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What’s the ‘Real’ Value of a Financial Advisor’s Business?

Diamond Consultants

Here are 3 valuation scenarios to address that curiosity. Focus Financial Partners, the largest investor in the independent space, is being taken private at a $7B valuation. Prolific RIA acquirer CI Financial recently monetized a stake in their business at a $5B valuation. Those are some eye-popping numbers.

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

The Big Picture

And then in 1982, Dean Witter recruited me to join them and to really start managing what was their fledgling hedge fund practice, which was really with CTAs back in that era, and then evolved into, you know, more macro style funds. Maybe we’ll get down to 4% or 5%, but that’s the number the Fed doesn’t like.

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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

The Big Picture

Heather comes from with a fascinating background, having previously been in a number of other places, most notably Morningstar, and, and she has a very specific approach to investment management and thinking about stock selection. They do a number of things at Diamond Hill that many other investment shops don’t.

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Transcript: David Einhorn, Greenlight Capital

The Big Picture

And since that happened, I don’t know, about four or five years ago, the fund has been putting up great numbers, outperforming doing really, really well. So then I just started interviewing with companies as they came on, on the, on-campus recruiting to see what, what I could find. 00:03:03 I got rejected at all of them really.

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Transcript: Joanne Bradford

The Big Picture

She has a number of investments as as really a entrepreneur and a venture investor. I went in there and the valuation was below a billion dollars. And at two years the valuation was $13 billion. And so the magic number was $388 a month. That they could add to PayPal’s numbers. He’s great. One to 13.

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Transcript: Brad Gerstner

The Big Picture

00:17:50 You wanna know why Dara reported for Uber that again, their number of employees was down quarter of over quarter. It’s 10 blue links, but it’s an infinite number of blue links. So remember data and data infrastructure, that is the number one primitive to ai. It was about $170 million valuation.

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Spin City: The New Wave of Deconglomeratization

Brown Advisory

Middling stock performance and clunky operations make it difficult for such companies to recruit or retain top talent. These factors have combined to drive a number of spinoffs in the industrial sector of late, and in many cases these worked out very well for shareholders.

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