October, 2019

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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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Animal Spirits: CEO Departures

The Irrelevant Investor

Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by YCharts. Mention Animal Spirits to receive 20% off (*New YCharts users only) On today’s show we discuss The least amount of bulls in 20 years Some data on buybacks Mortgaging the future over and over and over The alternative to buybacks (this is so good) Facebook news, lol Remaking American capitalism Hollywood and China Explaining rotten tomatoes ( a video explanation ) How to get a better deal from real estate agents The economic case for paternity

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Healthy Returns: Sustainable Investing in the Health Care Sector

Brown Advisory

Healthy Returns: Sustainable Investing in the Health Care Sector ajackson Mon, 10/28/2019 - 14:59 Our Large-Cap Sustainable Growth portfolio managers discuss how they have approached the health care sector as sustainable investors. Some of the most compelling investments over the next decades, in our view, will be in companies that help solve some of society’s thorniest challenges—resource scarcity, chronic health crises, access to clean water and climate change, to name a few.

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5 Marketing Tips for Financial Advisors For Their Homepage Video – Building Trust before the Intro Call

Midstream Marketing

One of the major points that I’ve been telling my wealth management and financial planning clients for years is that, almost more so than any other industry, theirs is a business that lives and dies on trust. You’re not just trying to help someone make better decisions – you’re literally trying to get them to trust you to secure their financial future.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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National Organization on Disability: Leading Disability Employer

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The National Organization on Disability (NOD) Leading Disability Employer seal recognizes companies that demonstrate exemplary employment practices for differently-abled populations.

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Animal Spirits Talk Your Book: Crossing Wall Street

The Irrelevant Investor

On today's Animal Spirits Talk Your Book, we talk with the great Eddy Elfenbein. Topics discussed Eddy's blog The buy list The ETF The Elfenbein theory to explain the entire stock market Listen here Follow us on Facebook , Instagram , and YouTube. Check out our t-shirts, stickers, coffee mugs, and other swag here. Subscribe here: iTunes Android Google Play Stitcher Spotify The post Animal Spirits Talk Your Book: Crossing Wall Street appeared first on The Irrelevant Investor.

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The Most Bullish Signal in the World

The Irrelevant Investor

The S&P 500 is about to open at an all-time high. Here are some numbers: This will be the 777th intra-day all-time high since 1982* All-time highs have happened on just over 8% of all days The average 1-year return is 10.2%. The average 1-year return following an all-time high is 11.5%. This does not include dividends So everyone is bullish right?

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Healthy Returns: Sustainable Investing in the Health Care Sector

Brown Advisory

Healthy Returns: Sustainable Investing in the Health Care Sector. ajackson. Mon, 10/28/2019 - 14:59. Our Large-Cap Sustainable Growth portfolio managers discuss how they have approached the health care sector as sustainable investors. Some of the most compelling investments over the next decades, in our view, will be in companies that help solve some of society’s thorniest challenges—resource scarcity, chronic health crises, access to clean water and climate change, to name a few.

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These Are the Goods

The Irrelevant Investor

Articles A lot of things do not revert to the mean. By Morgan Housel How can more money cause problems By Blair duQuesnay If you are an aspiring influencer your number one goal should be to look for a different career. By Ramp Capital The hardest part about owning a concentrated portfolio isn’t financial risk but thinking about your positions too much.

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Avoiding Lease Accounting Pitfalls in 2025: Lessons Learned from Spreadsheet Errors

Speaker: Abdi Ali, Sr. Lease Accounting Consultant

Join this insightful webinar with industry expert Abdi Ali, who will discuss the challenges that can arise from managing lease accounting with spreadsheets! He will share real-world examples of errors, compliance issues, and risks that may be present within your spreadsheets. Learn how these tools, while useful, can sometimes lead to inefficiencies that affect your time, resources, and peace of mind.

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Podcast: Preparing to Sell Your Financial Advisory Firm With Ron Carson (Listen Now)

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Preparing to Sell Your Financial Advisory Firm? Ron Carson is one of my heroes and mentors. He’s the founder of Carson Group Holdings, he has grown Carson Group to over $15 billion in assets under advisement, he’s a New York Times bestselling author of Avalanche and The Sustainable Edge. In this episode, he’ll help us understand how advisors can prepare to sell their financial advisory firm, including: What’s the selling landscape like for advisory firms today?

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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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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?

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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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Back to Basics with Reconciliations

Join us in this webinar, where we share best practices on how to think about the reconciliation work each month, when best to do reconciliations, how they should be prepared, and some common pitfalls to avoid. Learning Objectives: This course objective is to understand how to properly prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations and its impact on the financial statements.

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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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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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2024 Lending Outlook: Innovations and Evolutions in the Financial Sector

As we step into 2024, the lending landscape evolves rapidly with technology, regulations, and market dynamics driving change. For banks and financial institutions to stay competitive and meet the evolving needs of their customers, these drivers must be understood and engaged with. Lenders can anticipate significant transformation fueled by technological advancements, regulatory shifts, and changing consumer behaviors.

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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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Five Sources of Alpha in an Aging Market Cycle

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Five Sources of Alpha in an Aging Market Cycle ajackson Fri, 10/18/2019 - 10:30 For the past decade, investors have enjoyed a long climb up the “wall of worry.” Perhaps enjoyed is the wrong word: Investors have weathered European debt crises, a peek over a “fiscal cliff” in the U.S., an oil-market collapse, and an undeniable escalation in geopolitical and trade tensions around the world.

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Five Sources of Alpha in an Aging Market Cycle

Brown Advisory

Five Sources of Alpha in an Aging Market Cycle. ajackson. Fri, 10/18/2019 - 10:30. For the past decade, investors have enjoyed a long climb up the “wall of worry.” Perhaps enjoyed is the wrong word: Investors have weathered European debt crises, a peek over a “fiscal cliff” in the U.S., an oil-market collapse, and an undeniable escalation in geopolitical and trade tensions around the world.

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Trading Behavior

The Irrelevant Investor

Vanguard recently conducted a study where they examined the trading behavior of 8.4 million households from their U.S. retail business as well as their defined contribution business. Collectively, they represent $1.5 trillion in financial assets as of December 2018. Here are some of the key findings: Only about 1 in 7 households traded in a given year.

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Banking on Loyalty: Holistic Financial Advice for Unparalleled Business Growth

Speaker: Joe Buhrmann, MBA, CFP®, CLU®, ChFC® Senior Financial Planning Practice Management Consultant eMoney Advisor

During an era of evolving consumer preferences, the banking sector is undergoing a profound shift. As customers continue to broaden their perspectives, banking professionals must support their customers' financial wellness by providing holistic financial advice that aligns with individual goals and circumstances. Without adapting, financial institutions will find that loyalty may crumble amid uncertainty.

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Animal Spirits: The Undies Indicator

The Irrelevant Investor

Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by YCharts. Mention Animal Spirits to receive 20% off (*New YCharts users only) On today’s show we discuss Media's terrifying debt problem Video will soon look like the bad old days Apple splurges on A Christmas Carol Netflix going all in on kids programming What Jeff Bezos wants Is Amazon Unstoppable? China and all the takes ESPN forbids discussion of it Investors continue to pull money out of stocks Undees, champagne, and RVs Why aren't mortgage rates

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Passive Products and Active Users

The Irrelevant Investor

The 20 largest ETFs have $1.556 trillion in assets. While the indexes they track are passive, their users are anything but. Over the previous twelve months, the total trading volume in these products was a whopping $11.529 trillion. A recent paper from S&P Dow Jones Indices takes a deeper dive into trades linked to some of the most widely followed indexes.

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Look Away

The Irrelevant Investor

GMO's most recent 7-year forecast does not paint an especially pretty picture for stocks or for bonds. If these prognostications for U.S. large stocks come to pass, it would be just the 4th time that they experienced a -3.3% real total return over a 7-year period. GMO is hardly alone in their forecast for lower future returns, which is at least partly why endowments are so heavily allocated towards alternative strategies.

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Animal Spirits Re-Kindled: Malcolm Gladwell

The Irrelevant Investor

On today's Animal Spirits Re-Kindled, we talk about Malcolm Gladwell's first two books, The Tipping Point , and Blink On today's show, we discuss: Malcolm Gladwell blow back From his first two books, what aged the best and what aged the worst? Favorite quotes, studies, and anecdotes? Today's Tipping Points, and much more Listen here The post Animal Spirits Re-Kindled: Malcolm Gladwell appeared first on The Irrelevant Investor.

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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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These Are the Goods

The Irrelevant Investor

Articles The disposable income for all Americans rose nearly 75% between 1929 and 1950. By Ben Carlson July 4, 1933, is arguably the day that data visualization became a permanent part of mainstream media. By Priceonomics Active managers are still the ones who set market prices By Klement On Investing While I would place John in the top 5% of all people I have ever worked with, I would place Steve in the bottom third.

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Is The Fed Managing Stock Market Sentiment?

The Irrelevant Investor

In the most recent episode of What Are Your Thoughts, Josh said, "The Fed is managing stock market sentiment more than it's managing its mandate" [link] Fact check, maybe? I know people will see this quote as proof of something, but I really don't think this is controversial. I mean, why wouldn't he watch markets very carefully? There are plenty of investors who agree with Josh that the Fed's real mandate is stable (stock) prices.

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Tell Me What You See

The Irrelevant Investor

The Dow opened the 20th century trading at 68. It closed at 11,497, a 16,875% increase, which explodes to 1.8 million percent with dividends. But of course nobody got these returns, and the ones that achieved even a fraction of them had to endure unthinkable pain along the way. Consider that: The low in 1932 was the lowest prices of the 20th century.