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Episode 33 – Disrupt Your Thinking About ETFs – with Rob Isbitts and Samita Thephasit

April 22, 2021Advisorpedia, Finance, Industry Innovators, Power Your Advice, Uncategorized#Advisorpedia, #DouglasHeikkinen, #etfinvesting, #ETFPortfolios.com, #etfs, #FinancialAdvisors, #PowerYourAdvice, #RIAs, #RobIsbitts, #SamitaThephasit, #SungardenInvesmentManagementpoweryouradvicepodcast

ETFPortfolios.com is an investment advisory service that offers a contemporary, common-sense, analytical approach to navigating modern investment markets. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen speaks with chief investment officer Rob Isbitts and financial advisor, Samita Thephasit, from ETFPortfolios.com and Sungarden Investment Management about how the nature of investing has changed, and what advisors need to do to keep up.

How advisors need to adjust to today’s investment environment
How ETF investing has changed over the last few years
What the proprietary analytical tools created by Rob & his team do and how they help advisors make investment decisions
Rob & Samita’s advice to advisors who leverage ETFs to achieve their clients’ goals

Resources: ETFPortfolios.com | Sungarden Investment Management

This commentary is provided for informational and educational purposes only. The information expressed herein reflects our judgment as of the date of writing and are subject to change at any time without notice. They are not intended to investment advice or a recommended course of action in any given situation. The risk associated with utilizing hedging strategies; Hedging instruments such as options and certain ETFs are typically intended to limit or reduce investment risk, but can also be expected to limit or reduce the potential for profit or result in losses. No assurance can be given that any particular hedging strategy will be successful and achieve its desired objective, or will make any profit, or will be able to avoid incurring losses. Certain hedging transactions may involve the use of leverage, which could result in losses exceeding the amount committed in the transaction. Rob Isbitts is an Investment Advisor Representative of Dynamic Wealth Advisor dba Sungarden Investment Management. All advisory services are offered through Dynamic Wealth Advisors. Rob Isbitts is a Senior Contributor at Forbes.com, as well as a contributor with U.S. News and World Report, these are considered outside business activities and are separate and apart from his activities as an investment advisor representative with Dynamic Wealth Advisors.

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Episode 32 – NFTs – The Wild Wild West of Investing – with Ben Way

April 19, 2021Advisorpedia, Finance, Industry Innovators, Power Your Advice, Uncategorized#Advisorpedia, #BenWay, #Cryptocurrency, #FinancialAdvisors, #NFT, #RIAs, #TokenMakerpoweryouradvicepodcast

Ben Way is a well-known crypto expert and entrepreneur. His most recent startup, TokenMaker, is a platform on which users can create tokens and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) with zero code experience. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and ben discuss cryptocurrency, NFTs, and why advisors should learn more about both.

What an NFT is
What are some of the challenges with this type of investment
Why Ben sees a positive future for them in the future
Why you should be interested in this asset class for your clients

Resources: TokenMaker

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Episode 31 – Creating Client Income with Equity Options – with Michael J. Egan, CFP®, CIMA®

April 15, 2021Advisorpedia, Finance, Industry Innovators, Power Your Advice, Uncategorized#Advisorpedia, #DouglasHeikkinen, #equityincome, #FinancialAdvisors, #GyroscopeCapitalManagementGroup, #MichaelJEgan, #optionsinvesting, #PowerYourAdvice, #RIAspoweryouradvicepodcast

Michael J. Egan is the Founder and President of Gyroscope Capital Management Group, a Naples-based investment advisor with a 12+ year track record of providing low volatility, equity income and custom hedging solutions for individuals and financial advisors. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and Mike discuss Gyroscope’s passion for helping advisors learn and use equity options for income generation and concentrated stock hedging.

A brief overview/refresher on options investing
Why finding income for clients is a growing challenge for advisors
How advisors can derive income from equities for their clients
How Gyroscope can help advisors with clients who may be holding too much of one stock

Resources: Gyroscope Capital Management

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Episode 30 – Delivering Financial Planning in 30 Seconds – with Adam Holt, CFP®, ChFC®

April 14, 2021Advisorpedia, Finance, Industry Innovators, Power Your Advice, Uncategorized#Adam Holt, #Asset-Map, #DouglasHeikkinen, #FinancialAdvisors, #fintech, #PowerYourAdvice, #RIAspoweryouradvicepodcast

Adam Holt is the CEO and Founder of Asset-Map, an award-winning software platform that combines design thinking and personal finance to help advisors display their clients’ complete financial picture. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and Adam discuss how Asset-Map came to be, and how they strive to help advisors deliver exactly what their clients want: clarity and simplicity.

How Asset-Map allows advisors to better mine their clients’ data to provide more in-depth analysis
Why “simple elegance” is at the foundation of everything Asset-Map builds
How Asset-Map can help advisors drive engagement and make their clients feel more involved with their decisions
Where Adam sees technology & advice converging over the next few years

Resources: Asset-Map | Adam Holt on LinkedIn

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Episode 29 – Leverage Artificial Intelligence in Your Investment Strategy – with David Aferiat

April 8, 2021Advisorpedia, Finance, Industry Innovators, Power Your Advice, Uncategorized#AI, #artificialintelligence, #DavidAferiat, #DouglasHeikkinen, #FinancialAdvisors, #PowerYourAdvice, #RIAs, #Trade-Ideaspoweryouradvicepodcast

David Aferiat is the founder & managing partner of Trade-Ideas, which publishes actionable market intelligence to help customers capture alpha in the capital markets. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and David discuss how Trade-Ideas makes technology normally available to hedge funds available to financial advisors and investors.

How Trade-Ideas makes artificial intelligence (AI) accessible to professional traders
How AI provides the guardrails to help advisors make decisions
Why David thinks advisors may be reluctant to adopt this type of technology
Where David sees AI & Trade-Ideas headed in the next five years

Resources: Trade-Ideas

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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 27 – Democratizing Access to Alternative Investments – with Perrin Quarshie

February 26, 2021Advisorpedia, Finance, Industry Innovators, Power Your Advice, Uncategorized#AlterativeInvestments, #Alts, #DouglasHeikkinen, #FinancialAdvisors, #PerrinQuarshie, #PowerYourAdvice, #RealBlocks, #RIAspoweryouradvicepodcast

Perrin Quarshi is the Founder & CEO of RealBlocks, an online platform that provides access and liquidity for alternative investments. RealBlocks democratizes access to alternatives by lowering the required minimum investment amount, providing international access, and allowing for investor liquidity via secondary trading. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and Perrin discuss why advisors should be considering alternative investments for their clients, and how they can access them through RealBlocks.

How RealBlocks is disrupting alternative investing
Why the alternative space needs to be democratized
How financial advisors can talk about alternatives with their clients
Where Perrin sees the alternative space going in the future

Resources: RealBlocks

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Episode 24 – Success Begins With Listening Deeply to Your Clients – with Michael Scaplen

January 14, 2021Finance, Industry Innovators, IRIS Media Works, Power Your Advice, Uncategorized#AxosClearing, #AxosFinancial, #DougHeikkinen, #FinancialAdvisors, #IRIS.xyz, #IRISMediaWorks, #MichaelScaplen, #PowerYourAdvice, #RIAspoweryouradvicepodcast

Michael Scaplen is the senior vice president of sales and relationship management at Axos Clearing, a full-service clearing firm and custodian serving introducing broker-dealer and registered investment advisors.

In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and Michael talk about the importance of being technologically nimble and delivering seamless, outstanding customer service in today’s environment. They also discuss the pillars of Axos’ business model and how it can empower advisors to better serve their clients.

You will also learn:

Why the pillars of Axos’ business are unique in the financial services industry.
Why Axos is committed to being light and nimble in its approach to technology, and how that benefits advisors.
How Axos puts the advisor first in everything they do, and how that, in turn, helps advisors deliver a better experience to their clients.

Resources: Axos Clearing

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Episode 23 – Sustainable and Impact Investing is Not a Charity – With Peter Krull

January 12, 2021Finance, Industry Innovators, IRIS Media Works, Power Your Advice, Uncategorized#DougHeikkinen, #EarthEquityAdvisors, #FinancialAdvisors, #ImpactInvesting, #IRIS.xyz, #IRISMediaWorks, #PeterKrull, #PowerYourAdvice, #PreciousMetals, #ResponsibleInvesting, #RIAs, #SustainableInvestingpoweryouradvicepodcast

Peter Krull is the Founder, CEO and Director of Investments at Earth Equity Advisors. He focuses on creating and managing Earth Equity’s sustainable, responsible and impact investment portfolios as well as writing thought leadership pieces and sharing the responsible investing story.

In today’s episode of Power Your Advice, Pete and Doug Heikkinen discuss the state of sustainable, responsible and impact investing in the financial services community today. Is everyone who says they do it really doing it? How can you tell the difference? They also discuss:

The screening process for a green stage portfolio
How sustainable portfolio returns compare to portfolios that don’t take sustainable or impact investing into account
How divesting from fossil fuel holdings can help with risk management inside a portfolio
Why Pete believes that you can trace breadcrumbs from an investment to saving the world for our kids
Why Pete thinks advisors should be on the green wave for their clients

RESOURCES: Earth Equity Advisors

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Episode 22 – Hedging Against Volatility With Precious Metals- with Christopher Blasi

December 21, 2020Finance, Industry Innovators, IRIS Media Works, Power Your Advice, Uncategorized#ChristopherBlasi, #DougHeikkinen, #FinancialAdvisors, #IRIS.xyz, #IRISMediaWorks, #NeptuneGlobal, #PMCOunce, #PowerYourAdvice, #PreciousMetals, #RIAspoweryouradvicepodcast

Chris Blasi is the President of Neptune Global Holdings, LLC, a precious metals dealer and creator of the PMC Ounce, a precious metals composite which combines the four major metals into one investment product that offers the properties of an ETF, but with one key differentiator – the investor actually owns the metals, and at any time, can convert the PMC Ounces they own to take physical delivery of the metals.

In this episode of Power Your Advice, Mike and Doug Heikkinen discuss precious metals – what they are and how they can help diversify client portfolios.

Overview of the precious metals asset class, how it works, and the precious metals within it
Overview of the PMC Ounce – how it works, and how advisors can take advantage of it
How can advisors talk about the PMC Ounce, and precious metals in general, with their clients
How and why Neptune Global has grown and thrived during the COVID-19 pandemic

Resources: Neptune Global Holdings, LLC | PMC Ounce

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