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Episode 231 – Kingswood’s Billion-Dollar Partnership with Eudaimonia with Mike Nessim, Jaime Golden, & John Goodson

October 9, 2024Advisorpedia, Finance, Industry Innovators, Power Your Advice, Uncategorized#Advisorpedia, #DougHeikkinen, #Eudaimonia, #FinancialAdvisors, #Investors, #JaimeGolden, #JohnGoodson, #KingswoodUS, #MikeNessim, #PowerYourAdviceJulia Smollen

Kingswood U.S. recently announced the successful partnership of the Nashville, Tennessee-based Eudaimonia Partners and Eudaimonia Advisors (Collectively known as “Eudaimonia”).

Additionally, it entered a strategic alliance with Eudaimonia Asset Management, a turnkey asset management-based RIA. The three RIAs under the Eudaimonia Group collectively represent more than $1 billion in total client assets.

To discuss this new partnership, we welcome, Mike Nessim, CEO and Managing Partner of Kingswood U.S., Jaime Golden, President of Acquisitions at Kingswood U.S., and John Goodson, Founder & Partner of Eudaimonia.

Points also covered:

The partnership representing over a billion dollars in client assets, marking a significant milestone in Kingswood’s growth strategy to scale up its RIA.
How the acquisition is larger and more complex than Kingswood’s previous ones, facilitated by established relationships and a shared advisory culture.
The partnership aligning both firms’ values and focusing on supporting financial advisors, making it an ideal fit for Kingswood’s growth strategy.
Eudaimonia’s turnkey asset management platform (TAMP) and how it provides holistic wealth management services, enhancing advisor offerings.
Both firms seeing Nashville as a key growth market, with plans to leverage their partnership for continued expansion across the Southeast and beyond.

Resources:

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Episode 91 – What to Consider Before Changing Firms – with Jaime Golden

June 9, 2022Advisorpedia, Finance, Industry Innovators, Power Your Advice, Uncategorized#Advisorpedia, #AdvisorRecruiting, #AdvisorTransition, #DouglasHeikkinen, #FinancialAdvisors, #JaimeGolden, #KingswoodUS, #PowerYourAdvice, #RIAspoweryouradvicepodcast

Jaime Golden is the President of Acquisitions at Kingswood U.S., an SEC-registered RIA and a FINRA-licensed broker/dealer that offers comprehensive wealth management and business-building services designed specifically for the independent financial advisor.

In today’s episode, Doug and Jaime talk about the importance of advisors finding the right fit and what they should take under consideration when making a move to a new firm. They also discuss

Whether or not the types of advisors looking for new homes have shifted
How factors outside of market performance drive advisors to entertain a change
Why advisors should look for a good cultural fit in a new firm
How advisors can evaluate whether or not a new broker-dealer is a good fit
How Jaime & his team help advisors find a voice at Kingswood U.S.
How Kingswood U.S. works to ensure its culture carries through to all its employees and advisors

Resources: Kingswood U.S.

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Episode 82 – Building A Culture of Going the Extra Mile – With Mike Nessim

April 21, 2022Advisorpedia, Finance, Industry Innovators, Power Your Advice, Uncategorized#Advisorpedia, #Alts, #DouglasHeikkinen, #FinancialAdvisors, #KingswoodUS, #MichaelNessim, #PowerYourAdvice, #RIAs, #SuccessionPlanningpoweryouradvicepodcast

Mike Nessim is the CEO and Managing Director of Kingswood U.S., an SEC-registered RIA and a FINRA-licensed broker/dealer that offers comprehensive wealth management and business-building services designed specifically for the independent financial advisor.

In today’s episode, Doug and Mike talk about Kingswood’s extraordinary growth and how his leadership style and focus on working hard, trying to do the right thing and being fair with people has helped shape the company. They also discuss:

The growing advisor need for help with succession planning
How Kingswood’s liquidity can help advisors decouple from their current broker-dealer
How alternatives can help make advisors more competitive
Why Kingswood is seeing an increase in the number of advisors between $50-$150 million looking to offload some of the operational aspects of their business to allow themselves to focus on their clients
Why Mike thinks advisors are choosing to join Kingswood now more than ever
What Mike is excited for in the future

Resources: Kingswood U.S.

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Episode 76 – What Advisors Should Know About Alternatives – Douglas Blake

March 8, 2022Advisorpedia, Finance, Industry Innovators, Power Your Advice#Advisorpedia, #AlternativeInvestments, #Alts, #DouglasBlake, #DouglasHeikkinen, #FinancialAdvisors, #KingswoodUS, #PowerYourAdvice, #RIAspoweryouradvicepodcast

Douglas Blake is the managing director of investment solutions at Kingswood U.S., An SEC-registered RIA and a FINRA-licensed broker/dealer that offers comprehensive wealth management and business-building services designed specifically for the independent financial advisor.

In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug and Doug talk about one of the hottest asset classes around: alternatives.

The basics of alternative investments – what they are & why people are crazy about them right now
Why they are an important resource for advisors to use in client portfolios
How Doug discovers and vets companies to put on the Kingswood platform, and how he monitors and manages the companies they work with
How advisors can equip themselves to deal with the onslaught of alternatives coming their way
What Doug sees coming in the alternative space

Resources: Kingswood U.S.

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Episode 75 – Partner to Take Your Business to the Next Level – With Paul Lee

March 4, 2022Advisorpedia, Finance, Industry Innovators, Power Your Advice#Advisorpedia, #DouglasHeikkinen, #FinancialAdvisors, #KingswoodUS, #PaulLee, #PowerYourAdvice, #PracticeManagement, #RIAspoweryouradvicepodcast

We love to hear, learn from and share advisor stories. What works for them, what challenges they face, how they continually up their game, and what they’ve learned along the way that has helped shape the advisor they are today. Today’s guest is Paul Lee from Kingswood U.S., an advisor with a rapidly advancing career who helps the next generation of investors make smart investment choices.

In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug and Paul talk about his career in financial services and his perspective on some of the challenges advisors face today. They also discuss:

What he learned working in a wirehouse
What his sweet spot is in working with clients
How he manages the responsibility of being a financial advisor
What his thought process was in choosing a new firm with which to affiliate his business
Why he chose to work with Kingswood U.S. over other firms

Resources: Kingswood U.S.

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Episode 57 – Benefits of Working with an Organization That Has Strong In-House Compliance – With Mike Alsoraimi

November 30, 2021Advisorpedia, Finance, Industry Innovators, Power Your Advice, Uncategorized#Advisorpedia, #Compliance, #DouglasHeikkinen, #FinancialAdvisors, #KingswoodUS, #MikeAlsoraimi, #PowerYourAdvice, #RegBI, #RIAspoweryouradvicepodcast

Mike Alsoraimi is the Co-Chief Compliance Officer for Kingswood Group U.S., An SEC-registered RIA and a FINRA-licensed broker/dealer that offers comprehensive wealth management and business-building services designed specifically for the independent financial advisor

In today’s episode, Doug and Mike talk about the complexity of managing compliance across Kingswood’s two Broker-Dealers and two RIAs. They also discuss

The current state of compliance in the financial services industry
Whether it’s getting tougher or easier to “get things through compliance”
Why it is important to automate the compliance process
Reg BI – who it affects, and who it helps
What regulators are looking for
What regulators mean by “active effort”
How advisors can communicate with their clients about regulation and how it exists to protect the investor

Resources: Kingswood U.S.

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Episode 48 – Building Advisor Businesses Through Partnership – with Val Peters Rayevskiy

September 9, 2021Advisorpedia, Finance, Industry Innovators, Power Your Advice, Uncategorized#Advisorpedia, #BrokerDealers, #DouglasHeikkinen, #FinancialAdvisors, #IBDs, #KingswoodUS, #PowerYourAdvice, #RIAs, #ValRayevskiypoweryouradvicepodcast

Val Peters Rayevskiy is the Chief Operating Officer of Kingswood U.S., an SEC-registered RIA and a FINRA-licensed broker/dealer with over $2B in assets under management, that offers comprehensive wealth management and business-building services designed specifically for the independent financial advisor.

In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and Val talk about his background, what drew him to financial services and why Kingswood U.S. is unique:

Why advisors should consider Kingswood, and why now
Why Kingswood works so hard to deliver personal touch and service to their advisors
How Kingswood’s culture of partnership drives everything they do
What the future holds for Kingswood U.S.

Resources: Kingswood U.S.

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Episode 28 – Helping Advisors Through Every Step of Transition – with Jaime Golden

March 31, 2021Advisorpedia, Finance, Industry Innovators, Power Your Advice, Uncategorized#DouglasHeikkinen, #FinancialAdvisors, #JaimeGolden, #KingswoodUS, #M&A, #PowerYourAdvice, #RIAspoweryouradvicepodcast

Jaime Golden is president of Acquisitions at Kingswood U.S., and spends most of his time working with financial advisors who are considering or working through full or partial acquisitions of their firms. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and Jaime discuss trends Jaime is seeing for both rep movement and M&A in our industry.

Why might an advisor consider changing firms
The thought process advisors go through before making a change
What questions come up most in the process, and how Kingswood helps answer them
How Kingswood helps advisors who have plateaued achieve growth
What the biggest advantage is for advisors working with Kingswood

Resources: Kingswood U.S.

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Episode 20 – Investment Banking Can Enhance Financial Advisors’ Value Propositions- with Michael Nessim

December 9, 2020Finance, Industry Innovators, IRIS Media Works, Power Your Advice, Uncategorized#DougHeikkinen, #FinancialAdvisors, #InvestmentBanking, #IRIS.xyz, #IRISMediaWorks, #KingswoodUS, #MichaelNessim, #PowerYourAdvice, #RIAspoweryouradvicepodcast

Michael Nessim is the President of Kingswood U.S. and the CEO of Benchmark Advisory Services, LLC. He has been in the financial services industry for more than 24 years and had been involved with investment banking for the last 20 years.

In this episode of Power Your Advice, Mike and Doug Heikkinen discuss investment banking – what it is and why financial advisors should consider including it in their client portfolios. They also talk about how Kingswood can help advisors provide access to this important and differentiating solution for their clients.

What does ‘investment banking” mean to advisors and their clients
How does Mike feel investment banking drives the economy
How can adding investment banking help strengthen advisors’ value propositions
The types of risks associated with investment banking and how can they be offset

Resources: Kingswood U.S.

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