Sat.Feb 22, 2020 - Fri.Feb 28, 2020

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Big Anniversaries, Accomplishments and Awards

AdvisorPR

How to Celebrate & Promote (And still be humble…if that’s your thing) The objective of public relations is to create a reputable, likable and trustworthy image with the greater public. Serving as a media resource is one surefire way to do this – becoming a trusted expert to local and national media gives your prospective clients assurance that you have been vetted and confirmed to be the sourced expert on important financial topics.

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Should I Sell My Stocks?

The Irrelevant Investor

When you type in "should I" into the Google search bar, four of the top seven results are about selling stocks. If you arrived at this website because you are Googling "should I sell my stocks," relax, breathe, let me tell you how this all works. Stocks generally go up over time. Why? Because stocks are not just numbers on a screen, they represent something very real.

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What Should You Tell Your Clients About The Coronavirus?

Indigo Marketing Agency

The financial markets took a big dip early this week over fears about the spreading coronavirus, erasing gains from earlier this year. Investors are understandably nervous about their money and their health. But as a financial advisor, how should you communicate with your clients about the uncertainty? Never let a good crisis go to waste, or in this case, a dip in the stock market.

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Who Sells When the Market Falls?

The Irrelevant Investor

There is this commonly held belief that mom and pop investors panic when the market is going down. Turns out this might not be the case after all. Jason Zweig did some excellent debunking yesterday on this topic in the Wall Street Journal : “Institutions sell more than individuals when there is a large stock-market drop,” finance professors Patrick Dennis and Deon Strickland found in a 2002 study.

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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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How Does the Stock Market Bottom?

The Irrelevant Investor

Despite the recent selloff, things are still relatively fine. I know nobody wants to hear this right now, but the S&P 500 is still up double digits over the last year and 36% over the last three years. What has people shook, understandably, is the speed of this decline. Depending on where stocks close today, we could be looking at a 10% haircut in just five sessions.

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Surveying the Stock Market Damage

The Irrelevant Investor

It's been a rough few days for stocks, as you already know. Over the last two sessions, the S&P 500 shed nearly $2 trillion in market cap, its largest two-day decline ever. Of course there is a denominator thing going on, stocks were at an all-time high, so naturally a large decline will be a record in dollar terms. In percentage terms, it was the 31st worst 2-day return since 1950.

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Animal Spirits: Michael’s Worst Investment Ever

The Irrelevant Investor

On today’s show we discuss: The state of the U.S. consumer Morgan Stanley is buying E*Trade Mom and pop are on an epic buying spree Turnover in the 1% Millennials are saving too much money?!?! The longest expansion in history Americans don't understand diversification People are cutting the cord Zillow is losing millions on houses Listen here Recommendations The Devil's Chessboard The Great Influenza Before sunrise The MVP Machine Life Isn't Everything Ted Seides and Dan Rasmussen Tweets [link]

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Talk Your Book: Small and Mid Cap Growth Investing

The Irrelevant Investor

Today's Animal Spirits Talk Your Book is brought to you by Conestoga Capital Advisors. For more information please visit their site here. On today's show we discussed: Avoiding the biggest losers in the small cap growth space Filtering down an investing universe Position sizing and risk management Portfolio construction How management influences buy/sell decisions Capacity constraints in the small cap space Why mid cap stocks are often under followed Listen here: Articles mentioned: Size matters

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What Happens When You Buy the Dip?

The Irrelevant Investor

Last month I was at a casino playing blackjack. As I sat down to play my first hand, I felt a surge of adrenaline rush through my body. Was I playing with too much money on the line? Is that what was causing my heart to race like I was about to jump out of an airplane? No, I bought in for a few hundred bucks and was playing with $25 chips. The amount I was wagering had absolutely zero effect on my financial well being.

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These Are the Goods

The Irrelevant Investor

Articles A lower bar for becoming an expert raises the bar for remaining one By Myles Udland Knowing the limits of your intelligence requires a certain level of intelligence, so some people are too stupid to know how stupid they are. By Morgan Housel The briefly held RIA fantasy that E*Trade would replace TD Ameritrade as champion of the sub-$100-million RIA is over.

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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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The Current Media Landscape

The Irrelevant Investor

733,000 cable customers bailed on Comcast last year. The trend of cord cutting is playing out all across the Pay-TV universe, which you can see in this incredible chart from the WSJ. Content is getting more expensive, customers are leaving in droves, and there is more competition than ever before, which you'd think would be a disaster for these stocks.

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