Tue.Sep 19, 2023

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Robinhood's Loss Could Embolden States Still on the Fiduciary Fence

Wealth Management

The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling against the online trading app last month could create “more breathing room” for other states to follow through on their own fiduciary regulations.

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Research links: the inevitability of losses

Abnormal Returns

Trend following Trend following ignore narratives. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com) How trend following can help diversify a portfolio. (priceactionlab.com) ESG Green investing strategies should be lower risk. (alphaarchitect.com) ESG leaders have been outperforming the market. (bloomberg.com) Behavior How scarcity affects decision making. (sciencedaily.com) The marshmallow effect and investment performance.

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Planning for Digital Assets 101

Wealth Management

From Bitcoin to Gmail accounts, the rules governing ownership, storage and transferability of digital assets differ significantly from traditional forms of wealth.

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Wednesday: FOMC Statement

Calculated Risk

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. • During the day, The AIA's Architecture Billings Index for August (a leading indicator for commercial real estate). • At 2:00 PM, FOMC Meeting Announcement.

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2025 Industry Index: How Top Advisors Are Scaling Smarter (and Faster) This Year

Where are top advisors focusing in 2025? AcquireUp’s 2025 Industry Index reveals it all. Based on insights from 200+ financial professionals nationwide, discover why 74% say seminars and referrals deliver the best ROI, how automation is helping advisors scale faster, and why only 8% are tapping into niche marketing (a major growth opportunity!). Whether you're refining your client acquisition strategy or scaling your practice, this report gives you the real-world data, benchmarks, and action ste

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PE Firm Carlyle Takes Minority Investment in Captrust

Wealth Management

Fielding Miller, Captrust’s CEO, will continue to lead the firm and will remain the largest individual shareholder.

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#FA Success Ep 351: Facilitating Successful Advisor Mergers & Acquisitions By Avoiding The Conflicts Of A Success Fee, With Jessica Polito

Nerd's Eye View

Welcome back to the 351st episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Jessica Polito. Jessica is the Founder and Principal for Turkey Hill Management, a mergers & acquisitions consulting firm that assists financial advisors with the sale, acquisition, integration, or merger of their firms. What's unique about Jessica, though, is how she has built a practice helping financial advisors and their firms navigate the intricacies of buying, selling, or merging

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LA Port Inbound Traffic Down YoY in August

Calculated Risk

Notes: The expansion to the Panama Canal was completed in 2016 (As I noted several years ago ), and some of the traffic that used the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is probably going through the canal. This might be impacting TEUs on the West Coast. Container traffic gives us an idea about the volume of goods being exported and imported - and usually some hints about the trade report since LA area ports handle about 40% of the nation's container port traffic.

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New Survey Makes the Business Case for Pro Bono Planning

Wealth Management

Some 53% of CFPs would do more pro bono planning work if their firm encouraged it, yet only 28% report that their firms support it, according to a new survey from the Foundation for Financial Planning.

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Housing Starts Decreased to 1.283 million Annual Rate in August

Calculated Risk

From the Census Bureau: Permits, Starts and Completions Housing Starts: Privately‐owned housing starts in August were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,283,000. This is 11.3 percent below the revised July estimate of 1,447,000 and is 14.8 percent below the August 2022 rate of 1,505,000. Single‐family housing starts in August were at a rate of 941,000; this is 4.3 percent below the revised July figure of 983,000.

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Carson’s Jamie Hopkins to Lead Private Wealth Team at Bryn Mawr Trust

Wealth Management

Leaving Carson Group to spend more time with his family, Jamie Hopkins will remain a Carson partner and continue to lead the FinServ Foundation.

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Data Talks, CFOs Listen: Why Analytics Are Key To Better Spend Management

Speaker: Claire Grosjean, Global Finance & Operations Executive

Finance teams are drowning in data—but is it actually helping them spend smarter? Without the right approach, excess spending, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities continue to drain profitability. While analytics offers powerful insights, financial intelligence requires more than just numbers—it takes the right blend of automation, strategy, and human expertise.

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August Housing Starts: Near Record Number of Multi-Family Housing Units Under Construction

Calculated Risk

Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: August Housing Starts: Near Record Number of Multi-Family Housing Units Under Construction Excerpt: The third graph shows the month-to-month comparison for total starts between 2022 (blue) and 2023 (red). Total starts were down 14.8% in August compared to August 2022. And starts year-to-date are down 12.5% compared to last year.

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FAFSA Is Getting a Makeover, Here's What You Need to Know

Wealth Management

The form that students and their parents use to apply for financial aid has been revamped for the 2024-25 school year.

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Clips From Today’s Halftime Report

The Reformed Broker

Amazon doesn’t need the hype of AI for its stock to trade higher, says Ritholtz’s Josh Brown from CNBC Fed kicks off 2-day meeting: What investors should expect from CNBC Intel core processors expected to bring AI to PCs by December 14 from CNBC Final Trades: Uber, Cisco & more from CNBC

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Kevin Durant Launches Sports and Entertainment Advisory Firm

Wealth Management

Boardroom Advisory will “work with athletes, executives, and brands to create opportunity through venture and private equity investing, sports ownership opportunities, business strategy and content creation.

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What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.

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The Biggest Mystery on Wall Street

The Reformed Broker

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: ►Where’s the Recession? – Biggest mystery on Wall Street. ►Oil Prices – “Surging oil prices could sour soft landing hopes, but it won’t spark a crisis like the 1970s” ►Earnings, Bef.

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Shaping Future Success: Financial Advisors Embrace Convergence, Growth, and Technology

Wealth Management

Thursday, October 12, 2023 | 2:00 PM ET

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management , is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on iTunes , Spotify , Google , YouTube , and Bloomberg. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ Barry Ritholtz : This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest.

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How World-Leading Family Offices Are Thinking and Acting

Wealth Management

Explore one of the largest and most global family office reports, from Citi Private Bank.

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How to Avoid Pitfalls In Automation: Keep Humans In the Loop

Speaker: Erroll Amacker

Automation is transforming finance but without strong financial oversight it can introduce more risk than reward. From missed discrepancies to strained vendor relationships, accounts payable automation needs a human touch to deliver lasting value. This session is your playbook to get automation right. We’ll explore how to balance speed with control, boost decision-making through human-machine collaboration, and unlock ROI with fewer errors, stronger fraud prevention, and smoother operations.

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How Individual Retirement Accounts Changed the Stock Market Forever

A Wealth of Common Sense

There are a lot of factors that drive the performance of financial markets over time. Fundamentals like valuations, economic growth, earnings and dividends are the main drivers of returns over the long run. Plus you have to consider demographics, productivity and innovation. And the hardest variable to quantify will always be psychology. No one can predict how people are going to feel in the future.

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Top Cryptocurrency Exchanges By Volume in 2023 – Hidden Gems?

Trade Brains

Top Cryptocurrency Exchanges : Cryptocurrency markets are constantly growing with an increase in investors and traders timely. Among evolving markets with market participants, cryptocurrency exchanges have also increased in number for the easy usage of digital currency markets with well-built technology and trust. Here we shall see the importance of cryptocurrency and its top exchanges ranked by its traded volumes on a daily basis.

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Do friends and clients know you are accepting new clients?

Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT)

By Bryce Sanders Why don’t your friends and clients send referrals? The answer might be so ridiculous that it is not obvious. Simply, they may be unaware you are accepting new clients. There might be other reasons as well; however, making it clear you are adding new relationships is a good starting point. Why might people think you are closed to new business?

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Seller Financing of Real Estate is Back

Advisor Perspectives

Rising interest rates are giving sellers an opportunity to broaden their opportunity set.

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Book of Secrets on the Month-End Close

Based off SkyStem's popular e-Book, the book of secrets to the month-end close will be revealed in this one-hour webinar. Learn leading practices when it comes to building a strong and sustainable month-end close that has room to grow and evolve. Learn about the power of precise estimates, why reconciliations are critical to closing the books, how and when to automate, and how the chart of accounts play into your close process.

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How To Stop Spending Money: Curb Your Over Spending

Clever Girl Finance

Spending money never gets old, does it? While it’s easy to spend more cash than you mean to, it’s equally difficult to learn how to stop spending money. But it gets easier when you know the benefits of spending less and have a game plan for the future! Table of contents Why do people over spend? How to stop spending money: 5 Key focus areas Expert tip: Focus on improving your habits 5 Tips to help you be mindful with spending money I’ve learned how to stop spending money, now w

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Signatureglobal India IPO Review – GMP, Price, Details & More

Trade Brains

Signatureglobal India IPO Review : Signatureglobal India is coming up with the IPO which is set to be listed on the NSE and BSE. The IPO will be open for subscription on 20th September 2023, closing on 22nd September 2023. In this article, we’ll dive into the strengths and weaknesses of Signatureglobal India IPO review and give you a comprehensive review of their IPO.

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Animal Spirits: Americans Love Borrowing Money

The Irrelevant Investor

Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by F/m Investments: See here and here for more information on F/m Investments and their Opportunistic Income ETF On today’s show, we discuss: The ‘new not normal’ World to Tokyo – message received Ray Dalio says he doesn’t want to hold bonds, cash ‘is good’ Amateurs pile into 24-hour options: ‘Its just gambling’ Zero-day opt.

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27 Tips For How To Pay Off Credit Cards Fast

Clever Girl Finance

Debt can make finances difficult and cause stress. That being said, it’s important to prioritize paying it off so you can focus on your other goals. The good news is that if you have the right mindset and you use these tips, you’ll understand how to pay off credit cards fast. Table of contents Why debt can hurt your finances How to pay off credit cards fast Expert tip: Pick a few ideas and get started What are the best 3 ways to pay off credit card debt fast?

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Stop Falling Short When It Matters Most—The Elite Advisor’s Playbook to Success

Like being inches from the end zone, many advisors are frustratingly close to their next level of success. You work hard. You put in the hours. But if your closing rate is stuck or your pipeline feels like a revolving door… something has to change. Most advisors are just one small shift away from dramatically increasing their revenue. The difference?

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Secular Growth In The Pet Industry

Fortune Financial

These days we see no shortage of investment articles about promising megatrends in electrification, artificial intelligence (“AI”), and GLP-1 weight loss treatments. While these exciting new developments garner a lot of attention, there are a number of other secular growth stories that, for investors, are equally worthy of attention. One such growth story is the fundamental shift in how consumers view their household pets.

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Picking Apart A Very Sophisticated Portfolio

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

When I was working on yesterday's post I stumbled back into the Return Stacked 60/40 Absolute Return Index which is a portfolio funds blended together with a lot of embedded leverage in pursuit of capital efficiency. It's a very sophisticated portfolio. The high level objective as follows: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The Index is designed to preserve exposure to core stock and bond allocations, while bolstering expected risk-adjusted returns with non-correlated return streams

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Updated Whitepaper – Defined Duration Investing

Discipline Funds

We’ve been implementing the Defined Duration strategy in real-time for over a year now and the feedback has been tremendously positive (updated white paper is here ). For those who aren’t familiar, this strategy is based on the asset-liability matching methodology model we constructed which quantifies a “duration” for all asset classes and strategies.

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Why Switching From Diesel is an Expensive Deal for India?

Trade Brains

Just a few days back, at the annual conference of the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari made a comment urging the finance minister to impose a pollution tax on every engine that runs on diesel. But things took a wild twist! What began as a well-intentioned proposal got twisted into a rumour that the government is going to impose a 10% GST on diesel-powered vehicles.

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Demo SkyStem’s Award Winning Month-End Close Solution & Earn $100

Is your finance team bogged down by endless data requests and disorganized spreadsheets during the month-end close? It’s time to consider a better option – automate with ART! SkyStem’s solution works alongside your ERP to transform the close and account reconciliation process and speed up month-end work. Explore SkyStem’s ART - the award-winning account reconciliation automation platform - and receive a $100 Amazon gift card as a thank you for your time.