Tue.Jun 06, 2023

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CoreLogic: House Prices up 2.0% YoY in April

Calculated Risk

Notes: This CoreLogic House Price Index report is for April. The recent Case-Shiller index release was for March. The CoreLogic HPI is a three-month weighted average and is not seasonally adjusted (NSA). From CoreLogic: CoreLogic: Home Price Growth Continues Annual Single-Digit Slowdown in April CoreLogic®. today released the CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI™) and HPI Forecast™ for April 2023.

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Industrial Investors Show More Caution on New Deals

Wealth Management

A drop in demand for industrial space amid massive new product deliveries portends a potential glut of new product. Coupled with higher interest rates and worries about a recession, it’s forcing investors to rethink their acquisition strategies.

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#FA Success Ep 336: Showing Prospects An (Asset) Map To Generate More Advice Engagement, With H. Adam Holt

Nerd's Eye View

Welcome back to the 336th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Adam Holt. Adam is a principal with RubinGoldman and Associates, and the Founder and CEO of Asset-Map, a financial planning tool that helps financial advisors create a visual representation of their clients’ financial situation, reaching over 1.25 million users.

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Do Retirees Want Steady, Increasing or Decreasing Spending?

Wealth Management

Wealth and health are the major determining factors regarding retirement spending.

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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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Second Home Market: South Lake Tahoe in May

Calculated Risk

With the pandemic, there was a surge in 2nd home buying. I'm looking at data for some second home markets - and I'm tracking those markets to see if there is an impact from lending changes, rising mortgage rates or the easing of the pandemic. This graph is for South Lake Tahoe since 2004 through May 2023, and shows inventory (blue), and the year-over-year (YoY) change in the median price (12-month average).

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Pershing X Unveils New Multicustodial Platform, Wove

Wealth Management

More than a year in the making, BNY Mellon and Pershing X have introduced their fully integrated end-to-end wealth management platform.

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11 Midweek Must Reads for Real Estate Investors (June 7, 2023)

Wealth Management

Historic levels of new multifamily construction might threaten the profits of large REITs with holdings in the Sunbelt, reported The Wall Street Journal. Delinquencies on CMBS loans backed by office buildings rose the most in five years this May, according to Trepp figures. These are among today’s must reads for real estate investors.

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Wednesday: Trade Deficit

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. • At 8:30 AM, Trade Balance report for April from the Census Bureau. The consensus is the trade deficit to be $75.4 billion. The U.S. trade deficit was at $64.2 Billion in March.

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Planning Through Turmoil

Wealth Management

Take off your financial advisor cap and put on your unlicensed therapist tweed.

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Clips From Today’s Halftime Report

The Reformed Broker

Final Trades: Uber, Charles Schwab, Enphase & more from CNBC. The post Clips From Today’s Halftime Report appeared first on The Reformed Broker.

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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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Private Equity Firm Altas Takes a Stake in Mercer

Wealth Management

The deal with Altas Partners is expected to raise over $1 billion in common equity and bring the Mercer’s valuation to north of $3 billion.

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Early Look at Local Housing Markets in May

Calculated Risk

Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Early Look at Local Housing Markets in May A brief excerpt: This is a look at a few early reporting local markets in May. I’m tracking about 40 local housing markets in the US. Some of the 40 markets are states, and some are metropolitan areas. I’ll update these tables throughout the month as additional data is released.

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Pershing X Unveils New Multi-Custodial Platform, Wove

Wealth Management

More than a year in the making, BNY Mellon and Pershing X have introduced their fully integrated end-to-end wealth management platform.

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Tuesday links: the pursuit of more

Abnormal Returns

Markets Managed futures have bounced back after a rough Q1. (rcmalternatives.com) Using asset class return forecasts is a bad way to invest. (klementoninvesting.substack.com) Are commodities a broken asset class? (monevator.com) Crypto With Binance, the SEC is only accelerating its crackdown on crypto. (slate.com) The SEC is focused on Coinbase's ($COIN) staking service.

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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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Nitrogen Introduces Pricing Plan for Small But Growing RIAs

Wealth Management

As part of the announcement, Nitrogen has rebuilt the data architecture underneath its platform, allowing insights to be delivered in milliseconds and show changes over time.

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Coinbase Is Basically Outlawed Now

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: ►Apple Vision Pro – “Laugh all you want, everyone’s retirement is riding on this” ►MegaCap Tech – “Mega-cap tech has drawn comparisons to the internet stocks of the late 1990s.” The post Coinbase Is Basically Outlawed Now appeared first on The Reformed Brok

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Seizing New Opportunities in Closed-End Funds

Wealth Management

Tuesday, June 27, 2023 | 2:00 PM ET

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Transcript: Ramit Sethi

The Big Picture

 The transcript from this week’s, Ramit Sethi on Living Richly , is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts , Bloomberg , Spotify , Stitcher , and YouTube. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, what can I say?

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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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RIA Edge Podcast: It’s a Bull Market for Advice. But Is it a Bull Market for Advisors?

Wealth Management

Steve Sanduski discusses how advisors can accelerate the gerowth of their businesses.

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Animal Spirits: Is the Bear Market Over?

The Irrelevant Investor

Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by birddogs: Go to birddogs.com/spirits and enter promo code SPIRITS for a free Yeti-style tumbler with your order. On today’s show, we discuss: A visual breakdown of America’s stagnating number of births Construction employment hits new high in May The labor shortage myth Eggs are going on sale just months after prices hit records Token projects have to eat that sh*t.

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Driving Firm Growth and Success: A 2023 Mid-Year Update

Wealth Management

Thursday, June 29, 2023 | 2:00 PM ET

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Should You Worry About “Recession” Risk?

Discipline Funds

There has been a heated debate in recent months about the risk of recession. On one side you have optimists who have been saying that the US economy remains robust and on the other side you have pessimists who are worried about recession and a potential 2008 scenario. In a way both of these groups have been right. The economy has decelerated sharply in the last year, but we aren’t seeing data that is consistent with what the NBER would define as a “recession” So how concerned s

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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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US Crypto Crackdown Reaches Fever Pitch as SEC Sues Coinbase

Wealth Management

The SEC claims Coinbase, the largest US crypto platform, evaded regulations by letting users trade numerous crypto tokens that were actually unregistered securities.

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A Perspective on Secular Bull and Bear Markets

Advisor Perspectives

The S&P 500 real monthly averages of daily closes peaked in November of 2021 and 2022 was a bear market. Let's examine the past to broaden our understanding of the range of historical trends in market performance.

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Coinbase Sued by SEC for Breaking US Securities Rules

Wealth Management

The SEC claims Coinbase, the largest US crypto platform, evaded regulations by letting users trade numerous crypto tokens that were actually unregistered securities.

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Gujarat Fluorochemicals Vs Navin Fluorine – Future Plans & More

Trade Brains

Gujarat Fluorochemicals Vs Navin Fluorine: Many chemical companies gave multi-bagger returns recently making their investors richer and promoters multi-millionaire. As the rally has plateaued, does it make sense to buy a chemical stock? If yes, then which sub-sector. In this article, we’ll perform a comparative analysis of two companies in the fluorochemicals space: Gujarat Fluorochemicals vs Navin Fluorine International and see if they can be good bets for the coming quarters.

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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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10 Habits Of Successful Women

Clever Girl Finance

What influential women do you have in your life? Whether it’s your mom, best friend, favorite female celebrity, or influencer, there’s no doubt that it’s important to have women in our lives that we can look up to and learn from. Find out what the habits of successful women are and how to make them part of your life! Table of contents 1.

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New Opportunities in Closed-End Funds

Wealth Management

Tuesday, June 27, 2023 | 2:00 PM ET

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Five Questions: How to Be a Top Wealth Management Firm

Advisor Perspectives

Before firms can find out the best way forward, there’s a series of questions that need answers.

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Driving Firm Growth and Success: A 2023 Mid-Year Update

Wealth Management

Thursday, June 29, 2023 | 2:00 PM ET

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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.