The CFO College

APRIL 8, 2021

You’ll also want to stay current on successful brands, along with trending operations, metrics, and benchmarking. Major soft skills involve time management, effective communication, writing, reliability and responsiveness towards clients, organization, project management, and your ability to own and address your problems and mistakes.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Michael Kitces is Head of Planning Strategy at Buckingham Wealth Partners , a turnkey wealth management services provider supporting thousands of independent financial advisors. Estate planning is commonly a big point of discussion, as well. That if we only focus on the estate plan, we’re missing the other half of the equation.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

As 2022 comes to a close, I am once again so thankful to all of you, the ever-growing number of readers who continue to regularly visit this Nerd’s Eye View Blog (and share the content with your friends and colleagues, which we greatly appreciate!). Many advisors are accustomed to using verbal communication with clients (e.g.,

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 17, 2022

How firms can best leverage their internal data to improve the number of client referrals they receive. We also have a number of articles on retirement planning: While weak stock and bond market performance has challenged advisors and their clients this year, these trends have likely increased the ‘safe’ withdrawal rate for new retirees.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: If the S&P is your benchmark, which it isn’t for these pools of capital. RITHOLTZ: What should be their benchmark? So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. So what do you use for a benchmark? 14, 15% a year? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So, you know, we, we, we got involved and created a benchmark, a commodity indices at the time. If you look at the, if you look at the filing and you look at the size of the company and the revenue, the entire yearly revenue numbers would be a bad quarter right? She left there, she became a crisis communications expert.

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