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RIA Edge Podcast: Schwab’s Jalina Kerr on How Resilient RIAs Can Turn Market Volatility Into Growth

Wealth Management

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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#FA Success Ep 350: The RIA Custodian As The All-In-One Investment Operating System Of The Future, With Jason Wenk

Nerd's Eye View

Jason is the CEO of Altruist, a relatively new RIA custodian that has quickly grown to serve more than 3,500 advisory firms across the country, making it the 4th-largest independent RIA custodian by firm count.

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Top 10 Industries that Produced the Most Billionaires – Is Yours on the List?

Trade Brains

Even in 2025, many of the world’s richest people are portfolio managers, stock traders, or financial firm founders. With its potential to grow by any number worldwide, coupled with heavy margins on profit and potential early access to high-paying deals, finance is a natural billionaire-generator.

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

The Big Picture

We do discretionary macro trading, which is typically a portfolio manager — and we have some number of portfolio managers, 15 or 18 different portfolio managers that independently manage a book of, you know, risk assets. How does this impact global trade and other economic factors?

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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

The Big Picture

All of their portfolio managers not only are substantial investors in each of their funds, but they do a disclosure year that shows each manager by name and how much money they have invested in their own fund. A bachelor’s in economics from Northwestern and then an MBA from University of Chicago. Was that the plan?

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Transcript: Jeffrey Becker, Jennison Associates Chair/CEO

The Big Picture

You get a bachelor’s in economics from Colgate and then an MBA in finance from NYU Stern. I was an economics and English major. So our analysts and our firm are as important as our portfolio managers. 00:24:18 It’s not necessarily as track to portfolio management. I was a liberal arts major.

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Transcript: Maria Vassalou

The Big Picture

Maria Vassalou has a fascinating history and background, London School of Economics to Columbia School of Business, where she actually was a professor for over a decade, and started consulting to the hedge fund and financial services industry. And that led her to various jobs at Wasserstein Perella McKinsey’s Asset Management Group.

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