Karen Barr, CEO of the Investment Adviser Association joins Bruce, flying solo today as Jeff hosts our own RIA summit, to chat all things advisory business. Nicole Casperson joins Bruce to discuss how tech is reshaping account aggregation.

Target-date funds have come under fire recently, with comments made by Peter Mallouk disparaging the products. Jason Kephart joins the pod today to discuss what’s up with TDFs. Why are they popular, are investors using them wrong, and what are collective investment trusts? Devin McGinley also joins to share the latest from the 2021 InvestmentNews compensation and staffing study.

Alexandra Mihailescu Cichon from RepRisk joins Jeff and Bruce to discuss the current state of ESG, and the future. They go over the growing pains of greenwashing, Tariq Fancy’s comments disparaging ESG, the DOL proposal and more. Scott Silver also joins to chat about the recent Worden Capital fiasco and what it means for the industry.

Bitcoin futures ETFs have hit the market recently, causing big waves. Crypto advocates have long sought cryptocurrency fund products, and those efforts have been hampered by lack of regulation. Nate Geraci, president of The ETF Store, joins Jeff and Bruce to dive into the details. Danny Sarch from Leitner Sarch Consultants chats about the dance between the wirehouses and the RIA space.

Frank Congemi of Benefactor Financial joins Bruce Kelly on today’s episode to talk about Covid’s effect on the work of financial advisers. Nearly two years into the pandemic, what has changed and will there ever be a return to normal for advisers? Lori Varnell, chief of the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Elder Financial Fraud team, chats with Bruce about elder fraud and a case that recently made waves.

Frank Congemi of Benefactor Financial joins Bruce Kelly on today’s episode to talk about Covid’s effect on the work of financial advisers. Nearly two years into the pandemic, what has changed and will there ever be a return to normal for advisers? Lori Varnell, chief of the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Elder Financial Fraud team, chats with Bruce about elder fraud and a case that recently made waves.

Bruce first talks to Mike Edmiston, the new head of the plaintiff’s bar group, PIABA, about RIAs and investor lawsuits and then to IN’s own Emile Hallez about financial advisers and the Great Resignation.

Jeff takes Knut Rostad of The Institute for the Fiduciary Standard deep into the weeds and back in a discussion designed to untangle the endless regulatory wrangling over whether brokers or advisers have the better standard of practice. Do consumers even understand or care about so much inside baseball? Or is this whole debate just an attempt to leverage a marketing advantage?

This episode kicks off with tax management guru Ed Slott giving advisers some solid year-end tax strategies to employ, regardless of where the Biden tax hikes end up. For his second guest, Jeff talks with David DeVoe about the pace of record-setting consolidation in the wealth management space. How long can it last, and how much is your advisory firm worth?

Bruce Kelly takes the reins of this week’s pod so Jeff can take care of his last-minute Christmas shopping and fruitcake baking. InvestmentNews’ Sean Allocca joins the podcast to chat with Bruce about some of the big acquisitions and hoped-for acquisitions in the wealth tech space. They go over Wealthfront as a possible buy target and Apollo’s purchase of Griffin.