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Today, Rusty and Robyn are joined by John Hoffman, Ryan Alderman, Jimmy Dooling, Greg King and Chris Hart from Brinker’s Due Diligence team.
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[12:43] - “I would say also, to extend on Jimmy’s point, [our due diligence team is] a bit more nimble…I think being a smaller, more collaborative team gets us the ability to execute a little bit more efficiently, [and to] make decisions a little bit more quickly [while] not sacrificing our process along the way.”
[16:43] - “Process driven philosophies, being able to quantify why it works and being consistent in how you implement it, I think, are the biggest 3 things that we look for [when considering managers and strategies].”
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Disclosure(s) - Orion Portfolio Solutions, LLC, an Orion Company, is a registered investment advisor. Wealth Management services are offered by Orion Portfolio Solutions, LLC d/b/a Brinker Capital Investments a registered investment advisor. Orion Portfolio Solutions, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Orion Advisor Solutions, Inc. (“Orion”)
Compliance Code: 2360-OPS-9/13/2024
Today, Rusty and Robyn are joined by Jerry Parker, CEO of Chesapeake Capital. Mr. Parker is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Chesapeake and Chesapeake Holding Company. Mr. Parker received a Bachelor of Science degree in Commerce, with an emphasis in Accounting, from the University of Virginia in 1980. Mr. Parker started his trading career in 1983 as an exempt commodity trading advisor for Mr. Richard J. Dennis, in his “Turtle” training program. My. Parker, a Portfolio Manager, has overseen Chesapeake’s operations and its trading since its inception in February 1988.
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[13:15] - “I think [trend following] works for me because it suits my personality to follow the rules…To have a backtest to at least show me, minimally, that this has at least happened in the past…it may not be great in the future, but it has at least done well in the past…but you can have a little bit of confidence going forward with these rules. I think it works for everyone, if you are willing to submit yourself to rules and not be upset or jealous when people are doing better, seemingly, by not using rules…I think over time this type of strategy will work out, and win out, eventually, but not on a day-to-day basis.” ~ Jerry Parker
[19:24] - “I look at our trend following as similar to the S&P. It’s just pure beta. It’s just pure trend. It’s hard to beat, it’s hard for active managers to beat the S&P. I think it’s hard…to beat plain old trend following…It’s [also] rare, I don’t know any other CTAs who will admit that it’s trend following plus nothing, we don’t do anything except trend following, and it’s pretty much the same rules I learned in 1983 with a few changes.” ~ Jerry Parker
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Compliance Code: 2296-OPS-9/6/2024
Today, Rusty and Robyn are joined by Joe Smith. Joe is Co-founder, Chief Investment Officer and head of Parti Pris’ Investment Strategy Committee. He has executive responsibility for wealthtech platform development, and thought leadership. In his leadership role, he brings deep expertise in applying technology and portfolio optimization tools to portfolio design and implementation issues specific to wealth management. Joe is the primary architect of Parti Pris’ investment approach including Parti’s proprietary Household investment management process and our Advisor SketchBook™ portal.
Joe brings almost 20 years of financial industry experience to his position at Parti Pris. Previously, he served as Senior Market Strategist and later Deputy Chief Investment Officer of CLS Investments, LLC. He has held several other investment management and product development roles including Manager of ETF Product Research & Development at Russell Investments and Senior ETF & Index Product Specialist at Charles Schwab Investment Management.
Joe holds a BS in Economics from the University of Washington and an MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Joe has hosted several industry podcasts and authored several articles and papers regarding the investment management industry and trends, application of quantitative methods to portfolio management, and the role of ETFs in asset allocation portfolios.
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[13:49] - “Now, where do I actually think [Direct Indexing] is going, and what we have seen at Party Pris, in terms of the third act of what I’ll call the great wave in direct indexing and personalization. It’s really focusing more on holistic, related solutions than being individualistic…and I think that’s where the concept or idea of Unified Managed Householding is really starting to come into focus for a lot of advisors” ~ Joe Smith
[18:55] - “I think there’s really two major challenges [to implementing Unified Managed Householding]. One, I think, is more technology related and two is more education related. When we talk about Unified Managed Householding, it requires a lot of input from the client [and] it requires a lot of input from the advisor and getting all of that information in one centralized place to make the right decisions [is critical].” ~ Joe Smith
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Compliance Code: 2234-OPS-8/30/2024
Today, Rusty and Robyn are joined by Scott Davis and John Finneran, the Head of ETFs and ETF Sales Specialist respectively at Capital Group.
Scott T Davis is an ETF director at Capital Group, home of American Funds. He has 17 years of industry experience and has been with Capital Group for 16 years. Prior to his current role, Scott led product development across Capital Group. Earlier in his career he held various strategy and finance roles for Capital Group, Hostess Brands and Boeing. He holds an MBA from University of Southern California and a bachelor's degree in management science from University of California San Diego. Scott is based in Los Angeles.
John Finneran is an ETF sales specialist at Capital Group, home of American Funds. He has 17 years of industry experience and has been with Capital Group for three years. Prior to joining Capital, John worked as an iShares leader at BlackRock/iShares. Before that, he was a sales executive at Vanguard. He holds a bachelor's degree with a double major in marketing and management and a minor in international business from Villanova University. John is based in Harleysville, Pa.
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[11:35] - “I think the industry…haven’t done advisors right. By that I mean, the industry has made it an active vs. passive debate. Every time you’re turning this on, it’s ‘are you beating my ETF…you know, what percentage of active managers are outperforming their index.’ I’m fortunate, you know, I’ve had thousands of conversations with advisors, and it’s actually an ETF vs. Mutual Fund debate. ” ~ John Finneran
[13:40] - “Our decision…back in 2019, and for the many years prior to that, was all about how we could take our investment process and deliver it in the ETF wrapper without compromising any of the benefits or expectations that investors would have in an ETF from Capital. Once the SEC rule was passed, that really gave us the ability to do that…We spend a lot of time and energy in the design and execution of our ETFs to make sure we are leveraging all the tools of the ETF wrapper…in order to manage that…That’s been our guiding light as we’ve developed this suite over the past 26-28 months, we know have 21 ETFs that help satisfy a really broad range of investor need.” ~ Scott Davis
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Compliance Code: 2240-OPS-9/3/2024
Today, Rusty and Robyn are joined by Ben Cruikshank. Ben is President of Flourish, where he oversees all client-facing teams, including Sales, Relationship Management, Partnerships, and Support. Ben is a frequent commentator on issues related to investment advisors and has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Marketwatch, and numerous industry publications. Prior to Flourish, Ben was a founding member of the Betterment for Business team and led the 401(k) sales team. Prior to Betterment, Ben discovered his love for start-ups at NewsCred, a marketing technology company where he ran the Financial Services sales vertical and built the sales operations organization as the company grew from 15 to 200+ employees. Outside of Flourish, Ben spends time with his wife and son, volunteers for Hour Children, an organization that helps families impacted by incarceration, and is fixing up an 1880s farmhouse in upstate New York. Ben has a passion for personal finance, which directly led to his work with financial advisors and their clients. Ben holds a degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and holds his Series 7, 24, 63, and 99 licenses. Fun Fact: Ben is dedicated to brewing the perfect cup of coffee, including roasting his own beans.
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[12:15] - “[There are]...four different academic studies, surveying high net worth individuals directly, that show high net worth individuals hold 20% + of their wealth in cash. So you’re looking at this 1%, fighting tooth and nail to minimize cash drag in the portfolio, and that’s all really important, [but] did you know how much cash your clients have sitting on the side?...Inevitably, 99 times out of 100, the advisor would say ‘interesting point, [but] not my clients, I know where every single dollar is [and] my clients don’t hold anywhere near that much cash, that’s just not possible.’” ~ Ben Cruikshank
[54:05] - “I gave myself permission to just read anything I was interested in…I love science fiction and things like that. Just read. Don’t worry about it being the most productive book, don’t worry about it moving your business forward or your professional life forward, just read. Read like a kid, read for the enjoyment of it. I have seen, since doing that…just tremendous improvements in focus, in mood, in new ideas and energy and I think there’s just so much benefit…to snoozing notifications, closing the laptop, and again, finding that childlike wonder.” ~ Ben Cruikshank
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Compliance Code: 2070-OPS-8/14/2024
Today, Rusty and Robyn are joined by Adam Abbas, Head of Fixed Income and Portfolio Manager at Harris Associates. Adam Abbas has been a manager of the Oakmark Bond Fund and Oakmark Equity and Income Fund since 2020. He is also a vice president of the Oakmark Funds. He started at Harris Associates in 2018 after working as a lead portfolio manager at KVK Credit Opportunity Fund LP. Prior to that, he was a portfolio manager at Driehaus Capital Management, a senior research analyst at Neuberger Berman/Lehman Brothers and an analyst at Huron Consulting Group. Mr. Abbas earned a B.S. degree from Northwestern University (2004) and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago (2013).
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[15:08] - “We’re not out here trying to time markets at Harris, or putting huge conviction on our ability to call the exact time of the cycle. We believe that’s a really hard call to make…look at the track records for making those types of macro, top-down calls – they’re very tough to make.” ~ Adam Abbas
[19:52] - “...Business value, that’s where we are really differentiated. We spend some time on understanding ‘what is our forward looking view of total business value, and how does that inform the default risk that’s priced in the marketplace today?’ If that fair value is at a sufficient discount, or cheaper than the market price, and we can’t fully describe that disconnect from top down dislocations, that’s when we initiate the position.” ~ Adam Abbas
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Compliance Code: 2018-OPS-8/8/2024
Today, Rusty and Robyn are joined by David Ricci, a Portfolio Manager at William Blair. David Ricci, CFA, partner, is a portfolio manager on William Blair’s Large Cap Growth strategy, which he joined in 2011. From 2005 to 2018, he was also a portfolio manager on the Mid Cap Growth strategy. Previously, he was the group head for the consumer sector, focusing on specialty retail and e-commerce companies, in William Blair’s sell-side research group. Before joining William Blair in 1994, David gained extensive experience at Procter & Gamble, Melville, and Bain & Company. He is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society Chicago. David received a Sc.B., magna cum laude, from Brown University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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[12:27] - “Everyone…is talking about The Mag 7, but if you go back 5, 10, 15 years - it has really been a market dominated by large tech, whether it is Apple, Microsoft, Google, Meta [or] Amazon. I mean, these companies have been in the spotlight today, five years ago, ten years ago, fifteen years ago, some of them go back much further than that. So, it has been a fairly narrow world [for a while now.]” ~ David Ricci
[16:47] - “[Aside from the election] I think the major tug of war going on right now…is the expectation of lower rates and what that could mean for the economy.” ~ David Ricci
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Compliance Code: 1909-OPS-7/31/2024
Today, Rusty and Robyn are joined by Eric Crittenden, Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Standpoint Asset Management. Standpoint is an investment firm focused on bringing all-weather portfolio solutions to US investors. Eric has over 20 years of experience researching, designing and managing alternative asset portfolios. Eric holds a BA in Finance from Wichita State University.
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[10:27] - “...That’s a recurring thing we see in the world, is that oftentimes, the moment you need to put these investments into the portfolio is psychologically and socially the most difficult time.” ~ Eric Crittenden
[24:16] - “I see this recurring phenomenon over and over, and that is that 80% of the success comes from about 20% of the decisions, or 20% of the effort. It might even be 90/10 in some cases. Likewise, 80% of the dysfunction in your life comes from 10% or 20% of the decisions or indecisions.” ~ Eric Crittenden
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Compliance Code: 1884-OPS-7/30/2024
Today, Rusty and Robyn are joined by Mike Singleton, Senior Analyst and Principal at Invictus Research. Mike studied finance and theology at the University of Notre Dame, where he graduated summa cum laude. After graduating, Mike had the opportunity to work for several years with Broad Run Investment Management, where he spent most of his time conducting deep, fundamental diligence on the highest quality companies he could find. Since then, most of his time has been spent researching the economy at-large and its relationship with the liquid asset markets. He believes that there is a massive hole in the research market for timely, thoughtful and accessible macroeconomic research. That's why he got involved at Invictus. He also wants to thank the incredible team of people behind the scenes at Invictus, who make all of their research possible.
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[24:06] - “Fed policy tends to matter a lot when The Fed is moving quickly. When it’s hiking rates really quickly, or when it’s cutting rates really quickly…It tends to matter when earnings growth, in absolute terms, is close to zero - when it’s not increasing quickly or decreasing quickly. Right now neither of those conditions are met…we expect [earnings growth] to be low double digits, [but] even if it’s 9%, that is going to swamp the effect of 25 basis points of interest rate cuts here or there.” ~ Mike Singleton
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Compliance Code: 1812-OPS-7/23/2024
Today, Rusty and Robyn are joined by James St. Aubin, Chief Investment Officer of Sierra Investment Management and Ocean Park Asset Management. James St. Aubin, CFA®, CAIA®, is Chief Investment Officer for Sierra Investment Management. He has oversight of all activities of the Investment Management department, in collaboration with Sierra co-founders David Wright and Kenneth Sleeper.
An accomplished investment management executive, his career of more than 20 years includes leadership roles in asset allocation, manager research and portfolio construction. James earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance from DePaul University and is a CFA® and CAIA® Charterholder. He is a Board Member and Treasurer for Children’s Bureau of Southern California, a local non-profit organization focused on primary prevention of child abuse.
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[08:35] - “[Recently I’ve]...been comparing the economic data that we’re looking at to a Rorschach test. It certainly doesn’t necessarily tell you a clear picture of what’s happening, it’s a very poorly defined picture, and sometimes I think it tells more about the person that’s evaluating the data than the data itself. ” ~ James St. Aubin
[13:07] - I think that those long and variable lags [may be a risk that’s often unaccounted for]...maybe we are underestimating how long and variable those are. Are we solving one problem, meaning inflation, to create a growth problem? That’s always a concern in these rate hiking cycles.” ~ James St. Aubin
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Compliance Code: 620-OPS-6/27/2024
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