The Big Picture
MARCH 28, 2023
Just back from California and Arizona, and still digging out. In the meanwhile, check out Nick today : The post All You Need to Know to Build Generational Wealth appeared first on The Big Picture.
The Reformed Broker
MARCH 28, 2023
Final Trades: Berkshire Hathaway, Transocean & Utilities (XLU) from CNBC. The post Clips From Today’s Halftime Report appeared first on The Reformed Broker.
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The Big Picture
MARCH 28, 2023
My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • The Fed’s anti-inflation work is almost done, with an assist from the banking crisis. the economic turmoil created by the collapse of three banks this month and the impairment of a fourth gave it a bit of breathing room in its increasingly unpopular campaign to subdue inflation with a series of sharp interest rate hikes. ( Los Angeles Times ) • Schwab’s $7 Trillion Empire Built on Low Rates Is Showing Cracks : Company faces pressure from bond losses
The Reformed Broker
MARCH 28, 2023
Join Downtown Josh Brown and Michael Batnick for another round of What Are Your Thoughts? On this week’s episode, Josh and Michael discuss the biggest topics in investing and finance, including: ►Lending Shock – Shocks to bank lending standards do not fade away quickly. They persist and cause recessions. ►Are Banks Screwed? – “Since peaking almost exactly one year ago, deposits at all domestic.
Speaker: Nancy Wu, Head of Sales and Customer Success at SkyStem
Business operations are getting increasingly complex, shareholders are demanding more, and your auditors are breathing down your neck like never before. In this high-pressure environment, it’s important to remember that reconciliation activity is your last line of defense against financial fraud and errors. Insisting on a manual process to handle month-end reconciliations is a risky endeavor that places an undue burden on your accounting team.
Nerd's Eye View
MARCH 28, 2023
Welcome back to the 326th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Erica Pauly. Erica is the Founder and Owner of Track That Advisor, a consulting and coaching firm based in Gilbert, Arizona, that helps advisory firms track, and then improve upon, their marketing results. What's unique about Erica, though, is how she built a series of spreadsheet tools to measure the details of each step of her advisory firm’s marketing funnel, from lead generation
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A Wealth of Common Sense
MARCH 28, 2023
The last new all-time high for the S&P 500 was on January 3, 2022. That means it’s been almost 450 days since we’ve experienced new highs in the stock market. That feels like a long time. But based on the history of bear markets, it’s really not all that long. It might be a while until we hit new highs again if we use history as a guide.
Abnormal Returns
MARCH 28, 2023
Markets Investor psychology hasn't changed much in the past 112 years. (behaviouralinvestment.com) How to avoid investment complexity. (morningstar.com) Asset location, 101. (obliviousinvestor.com) Companies Alibaba ($BABA) is splitting into six companies. (cnn.com) Google ($GOOGL) is deprecating some Fitbit social features. (arstechnica.com) Disney ($DIS) has eliminated its metaverse division.
Calculated Risk
MARCH 28, 2023
Freddie Mac reported that the Single-Family serious delinquency rate in February was 0.65%, down from 0.66% January. Freddie's rate is down year-over-year from 0.99% in February 2022. Freddie's serious delinquency rate peaked in February 2010 at 4.20% following the housing bubble and peaked at 3.17% in August 2020 during the pandemic. These are mortgage loans that are "three monthly payments or more past due or in foreclosure".
Wealth Management
MARCH 28, 2023
Among other changes, the association will add a wealth management specialization, with additional content on client management, investment planning and the duty of care.
Speaker: Carolina Aponte - Owner and CEO, Caja Holdings LLC
In today's rapidly changing business environment, building a resilient balance sheet is crucial to the survival of any business. A resilient balance sheet allows a company to withstand financial shocks and adapt to changing market conditions. To achieve this, companies need to focus on key strategies such as maintaining adequate liquidity, managing debt levels, diversifying revenue streams, and prioritizing profitability over growth.
The Irrelevant Investor
MARCH 28, 2023
Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by New York Life: See here for more information on New York Lifes indexIQ ETFs On today’s show, we discuss: Welcome to the superprime banking crisis Here’s what retirement with less than $1M looks like in America The age of AI has begun Attention is all you need (Packy on AI) Housing market update: Demand for mortgages ticks up as rates drop amid banking turmoil .
Wealth Management
MARCH 28, 2023
Full-service hotels in vacation destinations are attracting equity from high-net-worth investors who are joining deals as limited partners.
Clever Girl Finance
MARCH 28, 2023
There’s never been a better time to learn financial literacy basics. With the cost of living and household debts rising, it’s critical to understand how finances work so you’re in control of your cash. Unfortunately, though, financial literacy is lacking in the US. For example, only 57% of adult Americans are financially literate and able to manage their money.
Wealth Management
MARCH 28, 2023
As its multi-custodial strategy bears fruit, Steward Partners has recruited Ensign Wealth Partners from Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network, bringing the firm's total assets with Pershing to over $1 billion.
Speaker: Raul Perez, VP and CFO of Lancaster Leaf
Lancaster Leaf Tobacco Co Inc. is a subsidiary of Universal Corporation, the leading global leaf tobacco supplier. Lancaster Leaf supplies virtually all the major cigar manufacturers in the U.S. with filler, binder, and wrapper, and exports filler, binder, and wrapper to international cigar manufacturers. This all could mean a complicated month-end close - before automation.
Calculated Risk
MARCH 28, 2023
S&P/Case-Shiller released the monthly Home Price Indices for January ("January" is a 3-month average of November, December and January closing prices). This release includes prices for 20 individual cities, two composite indices (for 10 cities and 20 cities) and the monthly National index. From S&P: S&P Corelogic Case-Shiller Index Declining Trend Continued in January The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S.
Wealth Management
MARCH 28, 2023
Current troubles in the commercial real estate market should not be compared to the Great Financial Crisis, an analyst told CNBC. Fundraising dropped for non-traded REITs in February, reports The DI Wire. These are among today’s must reads from around the commercial real estate industry.
Calculated Risk
MARCH 28, 2023
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Case-Shiller: National House Price Index "Declining Trend Continued" to 3.8% year-over-year increase in January Excerpt: Both the Case-Shiller House Price Index (HPI) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) HPI for January were released today. Here is a graph of the month-over-month (MoM) change in the Case-Shiller National Index Seasonally Adjusted (SA).
Wealth Management
MARCH 28, 2023
While the new generation of retail investors are tech-savvy, they are, nonetheless, uninformed amateurs who act more like gamblers in casinos than investors in capital markets.
Speaker: Wayne Spivak, President and CFO of SBA * Consulting Ltd., Industry Writer, Public Speaker
If you’re lost in the world of spend management needs and your GAP analysis is lacking perspective on the future state of your business performance, listen up! With the advancement of technology, the implementation of spend management best practices and concrete GAP analyses is more streamlined and accessible than ever before. And while this may sound like great news for you and your clients, it won’t be worthwhile unless you have the latest techniques to back up your ambitions!
Advisor Perspectives
MARCH 28, 2023
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has released its U.S. house price index (HPI) for January. U.S. house prices increased by 0.2% from the previous month. Year-over-year the index is up 5.3% on a non-seasonally adjusted nominal basis. After adjusting for inflation and seasonality, the real index is down 0.2% in January and down 0.3% year-over-year (seasonally adjusted).
Clever Girl Finance
MARCH 28, 2023
Is it possible to learn how to be less materialistic? It's no secret that our society is placing an increasingly heavy focus on material possessions. The constant pursuit of more and more stuff has become so ingrained in our culture that it's often hard to even imagine what life would be like without it. But what if we all took a step back and reconsidered our priorities?
Wealth Management
MARCH 28, 2023
Among the 10 cities that are seeing the highest net inflow of house hunters, half are in the Sunshine State, according a report from real estate brokerage Redfin. New York was the top out-of-state origin for buyers in three of those Florida cities: Miami, Tampa and Orlando.
MarketWatch
MARCH 28, 2023
Shares of Ammo Inc. POWW gained 0.7% in premarket trading Tuesday, after the online marketplace for the firearms and shooting sports industries said it would extend its share repurchase program until February 2024. The program is for up to $30 million worth of its stock, which represents 14.5% of the company’s market capitalization of about $207.4 million as of Monday’s close.
Speaker: Nancy Wu, Head of Sales and Customer Success at SkyStem
Automation generally supercharges any process and brings its value to the forefront. See how infusing automation such as ART (our month-end close solution), into your close can get you to the next level of closing, almost like magic! We will share a live demo of SkyStem's solution, ART and share the key elements of month-end close automation. Through ART, we'll take a look at: What month-end close automation entails Which process steps can and should be automated Benefits of achieving process au
Calculated Risk
MARCH 28, 2023
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Wednesday: • At 7:00 AM ET, The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the mortgage purchase applications index. • At 10:00 AM, Pending Home Sales Index for February. The consensus is for a 3.0% decrease in the index.
Wealth Management
MARCH 28, 2023
RPAs need the right people and technology in place to get “the underserved” to and through retirement.
Advisor Perspectives
MARCH 28, 2023
With this morning's release of the January S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index, we learned that seasonally adjusted home prices for the benchmark 20-city index saw a 0.4% decrease month-over-month (MoM), higher than the Investing.com forecast of -0.5%, and a 2.6% increase year-over-year (YoY). After adjusting for inflation, the MoM was reduced to -1.1% and the YoY was reduced to -4.8%.
Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT)
MARCH 28, 2023
By Jake Lim Wei Lun, AEPP When I first started as a financial advisor, my agency gave me a standard script to use for making appointments with prospects. I soon realized that most of the people I called would quickly cut me off and end the call before I could finish the script. To overcome this challenge, I made my script more dynamic with the password idea.
Speaker: Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, The Money Coach®
Niche markets represent a huge opportunity for the financial services industry in America. From college students and women to communities of color and low-to-moderate-income households, niche populations have specialized financial needs – but they often underutilize many valuable financial products and services. How can you better connect with these consumers?
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