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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

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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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Leveraging Structured Notes To Differentiate A Solo Practice

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Or how do we work around a concentrated stock position, right? So, compliance requires us to keep our financial-planning practice and our estate-planning practice separate. So, it’s still separate and compliance does not allow us to cover estate-planning fees. This is part of the advisory firm? 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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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.” Matthew: Exactly.

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He’d teach them about a variety of things going on in the world – science, math, archaeology, literature. Its infrastructure is highly concentrated in China – 70 percent of all mining capacity is located there and controlled by four mining companies in China. Samantha and Nick would boot up “Jack” every couple of days.

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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 we can run all the math about how to do that.” ” Natalie: Totally.

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Bitcoin uses math — and math equations that anyone can solve and see — to provide this cash-like feature. Speaking of math, doing it helps explain that big billion dollar-plus number. In May of 2016, the FBI reported that ransomware would top $1 billion that year — they estimated $1.6 Back here in the U.S. —

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