Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 14, 2025

Which, if implemented under the new administration, could provide relief for investment advisers, particularly smaller firms that already have to balance compliance with client service, marketing, and the other duties that go into running a firm.

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Diamond Consultants

MAY 27, 2025

They can make long-term strategic bets whether its investing in AI-driven tools, acquiring talent, or building new service models that benefit advisors and clients alike. Larger firms can spread their costs across a broader base, driving down prices for end clients and increasing efficiency for advisors.

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Trade Brains

JUNE 29, 2025

Segregation of client assets is non-negotiable. Only time will provide the definitive answer. The new Stablecoin Ordinance takes effect August 1st. Issuers referencing the Hong Kong dollar require an HKMA licence. Strict rules mandate full reserve backing. Guaranteed redemption capabilities are essential.

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The Big Picture

JULY 16, 2025

And find the entire musical playlist of all the songs I have used on At the Money on Spotify TRANSCRIPT: Speak to any financial advisor and they’ll tell you one of the biggest challenges they have professionally is getting clients to actually spend their money after decades of working and saving and investing. Definitely.

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The Big Picture

JULY 23, 2025

Full transcript below. ~~~ About this week’s guest: Joey Fishman is a Senior Advisor at Ritholtz Wealth Management (RWM), where he assists clients with managing their stock, options, and equity compensation. So overcoming those things is, is definitely challenging on the employee side. Let’s bring in Joey Fishman.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 4, 2025

Melissa Smith : So I definitely thought that I was gonna work in the public sector when, when I’m recruiting at JP Morgan I always, you know, get the question sort of how did, how did you get into investment banking? Melissa Smith : Definitely not. What was the original plan? Melissa Smith : For three years.

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Diamond Consultants

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

By our definition, the criteria for qualifying as a Supported RIA is surprisingly simple and boils down to two criteria: RIA Registration Supported RIAs are overseen by the state or the SEC and are distinctly separate from FINRA (though they may have so-called friendly broker dealers attached to them that allow for commissionable business).

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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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Indigo Marketing Agency

MAY 15, 2025

SEO Services for Financial Advisors: 5 Ways to Boost Your Online Visibility and Attract More Clients Of course you have a strategy around SEO services for financial advisors right? Here are a few critical actions every smart SEO strategy for financial advisors should include to boost visibility on the SERPs and attract more clients.

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Wealth Management

JULY 2, 2025

Related: Planning for Older Clients and Those with Disabilities Many GRATs include a so-called “swap” power in which the grantor is permitted to substitute assets of equivalent value with the GRAT. Prior case law in the Southern District of New York (Morales v.

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Indigo Marketing Agency

JUNE 3, 2025

10 Growth Marketing Strategies for Financial Planners in 2025 The new year wipes the slate clean and gives financial planners a fresh opportunity to focus on marketing strategies that attract and retain more clients in less time and with less energy. And new leads and clients keep coming. Case in point, Kevin Brown.

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Diamond Consultants

JUNE 23, 2025

Yet, in recent weeks, we’re hearing from more UBS advisors than ever before who are asking a different kind of question—one rooted in long-term strategy and legacy: Is staying at UBS the right strategic decision—for my future, the future of my clients, and the future of what I’ve built?

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Inside Information

DECEMBER 1, 2024

And that means that AI will only be unlocked when software engineers identify a fairly well-defined use case and ‘train’ AI to do certain repetitive functions within that definition. It can pull out past meeting notes from the CRM when it spots a client meeting on your calendar, which gets you part of the way through the meeting prep process.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JANUARY 8, 2025

First up today, Eric Crittenden who is the manager of personal/client holding Standpoint Multi-Asset Fund (BLNDX/REMIX) sat for a podcast with The Monetary Matters Network. I think of client/personal holding as being simple for example, while the one AQR fund in my ownership universe is definitely complex.

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Midstream Marketing

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Use SEO to help your business get seen and attract new clients. Also, your contact information should be easy to find for potential clients. It is also important to use local SEO methods to connect with nearby clients. This means you can show your ads to the right potential clients. This helps local businesses be noticed.

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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? I mean the cut definitely got pushed out to September, right? By definition if you get a sharp slowdown that nobody saw coming, you probably do see longer term yields coming down.

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Steve Sanduski

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

How advisors — and in some circumstances, their clients — handle transitions between firms. Quotes: Mindy Diamond on advisor nonnegotiables: “A move should never compromise on the most important things you do for clients. But that definitely doesn’t mean that the advisor should move.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 21, 2025

But today, you know, a lot of brokers, you know, whether they’re with the big full service brokerage firms now have advisory accounts that they flog to clients where they can buy ETFs. And one of the common conversations is, I have a client, he’s got millions of dollars invested. We can’t get him to spend money.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JUNE 3, 2025

BTAL is a client and personal holding. As we looked at the other day, technology as represented by client holding IYW tends to go up more than the broad market and it also tends to go down more. The blending accomplishes a sophisticated outcome.

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The Big Picture

MAY 20, 2025

00:02:52 [Speaker Changed] Well, the statistical side definitely comes from my degree and then work as a project manager at MIT. I, I had no idea you were so international in, in the philanthropic sphere, but we’ll definitely circle back to that. Tell us about the mutual funds in ETFs you run on behalf of Bridgeways clients.

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Steve Sanduski

JANUARY 1, 2025

The year started well as my wife and I moved from Wisconsin to Oregon in March of 24 and we definitely shed a substantial amount of stuff to make our cross-country move more manageable. Share it with your family, friends, and even your clients. I even sold my car in Wisconsin so we could drive together to Oregon in one car.

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Discipline Funds

MAY 5, 2025

First, the performance of the stock market and short-term economic data doesn’t give us any definitive understanding of the tariffs. And I’ve had numerous clients reach out to me to say how calm they’ve been specifically because they have such a sound understanding of how their assets match their financial planning needs.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MARCH 4, 2025

I've been in the same place on Bitcoin for many years now which is that there is definitely asymmetric potential so I hold it but it could turn out to be just magic internet money that disappears one day. The Merger Fund is a client and personal holding. BTAL is a client and personal holding.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 9, 2025

Big discussions about the use of AI to improve efficiencies as most record keepers are looking to service more plans without increasing staff, something Ascensus is focused on, according to Anthony Bologna, national sales director, who said clients gave higher satisfaction scores when AI is used to answer questions.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2025

I knew that I wanted to work with clients. And, you know, she had kind of gone to bat very controversially asking the bank to protect clients on, on some of the products that had gone bad. All the clients were getting proprietary Sanford Bernstein asset Management product. So I took the plunge, I quit.

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The Big Picture

JULY 15, 2025

My biggest client turned out to be the Merrill Lynch Investment Strategy Group. Went back and got my MBA, and after a while, without sounding stupid about this, realized I was a, I knew more about this stuff than many of my clients did. But the heart of the firm was still on the private client side for any number of strategic reasons.

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Harness Wealth

MAY 2, 2025

After 2025, the definition of ATI will revert to earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) instead of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA). Estate and gift tax planning Maximize gift tax exemption: Encourage clients to use the currently higher $13.61 million (single) / $27.22 million (single) / $27.22

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Bell Investment Advisors

JUNE 27, 2025

and Global Economies Tariffs — Current Status & Impacts Debt, Inflation, & the “Big, Beautiful Bill” Questions from Clients Bell Investment Advisors Webinar June 2025 From Policy to Portfolio: The Economic Impact of Tariffs Note: This transcript has been edited for clarity and context. Slide 4: U.S. It’s not perfect.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Yeah, Torsten Slok : So at Deutsche Bank I spent essentially all my time on going to clients with sales. But it’s absolutely clear what you’re saying that it was definitely the case and continues to be the case that who is it that is impacted when interest rates are high? They were saying we can begin to cut interest rates.

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The Big Picture

MAY 13, 2025

And given the design of the product and the client need, we’re trying to meet, we look for the best possible active manager to fill that mandate. And it speaks to the clients that we serve and the way we think about product development and, and all of the rest of it. It’s probably down to 22 or 23 now. Really interesting.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 17, 2025

I definitely agree. I think it was Torsten Lock, I think, who put out a note for clients just maybe a week or so ago that said basically three x whatever, you know, if you think that a hundred thousand people are gonna lose their jobs, it’s more like three, it’s it’s three to one, right? That was 30 years ago.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 16, 2025

But we have clients that are on the left and the right. 00:48:24 [Speaker Changed] So yeah, no, you’ve definitely seen this year to date overseas, especially Europe and, and, and even some of the emerging markets start to do much better than they have. And if you can’t suppress the fear, then you probably will die poor.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 25, 2025

As you note, when we spun out, we kept all of our Bear Stearns accounts, continued to work with all their private client service people over there. He goes, well, our, our clients, the, the Riol Wealth Managements of the world could, could use this and it would be amazing for their business. So it was very, very amicable.

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Wealth Management

JULY 17, 2025

Related: Artificial Intelligence in Asset and Wealth Management The 2025 Order didn’t mention the issue of the swap power, so there’s no definitive answer on this point, but it would appear that merely including a swap power isn’t problematic. Concept of digital social marketing.

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Indigo Marketing Agency

JANUARY 16, 2025

10 Growth Marketing Strategies for Financial Planners in 2025 The new year wipes the slate clean and gives financial planners a fresh opportunity to focus on marketing strategies that attract and retain more clients in less time and with less energy. And new leads and clients keep coming. Case in point, Kevin Brown.

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Investing Caffeine

MARCH 3, 2025

Today, in 2025, the current cryptocurrency wave definitely qualifies as another bubble. But depending on an investors time horizon, there is still potential to make significant profits during these frothy investment waves.

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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. You definitely hear it in skilled trades.

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