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You Heard It Here First: Best Of 2018’s Monday Conversations

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And while the enthusiasm is good, according to Bresniker, the usage is sloppy and tends to obscure the fact that 1) there are many different types of AI, and the one to which we are specifically referring matters; and 2) AI is all math, and its outputs are only as good as the data sources it draws from and the programmers that set its rules.

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Transcript: Linda Gibson, CEO PGIM Quantitative Solutions

Barry Ritholtz

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

Barry Ritholtz

And my dad had always said, as many young kids get this advice, doctor, lawyer, accountant, engineer. SALISBURY: And accountant seemed like a reasonable option. And I kind of stumbled my way into accounting. That background of being an accountant was just great bedrock training. Risk appetite was changing.

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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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Using Detailed Meeting Checklists to Drive Referral Growth

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” Matthew: It’s very risk management based. And most people have very underserved in a risk management perspective, so you can place the right insurance products along with investments and get a whole financial plan going. You’re obtaining clients. And that wasn’t scalable.

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How To Accelerate Client Growth As An Advice-Only Firm

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It’s why we tend to also do investment management, or also do something to implement. And not because it’s not necessarily profitable to give advice for clients at those price points, but that in order to do it and make the math work, you need a lot of clients. I can’t open accounts for them. Go rebalance this.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

Barry Ritholtz

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. I remember telling myself, why would anyone invest in mutual funds when you can buy an ETF instead? BERRUGA: Yeah.