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Monday links: a cult of personality

Abnormal Returns

bloomberg.com) You need a strategy to survive the commoditization of the asset management industry. imports from China have been declining since 2016. (institutionalinvestor.com) Interest in forex trading has been in decline for awhile now. philbak.substack.com) China The percentage of U.S.

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Tales from the Dark Side

The Big Picture

Our previous discussions (debates really) were over the traditional model of brokerage I push back against versus the fee-based fiduciary asset management I embrace. This made me chuckle, as we had discussed this level of unsuitable and inappropriate asset management for years, with me offering an endless parade of examples.

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From Unprofitable To $115M AUM: Reinventing A 2nd Generation Advisory Business By Finding The Right Niche

Nerd's Eye View

But as market trends changed (with the performance of this asset class falling behind large-cap stocks during the 2010s) and clients entered retirement (often consolidating their investment management with 1 advisor), Eliot Rose started losing clients, eventually becoming unprofitable in 2016, the year Jason became president of the firm.

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Transcript: Mike Green, Simplify Asset Management

The Big Picture

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Mike Greene, Simplify Asset Management , is below. We have to pay attention to this, and we have to understand why this is potentially a risky asset. Precisely because we look at it and we’re like, wait a second, if this risk goes wrong, not only do I lose my assets, but I lose my job.

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DoL’s Retirement Security Rule & PTE 2020-02 Amendment: What Advisers Need to Know Now About Giving Rollover Advice After Sept 23, 2024

Nerd's Eye View

In practice, the DoL's Final Rule means that financial advisers who advise clients about rolling over assets from an employee retirement account like a 401(k) plan into an IRA are now subject to ERISA fiduciary obligations.

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MiB: Bill Browder on Finance, Murder and Justice

The Big Picture

He discovered an immense amount of corruption, with the oligarchs who were running these still partly state-owned companies helping themselves to assets and capital on an immense scale. The Global Magnitsky Act of 2016 authorizes the U.S. A transcript of our conversation is available here Tuesday.

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Nobody Knows Anything, FedWatch Edition

The Big Picture

From the perspective of an asset management and financial planning firm, the challenge is getting people to ignore the day-to-day noise in favor of thinking about where prices will be a decade hence. Rather than accept the volatility of month-to-month economic datapoints — NFP, Consumer Spending, Manufacturing, Inflation, etc.

Economics 363