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A second guess would have been a healthcare company. And you know, just simple things like, hey, the value of tax loss harvesting, how do you make that apparent to people? BUCKLEY: Well, the way we’re built, being client owned, it’s the way we return profits to our clients. RITHOLTZ: Which it was. BUCKLEY: Yeah.
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