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.

Resources: Asset-Map | Adam Holt on LinkedIn

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​​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.

Resources: Trade-Ideas

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​​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.

Resources: Kingswood U.S.

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​​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.

Resources: RealBlocks 

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Ernest Jonson is a Partner and an Executive Managing Director with ApexOne Investment Partners, a privately-held real estate investment firm and fund manager that identifies, acquires, enhances and operates multifamily real estate across the country. He focuses on capital markets, investment strategy, financial administration, and investor relations.

In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and Ernest discuss the multifamily asset space and the opportunities presented by investing in it. 

Resources: ApexOne Investment Partners 

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The ups and downs of 2020 gave many advisors pause and forced them to really think about the core of their businesses: Who are our ideal clients? What services should we be offering to them? What should we be charging for those services? And what is the most profitable way we can deliver those services to our ideal clients? 

In this episode of Power Your Advice, Adhesion Wealth President, Barrett Ayers, discusses the ins and outs of outsourcing with Matt Sonnen of PFI Advisors and Rich DeSalvo of f3Logic, LLC.  These experts provide their insights on the trends that are driving financial advisors to outsource and how outsourcing can free up advisors to focus on those services that differentiate them.

Resources:  Adhesion Wealth | PFI Advisors | f3Logic, LLC

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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:

Resources: Axos Clearing

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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:

RESOURCES: Earth Equity Advisors

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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. 

Resources:  Neptune Global Holdings, LLC | PMC Ounce

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After a couple of months of slowdown, Mergers & Acquisitions (“M&A”) are happening at record levels across the industry. As financial advisors think about ways to grow their business, they may want to consider M&A as one way to achieve benefits of scale, new levels of efficiency within their business, and unlock access to the power of a broader platform. 

In this episode of Power Your Advice, Adhesion Wealth President, Barrett Ayers, once again takes the reins and leads a fascinating discussion with M&A gurus Stan Gregor of Summit Financial and David DeVoe of DeVoe & Company about how this year has affected Mergers & Acquisitions across the industry.  They also provide insight for advisors on both sides of the equation – how sellers can make their firms attractive for acquisition, and what buyers should take into consideration when evaluating target companies.

Resources:  Adhesion Wealth | Summit Financial | DeVoe & Company

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