Monthly Archives: June 2023

Episode 170 – Improve Communication, Improve Investment Decisions with Sean Brown

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Sean Brown is the President and CEO of YCharts, Inc., an investment research platform that serves over 5,000 RIAs, financial planners, and asset managers who oversee more than $750 billion in assets.  

In this podcast, Sean explains how YCharts is improving communication between clients and advisors, ultimately allowing for better investment decisions to be made.

They also discussed:

  • Why many are strongly considering leaving their advisor
  • The change in client needs and requests since COVID
  • Lack of communication with the client leads to a lack of confidence in financial plans
  • How great advisors keep that confidence intact and where YCharts fits into this equation
  • The growth of YCharts over the past three years and if the initial vision aligns with the modern firm
  • The path forward YCharts is taking to better serve their clients

 

Visit https://go.ycharts.com/advisorpedia for access to the referenced communication survey and also the opportunity to take a trial of YCharts and have a 20% discount on any eventual purchase.

 

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YCharts

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Episode 169 – Employing AI to Meet the Pace of Evolution with Jack Swift

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Jack Swift is the CEO of TIFIN AMP, a division of TIFIN and an AI-driven platform for asset management distribution.

In this podcast, we’ve invited Jack to speak on the reshaping of the asset management space by AI and how the seasoned team at TIFIN AMP is ahead of the evolving industry and market.

They also discussed:

  • The key questions TIFIN AMP is looking to solve for asset managers and how the firm functions 
  • How asset managers partner with the TIFIN AMP team and the variety in the firm’s partnerships
  • How the firm measures success 
  • The capabilities and advantages of the platform compared to an asset management in-house data science team 

 

Resources: 

TIFIN AMP

 

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Episode 168 – The Ally of Artificial Intelligence with Dr. Vinay Nair

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Dr. Vinay Nair is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of TIFIN: a platform that creates engaging wealth experiences to improve financial lives. This is all accomplished through AI and investment intelligence-driven personalization for the advised or self-directed investor.

In this podcast, Vinay brings his extensive background in both the academic and business world to give us a rundown on major industry trends and the AI technology TIFIN Wealth utilizes to help advisors and firms better serve their clients.

They also discussed:

  • The early focus on AI by TIFIN and the evolution they foresee
  • The capabilities of AI and its impact on advisors
  • The challenges advisors are facing in terms of driving growth
  • Firms utilizing their existing data to find new opportunities

 

Resources: 

TIFIN 

 

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Episode 167 – Integrating Protection Products with Tim Seifert

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Tim Seifert is the Senior Vice President and Head of Retirement Solutions Distribution at Lincoln Financial Group.

In this podcast, Tim and Doug discuss the conversation around annuities as well as education surrounding financial protective products.

They also discussed:

  • What advisors can do to help pre-retiree clients best plan to avoid future regret
  • The trends Lincoln and the financial professionals they work with have seen in terms of demographics 
  • Why Advisors are great on the accumulation portion of managing their client’s assets but have issues with decumulation
  • Educating advisors on the importance of having a decumulation strategy as a part of their plan
  • The value Lincoln Financial brings to financial professionals and consumers with its suite of protection-first products
  • How the industry can move forward to help consumers achieve their goal of protection 

 

Resources: 

Lincoln Financial Group

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Episode 166 – Financial Vulnerability to Financial Security with Anne Aldrich

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Anne Aldrich is the Head of Research for the Alliance for Lifetime Income, an organization creating awareness and educating Americans about the value and importance of having protected lifetime income in retirement.

In this podcast, Anne unpacks the research and studies the Alliance for Lifetime Income has been following, bringing insights into how both financial professionals and consumers can prepare and become secure in their retirement protection plans.

They also discussed:

  • The Protected Retirement Income and Planning study and what it reveals about the changing views on the security of retirement
  • The difference between the views of investors and advisors relating to retirement income protection
  • The opportunity for financial professionals to clarify the purpose and alternatives within the retirement planning process with their clients
  • Advisor’s appreciation for the role that annuities can play in their client’s portfolio
  • The 6040 portfolio and if financial professionals are open to change regarding that standard
  • The economic shocks and other factors that are creating uneasiness about people’s retirement savings lasting their lifetime
  • The “Peak 65” phenomenon of the US approaching the greatest surge of new retirees in history 
  • What the data uncovers about the preparedness of financial professionals and consumers for the retirement wave

 

Resources: 

Alliance for Lifetime Income

 

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Episode 165 – The Rapidly Changing Product Landscape with Scott Hawkins

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The Power Your Advice podcast welcomes Scott Hawkins, the Head of Insurance Research at Conning. Conning serves as a leading investment management firm, supporting institutional investors including insurers and pension plans with investment solutions, risk modeling software, and industry research.

Doug and Scott discuss the research themes Conning and its Insurance Research department are following, while also examining the rapidly changing product landscape and how consumers can stay consistently educated.

They also discussed:

  • The value-added differentiator Conning provides in insurance research
  • The restructuring of annuities, an area Hawkin’s team has been following for over a decade
  • The passage of SECURE Act 2.0
  • What the continued rising of interest rates has created for the annuity industry from the insurance side
  • How AI will affect the insurance industry
  • The opportunity in front of advisors in terms of retirement decumulation and protected products
  • Whether Hawkins is bullish on the industry’s ability to help consumers be successful given all the current variables

 

Resources: 

Conning

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Episode 164 – CRE: The Big Picture Perspective with Ian Formigle

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Ian Formigle is the Chief Investment Officer at CrowdStreet. CrowdStreet advisors give clients assets access to investments that are different from their traditional real estate holdings while helping them achieve their financial goals. Ian is a real estate professional and serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in real estate, private equity startups, and options trading at CrowdStreet and serves as the key decision maker for all investments on its marketplace.

In this podcast, Doug and Ian discuss how CrowdStreet is helping advisors cut through the data, offering valuable insights for potential commercial real estate (CRE) investment opportunities. 

They also discussed:

  • If the outlook for investing in real estate has changed 
  • Why there are some commercial real estate headwinds yet no large pullback on some of the prices across the sectors that many people expected
  • The sectors Formigle sees as bullish and bearish
  • The bankruptcies of some major retail chains and if they hurt the general perception of the CRE industry or offer an opportunity
  • The motivators to get people off the sidelines and investing

 

Resources: 

CrowdStreet

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Episode 163 – Axos Takeover: Watching the Market While Watching the Consumer with Michael Scaplen and Chris Versace

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In this episode, Michael Scaplen, Head of Business Development at Axos Clearing, hosts an exclusive Axos Clearing “AxKicker Podcast” for the Power Your Advice series. Michael is joined by Chris Versace, the Chief Investment Officer and Thematic Strategist at Tematica Research: the lead Portfolio Manager for the Action Alerts Plus newsletter. 

Michael and Chris dive into the current state of the market, the effects of inflation and other factors on it, and how Axos Financial and Tematica Research are prepared for the short-term and long-term impacts.

They also discussed:

  • The possibility of one more quarter-point coming on 
  • If inflation will continue to rise and the sequential impacts that might follow
  • The concern of the retail community over-leveraging themselves in this inflation environment
  • The near future of brick-and-mortar establishments and commercial real estate as a whole
  • The future of online banking technologies and how Axos Financial is at the forefront of the movement
  • The AI-driven impacts on the stock market
  • Thematic versus sector investing

 

Resources: 

Axos Clearing

Tematica Research

 

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