loss harvesting promises instead.

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

A common service model for many financial advisory firms is to schedule annual client meetings throughout the year where the advisor meets with each client in the month they started working with the firm, and conducts a comprehensive review of all planning topics for the client.

Financial Planning 244

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 10, 2023

Gary Siperstein, Jason's father, had built a successful investment management firm exclusively focused on managing portfolios of small-cap value stocks.

Financial Planning 246

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 12, 2024

Otherwise, if the advisor doesn't account for the client's stated risk tolerance when making the recommendation (or doesn't bother to assess their risk tolerance to begin with), and the portfolio declines with the client incurring losses as a result, the advisor could be required by a jury or arbitrator to pay back the client for those losses.

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 21, 2023

Such individuals are required to submit both holdings reports (within 10 days of first being deemed an access person and at least once in each 12-month period) as well as transaction reports (within 30 days of the end of each calendar quarter) for reportable securities that they or immediate family members beneficially own.

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 7, 2024

From there, the latest highlights also feature a number of other interesting advisor technology announcements, including: VRGL has announced a new venture capital funding round to continue building out its capabilities to extract data from prospects' investment statements and automatically generate investment proposals – which while having proven (..)

Clients 246

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We also talk about why Brett personally only offers financial planning on an hourly basis and leaves asset management to the other advisors of his RIA (so that he can have the flexibility to teach his courses while still gaining experience and knowledge as a practicing advisor), why Brett structures his firm as almost a platform for advisors, where, (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 3, 2023

From there, the latest highlights also feature a number of other interesting advisor technology announcements, including: All-in-one software platform Blueleaf has launched a new “aggregation-as-a-service” solution, promising better client data aggregation capabilities than existing solutions by automating the process of weaving multiple (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

MAY 2, 2023

We also talk about why despite being a CFA charterholder Jake outsources investment management to First Ascent – for which clients pay an entirely separate additional fee – because it both allows him to simplify compliance to not manage investments in-house, and takes away the cost pressure of having to hire a separate employee to just (..)

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