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Five Things That Could Knock Nvidia Down

The Reformed Broker

Okay, it’s up 10,000% since May of 2013 and is now the best performing stock in America during the past decade. Everyone is obsessed. It’s the biggest story in the market this year. Cramer has now named a second family dog after it. Jensen Huang’s name is now in the mainstream alongside Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk.

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10 Sunday Reads

The Big Picture

Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • We Want Them Infected : These ‘experts’ sold the U.S. on a disastrous COVID plan, and never paid a professional price. A painstakingly documented new book by Jonathan Howard, a neurologist at New York University and a veteran debunker of the pseudoscience contaminating our efforts to fight the pandemic.

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Personal finance links: faith in the system

Abnormal Returns

Podcasts Jonathan Hollow talks with Andrew Hallam author of "Balance: How to Invest and Spend for Happiness, Health, and Wealth." (podcasts.apple.com) Morgan Housel on the 'art of spending money.' (open.spotify.com) Taxes What Is a 83(b) election? (thomaskopelman.com) Who is eligible for the retirement savings tax credit? (humbledollar.com) Fraud How to protect yourself against check fraud.

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Pass-Through Entity Taxes: Mechanics, Considerations, And Planning Opportunities For Navigating SALT Cap Workarounds

Nerd's Eye View

The 2017 Tax Cuts & Jobs Act introduced a $10,000 limit on the State And Local Tax (SALT) deduction that was previously available for taxpayers who itemized their deductions. In response to the new deduction limit, many states enacted laws creating a new Pass-Through Entity Tax (PTET) designed to help owners of pass-through businesses (partnerships, LLCs, and S corporations) avoid the limitation and preserve the deductibility of their state tax payments.

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8 Sins of a Manual Reconciliation

Speaker: Nancy Wu, Head of Sales and Customer Success at SkyStem

Business operations are getting increasingly complex, shareholders are demanding more, and your auditors are breathing down your neck like never before. In this high-pressure environment, it’s important to remember that reconciliation activity is your last line of defense against financial fraud and errors. Insisting on a manual process to handle month-end reconciliations is a risky endeavor that places an undue burden on your accounting team.

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The Bet

The Reformed Broker

Eleven years ago this spring, a startup called Betterment published a blog post stating that human financial advisors were obsolete and that the people who work in the advice industry are pigs. The basis of their post was an NBER study that sent secret shoppers out to meet with “financial advisors” who then received high-cost, unsatisfactory advice.

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Adviser links: technology bets

Abnormal Returns

Podcasts Michael Kitces talks with Meg Bartelt of Flow Financial Planning about evolving her practice. (kitces.com) Brendan Frazier talks with Bari Tessler, author of "The Art of Money: A Life-Changing Guide to Financial Happiness." (wiredplanning.com) Cameron Passmore and Benjamin Felix talk with David Blanchett about regret optimized portfolios. (rationalreminder.libsyn.com) Austin, TX RWM is coming to Austin, TX!

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Kitces & Carl Ep 113: What Does It Really Mean To Be A Lead Advisor?

Nerd's Eye View

While advancing a career in any industry can be challenging, the lack of formal career development programs offered in the workplace for associate advisors can make it particularly difficult for them to gain the experience they need to become lead financial advisors. And since managing the client relationship – a key responsibility for lead advisors – relies so heavily on nuanced ‘soft’ skills that are gained only through direct experience, finding ways to get hands-on ex

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We are Austin-bound June 12th

The Reformed Broker

RWM is coming to Austin, TX June 12th-14th @Downtown with more detailsEmail us at info@ritholtzwealth.com subject line “Austin” to reserve a meeting slot! pic.twitter.com/9iSdG4HFf3 — Ritholtz Wealth (@RitholtzWealth) May 19, 2023 I’m headed out to Austin, Texas this June and bringing a whole bunch of my Ritholtz Wealth Management colleagues with me, including our financial planner in the area.

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Are Labor Costs Driving Inflation? (No)

The Big Picture

“Tight labor markets have raised concerns about the role of labor costs in persistently high inflation readings. Analysis shows that higher labor costs are passed along to customers in the form of higher nonhousing services prices, however the effect on overall inflation is very small. Labor-cost growth has no meaningful effect on goods or housing services inflation.

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Navigating Financial Storms: Strategies for Building Resilient Balance Sheets

Speaker: Carolina Aponte - Owner and CEO, Caja Holdings LLC

In today's rapidly changing business environment, building a resilient balance sheet is crucial to the survival of any business. A resilient balance sheet allows a company to withstand financial shocks and adapt to changing market conditions. To achieve this, companies need to focus on key strategies such as maintaining adequate liquidity, managing debt levels, diversifying revenue streams, and prioritizing profitability over growth.

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Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns

Abnormal Returns

Top clicks this week Ten bad market takes including 'Recession is inevitable?' (ritholtz.com) Why so many Americans think their house is the best investment. (awealthofcommonsense.com) 10 charts this week including the surge in Nvidia ($NVDA). (bilello.blog) What do adult children owe their parents? (fatherly.com) Buy-and-hold forever doesn't work out very well.

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Accelerating Firm Growth With A Niche: How I Built A $48M AUM Advisory Firm In 3 Years

Nerd's Eye View

When a financial advisor starts their own firm, they face many important choices. One of the key decisions is determining the type of clients they want to serve. Some advisors may choose to take a generalist approach that leaves the door open to working with the broadest possible pool of prospective clients. But with hundreds of thousands of financial advisors competing for the same prospects, it can be challenging to build a generalist advisory business from scratch.

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Clips From Today’s Halftime Report

The Reformed Broker

Final Trades: Amazon, Freeport-McMoRan & Boeing from CNBC. The post Clips From Today’s Halftime Report appeared first on The Reformed Broker.

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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • The King’s Dominion (The real Succession) : His sons are at war. He’s divorced his fourth wife and broken an engagement to a would-be fifth. The jewel in what’s left of his crown faces a billion-dollar lawsuit.

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Putting the ‘Tech’ in Spend Management Techniques

Speaker: Wayne Spivak, President and CFO of SBA * Consulting Ltd., Industry Writer, Public Speaker

If you’re lost in the world of spend management needs and your GAP analysis is lacking perspective on the future state of your business performance, listen up! With the advancement of technology, the implementation of spend management best practices and concrete GAP analyses is more streamlined and accessible than ever before. And while this may sound like great news for you and your clients, it won’t be worthwhile unless you have the latest techniques to back up your ambitions!

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Longform links: safer experiences

Abnormal Returns

Books An excerpt from "Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most" by Adam Alter. (theatlantic.com) Five insights from "Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World" by Henry Grabar. (nextbigideaclub.com) David Marchese talks with Peter Attia, MD about his book “Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity.” (nytimes.com) A Q&A with Theresa MacPhail author of "Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World.

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#FA Success Ep 335: Systematizing Succession And New Partner Transitions In A $1.5B Ensemble Enterprise, With Timothy Wyman

Nerd's Eye View

Welcome back to the 335th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Tim Wyman. Tim is a Managing Partner for the Center for Financial Planning, a hybrid advisory firm based in Southfield, Michigan, that oversees $1.5 billion in assets under management for 1,000 client households. What's unique about Tim, though, is how, as a second-generation partner, he helped redesign the firm’s organizational structure from siloed advisors to an ensemble practice,

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This Week on TRB

The Reformed Broker

Reminder: The Ritholtz crew is coming out to Austin, Texas next month. Details about how you can meet with us here. And if you haven’t subscribed yet, don’t wait. Check it out below or wherever fine podcasts are played. These are the most read posts on the site this week, in case you missed it: . The post This Week on TRB appeared first on The Reformed Broker.

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Identifying Emerging Managers

The Big Picture

I am moderating a fascinating panel today at Bloomberg’s Hedge Fund Start-Up Conference 2023. It is a great collection of newer hedge fund managers who have put up impressive numbers consistently over the past few years. The challenge for investors in alternatives is twofold: The first is identifying those managers who can consistently generate alpha in excess of fees; and the second, is to find them early enough so they are still willing to accept your capital.

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Connect, Care, Convert: Secrets to Establishing Trust with Niche Markets and Turning Them Into Clients

Speaker: Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, The Money Coach®

Niche markets represent a huge opportunity for the financial services industry in America. From college students and women to communities of color and low-to-moderate-income households, niche populations have specialized financial needs – but they often underutilize many valuable financial products and services. How can you better connect with these consumers?

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Thursday links: sussing out the truth

Abnormal Returns

Markets The market's biggest stocks are having a big year. (axios.com) The S&P 500 Top 50 returned 3.97% in May 2023. (on.spdji.com) How major asset classes performed in May 2023. (capitalspectator.com) Strategy Cullen Roche, "The beauty of indexing is that you own the haystack rather than worrying about the needles." (disciplinefunds.com) There's nothing magical about dividend investing.

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Recession Watch Update

Calculated Risk

Way back in 2013, I wrote a post " Predicting the Next Recession. In that 2013 post, I wrote: The next recession will probably be caused by one of the following (from least likely to most likely): 3) An exogenous event such as a pandemic , significant military conflict, disruption of energy supplies for any reason, a major natural disaster (meteor strike, super volcano, etc), and a number of other low probability reasons.

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Clips From Today’s Halftime Report

The Reformed Broker

ChargePoint upgraded to buy at Bank of America from CNBC. The post Clips From Today’s Halftime Report appeared first on The Reformed Broker.

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

The Big Picture

My back-to-work morning train reads: • Why Are Markets So Calm? It’s Revenge of the Quant Funds : Firms that use computers to determine buy and sell signals have been loading up while other investors sit back. ( Wall Street Journal ) • Crypto Is Staging a Major Rebound. How It Survived a $3 Trillion Crash. Bitcoin and other tokens have rebounded while big companies and funds continue to plow capital into cryptocurrencies. ( Barron’s ) • Five Things That Could Knock Nvidia Down : Which is

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Chit Chat: Elevating the Month-End Close Process Through Automation – Lancaster Leaf

Speaker: Raul Perez, VP and CFO of Lancaster Leaf

Lancaster Leaf Tobacco Co Inc. is a subsidiary of Universal Corporation, the leading global leaf tobacco supplier. Lancaster Leaf supplies virtually all the major cigar manufacturers in the U.S. with filler, binder, and wrapper, and exports filler, binder, and wrapper to international cigar manufacturers. This all could mean a complicated month-end close - before automation.

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Wednesday links: unsustainable business models

Abnormal Returns

AI The AI stock mania phase is here. (herbgreenberg.substack.com) How big tech companies are investing in AI startups. (news.crunchbase.com) Strategy The stock market loves disinflation. (awealthofcommonsense.com) Tactical allocation funds have failed miserably. (morningstar.com) Energy Berkshire Hathaway ($BRK.A) now owns 24.9% of Occidental Petroluem ($OXY).

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BLS: Job Openings Increased to 10.1 million in April

Calculated Risk

From the BLS: Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary The number of job openings edged up to 10.1 million on the last business day of April , the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the month, the number of hires changed little at 6.1 million. Total separations decreased to 5.7 million. Within separations, quits (3.8 million) changed little, while layoffs and discharges (1.6 million) decreased. emphasis added The following graph shows job openings (black line), hires (dark blue)

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The Best Time to Buy Stocks

A Wealth of Common Sense

The top 10% own nearly 90% of the stocks. That’s the bad news. The good news is more people now own stocks in some capacity. That hasn’t always been the case. The 1929 crash that kicked off the Great Depression was a massacre. The stock market fell more than 80%. Plenty of people got wiped out but it wasn’t as widespread as you would think.

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

The Big Picture

  The transcript from this week’s, MiB: John Hope Bryant, Operation Hope , is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on iTunes , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , YouTube , and Bloomberg. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ ANNOUNCER: This is Masters in Business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio.

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The CPA Firm Growth Strategy: From Compliance to Consulting

Speaker: Rita Keller - President of Keller Advisors, LLC

You've worked diligently and have built a glowing reputation grounded in your excellent skills in tax, accounting, and auditing. You're known as the “go-to” person when a client is faced with tax and financial decisions. You have a very successful firm -- but that’s not enough. Profession leaders are urging you to diversify your financial skills and distance yourself from compliance work.