This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
As a result, its often incumbent upon the retiring advisor to either accept a discounted valuation for the book and/or show a great deal of flexibility in how their next gen ultimately takes the reigns of the business. It also puts money in the pocket of the next gen because they would receive a portion from the recruiting deal.
And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven. Let me say what your compliance wouldn’t allow you to say.
I mean, I don’t — RITHOLTZ: So this is really devious recruitment. WEAVER: — you know, my teaching and recruiting. And since we look at both private and public markets, what do you think of in terms of valuation? WEAVER: But if we can hit our target — RITHOLTZ: We all have compliance departments.
He has a very interesting approach to thinking about market valuations and strategies and when to deploy capital, when to go with the crowd, when to lean against the crowd, and has amassed and excellent track record. Second part of our framework is valuation fundamental work. Well, that means valuations are probably too high.
With recruiting particularly active at Morgan Stanley and UBS, advisors demonstrated that it’s still the right model for many of them. That is, placing greater focus on building a business with the end in mind, even if it meant eschewing a significant recruitment package.
One, when people have asked me to compare and contrast today versus 2007, 2008, what you hear from a lot of people is, yes, there’s some fairly heady valuations. So we have a pretty well tried and tested campus recruitment approach. So we have a tried and tested kind of campus recruitment approach.
And we’d sort of turn that into a valuation business. MILLER: Well actually I thought, leading up to the great financial crisis, I thought to myself, we’re going to be out of business within a couple of years because nobody wanted an independent valuation. What are the, you know, I’d literally have it in my handheld.
ASNESS: Well, I was striving for uncorrelated, but then the compliance officer in my head is saying sometimes it doesn’t come out to zero all the time. And it’s really not a compliance reason, I hope it’s more of an intellectual honesty reason. RITHOLTZ: Meaning it would be a recruitment challenge. ASNESS: Yes.
These 10% are what’s driving the entire valuation. The other thing that’s different is, is that today the companies with the most spectacular valuation levels are private. We’ll buy the rest of it at a, a full valuation, which we did. And I said, I can just tell you that is the wrong price.
But I think the reality is right now, we just have an overhang from, I certainly in my world, I can speak to healthcare and FinTech, a number of companies going public and then disappointing or valuation just being excessive compared to the maturity of the businesses. That’s is how in part you differentiate yourself. And drug costs.
Literally the first check-in to Robinhood, which went public in 2021 at about a $34 billion valuation. RITHOLTZ: He was the first (inaudible) in round B at the higher valuation. Is it about the valuation? Back then I was Wallstrip was like a 400K valuation. RITHOLTZ: Valuation didn’t make much of a difference.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 36,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content