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Customer Concentration

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Customer concentration had become an ever-bigger problem as borrowing increased. Pricing pressure, inventory requirements, and product development costs had greatly affected profitability. Significant Findings and Recommendations: Reduce Customer Concentration. The loss of every customer is painful. Initial contact –.

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101 Ways Financial Advisors Can Add Value For Their Clients

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Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. Another area where advisor expertise can add value for clients is in the decision-making process surrounding employee stock options or an otherwise concentrated stock position.

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2022 Best-Of Highlights From The Nerd’s Eye View Blog

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Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. He previously worked at a financial planning firm in Bethesda, Maryland, and as a journalist covering the banking and insurance industries. He can be reached at [email protected]. Read more of Adam’s articles here.

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Amazon’s Retail Swiss Army Knife

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Department store employment has stayed flat, a stat that is somewhat misleading given the loss of nearly 60,000 jobs in the sector earlier this year and ongoing losses over the last several years, as this chart illustrates. Department of Labor, retail employment remains in a deep funk, accounting for only 2.8 percent of all jobs added.

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Using Detailed Meeting Checklists to Drive Referral Growth

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Michael: So, it sounds like part of the challenge was, you live in a large company environment where, as is common for a lot of them, they organized study groups of top advisors, of top producers, of those that are doing well and growing well, and driving the business profitably. In fact, we probably would have been much more profitable.

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Transcript: Mathieu Chabran

Barry Ritholtz

The exposure you get in investment banking, I was a leveraged finance banker by background. CHABRAN: Maybe because I come from a leverage finance background, as I told you, I tend always to focus on the downside. I think it was a great training. I think we learned a lot.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

BITTERLY MICHELL: Not in leveraged, no, not at all, give more …. And so, while you can see that concentration in markets, and sales, and trading, once I started really working with our private bank in a meaningful way, I was then able to lead teams of investment counselors and investors. BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management.