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Podcast: Embracing a Specialized Niche As a Financial Advisor with Landon Loveall (Listen Now)

Indigo Marketing Agency

Embracing a Niche As a Financial Advisor. We know that embracing a specialty is the most critical decision you can make in your marketing. But where should you start developing a niche as a financial advisor? In this episode, we’ll visit with a top-performing specialist advisor, Landon Loveall of KB Financial Advisors. We will review how he built his firm from the ground up by embracing a niche, including: How he chose his specialty.

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Uncomfortable Reading

The Irrelevant Investor

I don't pay attention to negative market commentary. I avoid it not because I want to stick my head in the sand and ignore potential warnings, it's just that this type of content doesn't make you a better investor. It's mostly hyperbolic and fortunately, mostly wrong. But the real reason I don't read it is because it's a waste of my time. It won't change how I manage money for myself and it won't impact how we manage money for our clients.

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Family Matters: New Considerations for Structuring Family Offices

Brown Advisory

Family Matters: New Considerations for Structuring Family Offices ajackson Tue, 10/22/2019 - 15:48 Families that have created or inherited considerable wealth contend with a wide range of responsibilities. They must support the needs of the current generation; oversee homes, aircraft, curated art and other substantial fixed assets; preserve and transfer wealth for the benefit of future generations; and, in many cases, fund broader community and philanthropic aims.

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Family Matters: New Considerations for Structuring Family Offices

Brown Advisory

Family Matters: New Considerations for Structuring Family Offices. ajackson. Tue, 10/22/2019 - 15:48. Families that have created or inherited considerable wealth contend with a wide range of responsibilities. They must support the needs of the current generation; oversee homes, aircraft, curated art and other substantial fixed assets; preserve and transfer wealth for the benefit of future generations; and, in many cases, fund broader community and philanthropic aims.

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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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Family Matters: New Considerations for Structuring Family Offices

Brown Advisory

Family Matters: New Considerations for Structuring Family Offices. ajackson. Tue, 10/22/2019 - 15:48. Families that have created or inherited considerable wealth contend with a wide range of responsibilities. They must support the needs of the current generation; oversee homes, aircraft, curated art and other substantial fixed assets; preserve and transfer wealth for the benefit of future generations; and, in many cases, fund broader community and philanthropic aims.

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These Are the Goods

The Irrelevant Investor

Articles William Stolz, who has worked for two years at an Amazon warehouse in Shakopee, Minnesota, told me that he’s expected to grab an item every eight second By Charles Duhigg More product searches are conducted on Amazon than on Google, which has allowed Bezos to build an advertising business as valuable as the entirety of IBM. By Franklin Foer The streaming video era is already starting to resemble the old age of television that viewers were so excited to escape By Matthew Ball Inflation v

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12 Charts You Ought to See Before the Next Recession

The Irrelevant Investor

Josh Ben and I did a video about how to build a recession proof portfolio. [link] These are the 12 charts I used for my talking points. You can see that recessions have become less frequent with the passage of time. This makes sense as the economy has matured. They've also been shorter in duration. The United States is home to one of the most dynamic economies the world has ever seen.

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Where’s the Buyback Beef?

The Irrelevant Investor

On the podcast this week I spoke about a big story that seemingly went unnoticed. Apparently, the most commonly cited data on buybacks isn't accurate. Yes, you read this right. The data doesn't account for the fact that two-thirds of buybacks are done to offset employee stock ownership plans. Here's a representative from the Fed in an email to Barron's : The current source for equity issuance data in the Financial Accounts of the United States does not fully incorporate issuance to employees by

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Animal Spirits: The Least Happy Age

The Irrelevant Investor

On today's Animal Spirits, we discuss: The 60/40 is dead. Again But it has worked even when bond returns have sucked Why don't rich people just stop working? Carl Icahn's succession is like real life Succession Are influencers a winner take all game? Housing and recessions Wait, what about buyback data? The best predictor of stock returns The least happy age How households invest Bob Iger's big bet that Ben doesn't think is a big bet Hanky panky in the futures market?