CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Michael Kitces is Head of Planning Strategy at Buckingham Strategic Wealth , a turnkey wealth management services provider supporting thousands of independent financial advisors. An alternate approach, however, is for the advisor to focus their client service proposition on the planning needs of a specific target client. Team Kitces.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Michael Kitces is Head of Planning Strategy at Buckingham Strategic Wealth , a turnkey wealth management services provider supporting thousands of independent financial advisors. In the world of financial advisors, it’s common to value an advisory firm as a multiple of its revenue. Author: Michael Kitces. Team Kitces.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Michael Kitces is Head of Planning Strategy at Buckingham Strategic Wealth , a turnkey wealth management services provider supporting thousands of independent financial advisors. directly via email: Resources Featured In This Episode: Looking for sample client service calendars, marketing plans, and more? Author: Michael Kitces.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

on Friday, the department store had already sold 200,000 coats, and was on track to sell more than 1 million coats, sweaters and fleece jackets by the end of the weekend. Well, on the profit side of things, that remains to be seen. It was certainly good news for Macy’s – by 7 a.m.

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CSC Advisors

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It can also come from an offer to sell or merge businesses. An offer to sell your business can be a welcome surprise. If you're considering a proposal to sell your business, read on to learn how these advisors can help. What Is M&A Advisory? Responding to offers of buying and selling. Company valuation.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What’s unique about Anh, though, is how, as a solo advisor, she differentiates her firm by leveraging the combination of a high-touch concierge approach to client service with a unique investment management approach through the use of very carefully chosen structured notes to differentiate her portfolio design from other advisors.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 23, 2022

We also have a number of articles on spending and budgeting: Why advisors might want to consider using a client service calendar to organize the wide range of services they provide for clients throughout the year. Another key factor, though, is autonomy, which has led to growth in the popularity of independent advisory models.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

David Conrod, what a fascinating career in the world of capital raising and private equity from Guggenheim Partners to FocusPoint Capital, he really has seen just a little bit of everything and is very, very knowledgeable about how that side of the investment world works. I remember a drive with an advisory board meeting from Agra to Jaipur.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

He, he really sees all sides of, of the elephant and is capable of describing it in a way that I thought was both fascinating and, and informative. We were originally very equity heavy back in the day, and we made a lot of investments on the fixed income side. How did you find your way to that side of the street?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 5, 2024

So I saw many companies then taxed and financial services. I started there on the convertible bond arbitrage desk, and then we started capital structure arbitrage, which meant we were, you know, buying or selling credit and, and against that buying and selling equities. So we took the other side of that, of that trade.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

So the sister index focusing on the prices that producing service (INAUDIBLE). RITHOLTZ: When did the investment management side of the business began? And it began outside of financial services. clarify — the research side of Morningstar has been very clear on that expense case. I was on the Producer Price Index.

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CFO Thought Leader

AUGUST 27, 2023

Read More “They had been looking for a CFO at the time, but I was really enjoying my work on the venture capital side of things,” recalls Cirulis, who adds that the arrival of the pandemic changed everything. So, that’s what he did—and what ended up happening was that he started selling more sandwiches than antiques.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Michael Kitces is Head of Planning Strategy at Buckingham Strategic Wealth , a turnkey wealth management services provider supporting thousands of independent financial advisors. directly via email: Resources Featured In This Episode: Looking for sample client service calendars, marketing plans, and more? Author: Michael Kitces.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Why it is important for advisory firms to conduct an audit of their tech stack and the steps they can take to conduct the exercise. For instance, a 2022 Vanguard study found that consumers have different preferences for the planning services they want to be completed by a human and those to be done by a digital solution.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Michael Kitces is Head of Planning Strategy at Buckingham Strategic Wealth , a turnkey wealth management services provider supporting thousands of independent financial advisors. directly via email: Resources Featured In This Episode: Looking for sample client service calendars, marketing plans, and more? Author: Michael Kitces.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Unlike investment advice, advisory firms are usually not required to create policies and procedures around properly given tax advice (unless they specifically employ designated tax practitioners), so there is often no clear-cut way to ensure tax advice is given correctly. Read more of Ben’s articles here. Read More +. Steven Jarvis.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As a starting point, it’s important to recognize that while conversations in the financial services industry over the last decade have entertained the idea that technology (e.g., The Power (And Limitations) Of Automation In Advisory Firms [11:37]. Authors: Michael Kitces. Team Kitces.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Tom Rampulla, Vanguard’s Financial Advisor Services Director , is below. He is the managing director of Vanguard’s Financial Advisor Services Division, where he began back in 2002. THOMAS RAMPULLA, MANAGING DIRECTOR, FINANCIAL ADVISOR SERVICES DIVISION, VANGUARD: Thanks, Barry.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

RITHOLTZ: You know, what’s really interesting is everybody tends to think of Wall Street and investing and finance in terms of the investing side. But the business side is really intriguing. The business side is really quite fascinating and somewhat overlooked. Hey, I want to do venture capital.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Michael Kitces is Head of Planning Strategy at Buckingham Strategic Wealth , a turnkey wealth management services provider supporting thousands of independent financial advisors. directly via email: Resources Featured In This Episode: Looking for sample client service calendars, marketing plans, and more? Author: Michael Kitces.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

Jawad Mian publishes a fascinating macro advisory letter that is read by many of the most well-known and influential investors on not just Wall Street but around the world. MIAN: So Stray Reflections is a macro advisory and community that works with portfolio managers, CIOs around the world. Tell us a little bit about your research.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Michael Kitces is Head of Planning Strategy at Buckingham Strategic Wealth , a turnkey wealth management services provider supporting thousands of independent financial advisors. directly via email: Resources Featured In This Episode: Looking for sample client service calendars, marketing plans, and more? Author: Michael Kitces.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

However, in order to accommodate a wide range of clients with wildly diverse needs, firms often need to provide a myriad of services to address those needs. As individuals increasingly rely on the internet to find the right services to meet their needs, more clients are also seeking and engaging with advisors digitally. Team Kitces.

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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. And in recent years, there’s been this big growth of basically like lead generation services. Author: Michael Kitces. Team Kitces.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 28, 2022

They get good service, not fabulous service, but good service at low cost, on a very unreliable basis. He spent the first 25 years of his career on the active side of the street. So he was able to stay with the admin side. Hey, maybe you don’t go public, maybe you don’t sell the firm.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

00:02:59 [Speaker Changed] I was not, I was waitressing one summer, my final summer after my senior year and a friend called and said, I just interviewed with the financial services company. It was Mass Financial Services. Didn’t really think about going into financial services. So I wasn’t on the insurance side.

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The Charity CFO

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Chyla is the Founder and CEO of CNRG Accounting Advisory. For more information on how to get your nonprofit financially established so that you can achieve your goals, visit CNRG Accounting Advisory @ [link]. If my computer dies one more time during an intake session, we’re not gonna, like, be able to do services.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 29, 2022

While newer advisors are faced with infinite pathways in the financial services industry, it can often be easy to focus solely on getting ahead professionally while putting aside personal interests and self-care. Certain strategies for paving career paths and balancing work-life priorities will work for some but not others. Team Kitces.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 18, 2023

Most guys and gals who get into the business of working at a hedge fund, never mind you know founding and running one, you I think there’s a pretty typical track where they’re finance majors at top schools, they work at an investment bank or an advisory bank, sometimes at a law firm, and then they make their way into the investing realm.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

These are the guys that are on the other side of the trade looking to pick up dollars for 50 cents, and very often they’re the only bidder when everybody else is kind of freaked out about what’s going on. Yeah, [ Panossian ] 00:04:04 It was, he had a very strong team around him on the equity side.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: Because it is a much tougher game, particularly adding value on the short side than it used to be. I used to say that the guys who ran hedge funds were the one who woke up on the wrong side of the bed in the morning and felt like they just had to short because things were going wrong. Are you telling me I should sell that?”

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

Brian Hamburger has been one of the leading authorities in the world of registered investment advisories, broker-dealers, SEC regulatory compliance. And when faced with the typical widow dilemma, she stepped in and said – RITHOLTZ: I’m not going to sell (ph). HAMBURGER: — I’m not going to sell. RITHOLTZ: OK.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

And so to the extent that we could build a best-in-class private credit direct lending platform, there would be buyers of that business because, again, private equity firms always build things to sell them, right? We like businesses that are really what I would call traditional side, middle market companies. So what do we mean by that?

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 18, 2023

We never have to sell, only when we want to because we control the companies. What was it like on the private side at the end in the ‘90s? BARATTA: So I think we just raised a small credit fund, which is $900 million, and then we had an M&A advisory business. You saw it in the financial services sector. billion or $1.3

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

RITHOLTZ: So late ‘80s, early ‘90s, you’re a VP for an advisory firm that leads some sovereign debt restructurings and transactions in both South America and Central America. And so my job for basically two weeks was to get up, go sell as much FX or buy as many dollars as I could, and then go back to the hotel and sit by the pool.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It was a pretty interesting period because the, the congress had just passed what’s called the Monetary Control Act, where they were forcing the Fed to charge for all its services to, so, so, so to sort of level the playing field with the private sector. You have a seat on 00:14:23 [Speaker Changed] That.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

All these interactive services, I was really intrigued. They had a service called Gameline. RITHOLTZ: We’re definitely going to talk about the JOBS Act and some of the public service you’ve done. So on the policy side, we tend to focus on the industries where there is a policy kind of component.

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