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Holding Onto Your Marketing Budget in a Downturn

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Make sure you have the right math and language to explain results driven by direct and indirect marketing spend. Leaders under economic pressure will likely prioritize short-term measures of growth, so there will be a bias toward marketing tactics with a clearer return on investment, such as search, social, and e-commerce.

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Oil & Gas Labor Shortages

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Renewable energy by nature demands different talent pools with more advanced technical and math skills to help guide the initiatives. This includes initiatives like diversity, equity, and inclusion – especially given that women account for less than 25% of oil and gas industry employees (as of 2020). A Need to Think Differently.

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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: Ramit Sethi

Barry Ritholtz

That’s one part financial freedom, one part prioritization of your life, and one part less stress and worries about financial matters. He’s not like that at all, which probably accounts for a lot of his success. It’s really a very thoughtful and intelligent approach to thinking about spending. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Finding Rollover Opportunities In Transitions After Layoffs

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So 1,800 clients, just north of 400 million, so if I do my napkin math, typical client is $200,000 to $250,000 of assets under management. It’s not uncommon for us to see million-dollar accounts these days. ” But I know just the math of that is hard. We need to prioritize our time. John: Yeah.

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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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How To Accelerate Client Growth As An Advice-Only Firm

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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. And a little bit of accountability, making sure that people are doing their implementation because they’re the ones responsible for it.

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