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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

Barry Ritholtz

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. And ev all the sort of compliance, client service, legal, kind of, everything was done sort of on the side by investment people. So I was at Harvard.

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He’d teach them about a variety of things going on in the world – science, math, archaeology, literature. Then, to get what’s in circulation off the street, he suggests that governments give consumers incentives to turn in those bills – so bring in a $100 bill and get more than its face value deposited to your bank account.

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Leveraging Structured Notes To Differentiate A Solo Practice

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For the most part, we also have, out of those 195, a lot of those are also some legacy clients that have been around for a very long time, that maybe have brokerage accounts that are no longer advisory, right, so, but I am including that in there. Or how do we work around a concentrated stock position, right? Anh: Right.

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Restructuring Compensation And Roles To Align For Growth

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You do the math and you’re like, “Okay, well, an advisor can handle about 100 clients, an associate advisor can help with some of those clients, you can leverage maybe an associate advisor with a couple of advisors, but there’s a capacity limit for each of the roles.” And so, we pivoted to more of a service team.

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Filtering Down To The Most Impact-Weighted Work To Add Value

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And if you went through the math, it gave us hundreds of hours that a typical firm would spend. I’m going to launch an RIA just so that I cannot be worried compliance-wise that I’m giving advice that I shouldn’t be.” And so I was, “Okay, I don’t want to do this the wrong way.

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Using Detailed Meeting Checklists to Drive Referral Growth

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And that was very hard to do because when you’re running a Fortune 100 company, the compliance is to the lowest common denominator. And you start doing the math of the staff, and you’re like, “I can hire people for less than this.” And that wasn’t scalable. Matthew: Exactly.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

Let me say what your compliance wouldn’t allow you to say. RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. And at the time, I was managing Protege Partners as a hedge fund of funds. We were short subprime mortgages with John Paulson.