Bruce is joined by Peter Mallouk, president and CEO of Creative Planning, to discuss the RIA giant’s recent deal for Goldman’s RIA, the former United Capital Financial Partners.

Bruce is joined by Ron Carson, founder and CEO of Carson Group, and John Furey, managing partner of Advisor Growth Strategies, to talk about Goldman’s sale of United Capital and how financial advisors can move beyond a mindset of fear and scarcity.

This episode is sponsored by Schwab Asset Management.

The InvestmentNews podcast returns after a summer hiatus. In this episode, Bruce talks to fellow reporters Ryan Neal and Emile Hallez, respectively, about AI and college debt.

Guest Bios:

Ryan Neal is technology editor at InvestmentNews. Originally from Northern California, Ryan received bachelor’s degrees in English and philosophy from UC Santa Barbara before beginning a career in journalism at the Santa Barbara Independent. After a few years of freelancing, bartending and snowboarding in Colorado, Ryan moved to New York to earn a master’s degree in journalism at Columbia University. He has covered the advisor fintech beat since 2014.

Emile Hallez is ESG editor at InvestmentNews. Previously he was U.S. news editor for ESG Clarity, covered retirement at InvestmentNews, and worked as a reporter and associate editor at Ignites, a Financial Times publication. Prior to his work in financial journalism, he cut his teeth as a reporter at Evergreen Newspapers, a small chain of community papers in Colorado. Going back even farther in time, he worked as a technician at a tissue bank, making bone, soft tissue and skin grafts. Emile is passionate about cycling, rock climbing, and environmental and animal rights issues. He can often be found exploring the woods of Maine with his wife, Meika, and rescue mutts Piper and Buckey.

Bruce is joined by Ron Carson, founder and CEO of Carson Group, and John Furey, managing partner of Advisor Growth Strategies, to talk about Goldman’s sale of United Capital and how financial advisors can move beyond a mindset of fear and scarcity.

The inaugural episode of the InvestmentNews Podcast doesn’t hold back; diving into essential topics for the financial advice industry from diversity to succession planning to potential layoffs and cost cutting to come at large firms that advisers rely on for service and technology.

This episode includes a free-wheeling discussion of four main topics: diversity issues in the financial advice industry; potential big firm layoffs; what’s the market outlook for the second half of 2020 and succession planning. The final segment, called Open Notebook, explores the risks for advisers taking PPP loans. Please share on Twitter.

The momentum continues with the second weekly episode of the InvestmentNews Podcast, where senior columnists Jeff Benjamin and Bruce Kelly take opposing sides of some important issues facing the wealth management industry.

This week Jeff and Bruce scratch beneath the surface of SEC chairman Jay Clayton’s contributions to the financial services industry, what recourse brokers have when consolidation leads to pay cuts, why outsourcing makes sense for advisers, how financial service industry professional sometimes talk when clients aren’t around, and Doc Kennedy’s legal wrangling. Keep the conversation going on twitter @InvestmentNews

Episode 3: The new reality of Reg BI & why brokers and advisers will continue to butt heads. by The InvestmentNews Podcast

The SBA released the list of PPP loan recipients recently and the wealth management industry is scrambling to justify their loans while operating a fee-based business model.

What exactly are semitransparent ETFs and why do they matter? As these unique new funds slowly come to market, questions remain as to whether the market has any interest.

Cetera’s new head of recruiting has a steep hill to climb to compete with deep-pocketed BD recruiting giants like LPL.

The state of the financial markets and the economy suggest now is the time for diversification into alternative investments.

And Bruce Kelly made his first trip to the office since March for a glimpse of what work might look like going forward.

As Joe Biden releases his tax plan, we fold in a deep dive into the odds of a financial transaction tax hitting wealth management.

The pace of mergers and acquisitions in the RIA space fell off pace from March through May, but ramped back up in June, suggesting the second half of the year could be on pace with the record levels of 2019.

IN technology reporter Nicole Casperson joins the podcast to explain Wells Fargo’s challenges getting the TikTok app removed from company-issued devices.

And Nicole, who was hired in May, shares her perspective on what it’s like to be interviewed, hired, and start a new job without a single in-person meeting with her new colleagues.

Dani Fava emerged this week as the latest example of fallout from Schwab’s pending $26 billion acquisition of TD Ameritrade. She explains her rationale for joining Envestnet to take on new challenges.

Bruce explains how the math doesn’t add up at GPB Capital, where the latest public filings point to a $200 million gap at this alternative investments operation.

The conundrum of why zero-fee funds don’t always fly off the shelf has the asset management industry scrambling to find the sweet spot when it comes to expense ratios. Spoiler alert, brand names matter.

Securities America’s quest for scale through acquisitions is leaving a lot of reps waiting on hold as the near-constant state of consolidation creates headaches and technology glitches that might not have been anticipated.

And in the popular Open Notebook segment, Jeff and Bruce ponder how far is too far when it comes to leaning on a global pandemic as an excuse for lousy service.