Calculated Risk
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 0.8% week-over-week. This is the latest in the year that inventory was still increasing! Click on graph for larger image. This inventory graph is courtesy of Altos Research. As of November 3rd, inventory was at 567 thousand (7-day average), compared to 563 thousand the prior week. Year-to-date, inventory is up 15.5%.
Wealth Management
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
The CEO of Banrion Capital Management discusses the importance of alternative investments in portfolio planning.
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Calculated Risk
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
From the Federal Reserve: The October 2023 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices The October 2023 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices (SLOOS) addressed changes in the standards and terms on, and demand for, bank loans to businesses and households over the past three months, which generally correspond to the third quarter of 2023.
The Big Picture
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Source: Chartr We talked about this 2 weeks ago , but the nation missed a fantastic opportunity to refinance all of the outstanding US debt at much lower levels. Every corporate debt issuer and homeowner in America refinanced at lower rates — except for Uncle Sam. If you were in Congress from 2015-2021, you are the reason why HALF of the projected federal debt will soon be interest payments.
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Wealth Management
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
The Pacific Legal Foundation, which has a record for arguing against “government overreach” before the Supreme Court, is representing Frank Black in the latest case challenging FINRA's Constitutionality.
Abnormal Returns
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Markets A five-step framework for reading market news. (tker.co) By these measures, small cap stocks are cheap. (morningstar.com) What happens historically after a Zweig Breadth Thrust? (quantifiableedges.com) Strategy Failure is inevitable when it comes to investing. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com) Five benefits of higher rates on cash, including no drag on holding an emergency fund.
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Abnormal Returns
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Podcasts Brendan Frazier on how your clients change will inevitably over time. (wiredplanning.com) Michael Kitces talks with Jon Henderson who is the Founder and CIO for Echo45 Advisors about building a tech stack for a breakaway advisory firm. (kitces.com) Dan Haylett talks with Phil Pearlman about the relationship between health and wealth. (humansvsretirement.com) Custodians Charles Schwab ($SCHW) is laying off staff post-TDA closing.
Wealth Management
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
The expected bankruptcy filing by WeWork could deal another blow to New York’s struggling office market, reports The New York Times. Alternative investment managers have filed a lawsuit against the SEC over its attempts to regulate private funds. These are among the must reads from the real estate investment world to kick off the new week.
Nerd's Eye View
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Welcome to the November 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! This month's edition kicks off with the news that Practice Intel has launched a new "growth platform" centered around quantifying the quality of an advisor's client relationships with an all-in "Relationship Quality Index" (RQI) – which while
Wealth Management
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
An overview of the new fiduciary reporting requirements for trustees and their advisors.
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.
Calculated Risk
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Erase Some of Last Week's Huge Improvement In and of itself, today would rank among the handful of "worst days" of any given year in term of mortgage rate movement. In other words, comparing today's rates to Friday's shows a big jump relative to the average day. Specifically, most lenders are offering rates that are at least an eighth of a percent (.125%) higher versus Friday morning.
Wealth Management
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
PE-style “whitelists” hamper efforts to expand the secondary market for fund stakes, as regulators raise liquidity concerns about private capital.
Calculated Risk
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: ICE (Black Knight) Mortgage Monitor: "It’s fair to expect prices to weaken later in 2023" A brief excerpt: Some interesting data on negative equity and limited equity. • As of September, 383K (0.7% of) mortgage holders were underwater on their homes – less than half the share prior to the pandemic and in the early 2000s before the Global Financial Crisis • Likewise, the number of borrowers in limited-equity positions remains historically low,
Wealth Management
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
A life settlement firm that went public via SPAC in July is getting into the wealth management business.
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.
XY Planning Network
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Seven years ago XYPN started conducting an annual benchmarking survey of its members to provide data-backed firm journey analysis for fee-for-service financial planning firms. With each year, the resulting Benchmarking Study has painted a clearer and more intricate picture for planners looking to map out their own firm journeys during their implementing, building, and scaling phases.
Wealth Management
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
An insightful conversation on how innovation, AI and other cutting-edge tools are preparing advisors for the great wealth transfer.
Advisor Perspectives
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Being left solely responsible for wealth through divorce or widowhood later in life comes with its own set of responsibilities, opportunities, and challenges. As with so many financial life events, it is often the emotional challenges that are the hardest.
Wealth Management
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Republic Capital Group moves headquarters from Houston to New York City’s Rockefeller Plaza in bid for proximity & talent.
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.
Alpha Architect
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
This paper focuses on "organization capital," representing intangible assets in a firm's key employees that is not captured by classic value measures such as book-to-market. The authors propose a structural model to analyze the impact of organizational capital on asset prices and argue that shareholders perceive firms with high levels of organizational capital to be riskier than those with more physical capital.
Wealth Management
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
But you must act before the Dec. 31, 2023 deadline.
Trade Brains
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Fundamental Analysis Of Force Motors : Transportation is necessary for trade and commerce to exist. Successful businesses and the economy both rely on the movement of people. In light of the COVID lockdown and resulting slowdown in the economy, we have begun to observe a recovery in business, and this growth is reflected in the price of its shares. In this article, we’ll analyze Force Motors fundamentals as a company that deals in commercial vehicles for the auto industry.
Wealth Management
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Catchlight.ai, the AI-powered lead optimization tool developed by Fidelity Labs, now matches unique messages to different groups of convertible prospects.
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Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT)
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
By Joyce Chan Financial advisors often work in highly saturated markets, leaving prospects unsure of why they should pick one advisor over another. By having a personal brand, though, you’ll stand out from the crowd. A personal brand allows you to consistently communicate what makes you different from your competitors. Because of personal branding, my business model shifted from a hunting model, where I spent lots of time prospecting, to an attraction model, which is where prospects contact me r
Wealth Management
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Leaders from all sectors of the 401(k) industry gathered at the RPA Broker/Dealer Roundtable in New York City.
Random Roger's Retirement Planning
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
The fund in question is the Simplify Tail Risk Strategy ETF (CYA). The fund owns a lot of puts and should go up a lot in the face of a crash but not necessarily a slow protracted decline like there was in 2022. According to Portfoliovisualizer, CYA dropped 46.10% in 2022. Here's what caught my eye that it might have blown up. It was already down a lot to be at $5.44 on October 27th but it looks like last week's S&P 500 rally crushed the fund.
Wealth Management
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Avantax said the decline was due to attrition of lower producing advisors as it moves closer to finalizing a sale to Cetera later this month.
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A Wealth of Common Sense
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by the US Benchmark Series: On today’s show, we spoke with Alex Morris, Co-Founder and CIO of the US Benchmark Series by F/m Investments to discuss making bets on interest rates and duration risk. On today’s show, we discuss: Thinking about lengthening bond duration Making bets on interest rate movements Timing duration bets Asymmetries in the fixed-income marke.
Wealth Management
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
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Carson Wealth
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Last week, we discussed how stocks moved into a 10% correction after falling the previous three months. We also noted that this was normal, as 22 of the past 44 years saw a 10% correction, with many of those years still finishing much higher. Although many were worried, the economy remained quite strong and odds were high the Fed was done hiking rates.
Wealth Management
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Republic Capital Group moves headquarters from Houston to New York City’s Rockefeller Plaza in bid for proximity & talent.
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