Modern Financial Advisor

Kirsten Petras of Oak Street Funding joins Mike Langford to explore the rapid increase in acquisition activity in the wealth management industry. As the great wave of transitions heats up for RIAs and independent financial advisors, firms with the right financing in place are aggressively scaling up their businesses by acquiring the businesses of retiring advisors.

Mike Langford is joined by Kelli Cruz of Cruz Consulting Group to explore how wealth management businesses (RIAs, broker-dealers, and individual financial advisors) can increase the value of their firms and the success rate for their transition (either by acquisition or internal succession planning) by focusing on the talent within their organizations.

Victor Gaxiola, Head of Marketing for Tech Girl Financial, joins Mike Langford to explore how he and his team are using social media as well as video and podcasts to grow their business. In this episode you will hear how partnering with a forward-thinking broker-dealer made all the difference and why Victor believes that acquiring an audience is key to increasing the value of your wealth management business.

Brian Margolis, founder of Productivity Giant and author of "The Index Card Business Plan" joins Mike Langford for a refreshingly new look at how to grow your wealth management business or individual financial practice.

Ivan Barretto of RIA Compliance Concepts joins Mike Langford to explore how compliance can be used as a strategic edge by wealth management firms and individual financial advisors.

Jamie Wise, CEO of Buzz Indexes, joins Mike Langford to explore how the use of sentiment analysis and powerful artificial intelligence (AI) tools have allowed Buzz to create a new stock index that continuously outperforms the S&P 500.

Grant Hicks of Advisor Practice Management and author of "Guerrilla Marketing For Financial Advisors" joins Mike Langford and Carla McCabe of Truelytics to explore the most important practice management themes for 2019.

Henry Yoshida, founder of Rocket Dollar, joins Mike Langford to discuss the value of providing clients with an easy mechanism for investing in alternative investments within tax-advantaged accounts such as IRAs and Roth IRAs.

Jeremi Karnell, CMO and Chief Product Officer of Truelytics joins Mike Langford to discuss the importance of digital transformation and how blockchain may be leveraged inside of Truelytics.

James Hughes of Live Oak Bank joins Mike Langford to discuss how wealth management firms and individual financial advisors can use debt financing to acquire a business or use it to facilitate the sale of a business. Also, in this episode, we explore whether it is a seller's market or a buyer's market. Who is really in control?