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Brian Hamburger has been one of the leading authorities in the world of registered investment advisories, broker-dealers, SEC regulatory compliance. And I would constantly hear them frustrated by the compliance department. HAMBURGER: They were just blaming compliance for everything they couldn’t do. RITHOLTZ: Right.
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They serve a different client segment, 00:05:46 [Speaker Changed] A little bit higher end. So you still spend a lot of time with your clients, which you do at, at every level of the organization. 00:08:01 [Speaker Changed] And then from AssetMark, in October, 2023, you’re recruited to become CEO at Orion.
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I mean, essentially what no one understood in the industry and still don’t understand today in the real estate industry is that when appraisers doing an appraisal for the buyer that’s getting a mortgage, their client is actually the bank. RITHOLTZ: Right, that’s right. RITHOLTZ: 44, I mean, it’s there for the taking.
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