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Bourbon, Real Estate, and Golf Courses: How Innovations in Investments, Training, and Client Service Built a $9.4B Business
Gary Furukawa and Erik Morgan of Freestone Capital share how their success is driven by creating unique solutions for clients, training their team, and managing investments.
Embracing a Growth Mindset: Best Practices for Top Advisors from AllianceBernstein’s Head of Private Wealth
Top firm leader, Onur Erzan discusses how a growth mindset transcends AllianceBernsteins culture, from its enhanced value proposition to its blend of proprietary and open architecture solutions.
Building a Business with Intention: The $5B Callan Family Office Recipe for Success
Jack Ginter, CEO and Partner of Callan Family Office, discusses how understanding the unique needs of clients and delivering upon those needs are the key to building a world-class advisory business. The 30-year industry veteran shares his journey and offe
2023’s Most Valuable Insights on Transitions, Independence, and Advisor Growth
A compendium of the best advice from top advisors on eliminating limitations and bureaucracy, fostering growth, maximizing business value, and ensuring your firm is the right place for your clients and business for the long term.
An Advisor’s Guide to 2024: The Impact of 2023 on the Coming Year
A review of the most influential trends that impacted advisors in 2023, plus predictions and actionable guidance for 2024 to help advisors think more strategically and set longer-term goals to grow, protect, and future-proof their businesses.
Barron’s Top Advisor and Industry Visionary Steve Lockshin: Lessons from the Life of a Serial Entrepreneur
The founder of AdvicePeriod, Vanilla, and others, offers a unique perspective on how an advisors entrepreneurial DNA can drive their ability to serve clients and grow untethered, particularly in the independent space.
The Founding Sanctuary Team: How These Wells Fargo Breakaways Built a $2.4B Business
What motivated this $1.6B multi-generational Wells Fargo team to leave the wirehouse world for supported independence with a relatively unknown broker dealer? Chris and Brian Cooke of Cooke Financial discuss their decision, growth, and more.
$1.6B 6 Years Later: Matt Celenza on Doubling Growth, Opportunity, and Life After Merrill
The founder of Boulevard Family Wealth revisits the show 6 years later to share an insider perspective on what he wishes he knew before breaking away from Merrill, including greater access to everything his UHNW clients needed and the positive impact on c
Private Equity and the RIA: Two Perspectives on the Value of Growth
Mark Copeland, Founder of $19B Signature Estate & Investment Advisors (SEIA) and Ben Prigal, Vice President of Reverence Capital Partners, discuss the value of partnership between private equity and RIAs, practice valuation, PEs attraction to the wealth
From Lifer to Leaver: $3B Former UBS Advisor Finds His New Edge
Ghislain Gouraige, a 15-year UBS culture carrier shares what made him start listening to what was going on outside of the four walls of the firm at which he built a $3B practice, the value he saw in leaving to join NewEdge, tips on building an extraor