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User experience, or UX, refers to the collective ways an end user interacts with a brand or a product. Most of the time, UX gets discussed in terms of design. Though that might imply for many the idea of visual design, it’s really only a fragment of the full strategic picture.
We sat down with Kyle Rezac-Dennis of the Kansas City digital agency Useagility to learn a little bit more about what goes into getting UX right.
About Kyle Kyle Dennis is a User Experience Design Researcher and Managing Director at Useagility, Kansas City's most user-focused digital agency. They specialize in using mixed method (primarily qualitative) research techniques to complete discovery and idea validation user research projects.
Articles Cited:
- Watch Out: 4 Companies Fall Short Every Earnings Season
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Welcome back! This week, the Financial Poise Weekly Podcast takes you to the streets of the Renegade Crafts Fair. A long-running Chicago tradition, the fair attracts creative entrepreneurs and eager patrons from throughout the region who share a passion for unique wares offered by small businesses. We talked to dozens of vendors on the scene, all of whom had valuable insights for others running a business today or hoping to tomorrow.
Key Moments:
- The State of Street Fairs and the Renegade Craft Fairs Story (5:42)
- COVID and a Multi-Colored Coat of Motivation (9:33)
- Expanding, Branding, and All About Sales (14:36)
- Rain on the Parade with a Silver Lining (25:11)
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A huge thank you to our participants:
- Mat Daly of Renegade Craft Fair
- Furkan Keskin Amonett of The Mulberry Treehouse
- Ximena Gonzalez of Epic Pets
- Claire Shadomy of Salad Days
- Liz Mortensen of Laila Plant-Dyed Textiles
- Luke Hobbs of Luke Hobbs Designs
- Kirsten Monroe of Brown Fox Collective
- Artist Garrett Luczak
- Artist Tony Fitzpatrick
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In Episode 85, we speak with Todd Ryden, CEO of FNEX, a growing on-line alternative investor marketplace. FNEX brings accredited investors together with curated sellers of private placement equity interests, managed futures, secondary private securities, and interests in hedge funds and private equity funds.
You can learn more about Todd Ryden and FNEX here.
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Twitter: @InvestFNEX & @FNEXTodd
LinkedIn: FNEX & Todd Ryden
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About Todd Ryden
Mr. Ryden is an experienced entrepreneur and manager, having founded and sold several enterprises. After practicing law, Mr. Ryden co-founded StarCom Broadband, a cable and high-speed data provider. StarCom was sold in 2001 to Comcast®. Mr. Ryden co-founded Cole Marketing, a bottled water brand-marketing group, acquired in 2006 by a New York based venture capital group. Mr. Ryden co-founded Caldera Development, a real estate development company that has participated in the development of over 430,000sf of retail and office space. Mr. Ryden was a co-founder of ViaStar Energy, Inc. which provided utility management services nationwide. ViaStar’s Automated Meter Reading technology was acquired by Motorola® in 2007 and its utility services division was acquired in 2008 by NWP Services Corp. ®. Mr. Ryden is the Managing Director of The Applied Group, a private equity firm. Prior to entering the business world, Mr. Ryden's legal career included litigating at the Indiana Supreme Court, and representing the State of Indiana in the tobacco litigation. Mr. Ryden obtained his Juris Doctorate from Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis, has a certificate in International Contract Law from Tulane University, Paris, France, and obtained his B.A. from Purdue University. He has been a member of the American and Indiana Bar Associations, serves as President of the Board of Directors of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Central Indiana, is a Board Member of Christel House’s Drop Out Recovery School and has been a guest lecturer at Purdue University, Ball State University and the University of Indianapolis.
In Episode 84, Jason Stevens, investment executive and natural resource specialist for Sprott Global Resource Investments, discusses the potential benefits of investing in the equity of high-quality "Real" Asset agricultural, mining, or energy companies with host, Chris Cahill. That's right, energy companies, even today: the key to garnering inflation protection plus return for such investment is the quality of the companies.
Learn more about Jason Stevens and Sprott Global here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @js_sprottglobal
About Jason Stevens
Jason Stevens is a natural resource specialist and Investment Executive for Sprott Global Resource Investments. He is dedicated to helping accredited investors create personalized investment portfolios focused on natural resources.
Jason has spent the last 12 years working closely with mining and petroleum engineers, influential industry executives, and economic geologists. A dedicated self-starter, Jason started his career with Sprott on the equity trading desk where he honed his understanding of domestic and foreign equity, commodity and currency markets.
Jason has been a featured contributor to industry sites such as Resource Investing News, Financial Survival Network, and The Contrarian Investor Podcast.
Jason is a supporter and promoter of the Austrian School of Economics and spends his free time instructing Krav Maga, the official self-defense system of Israel Defense Force.
Sprott Global Resource Investments is a boutique investment firm specializing in natural resource investments including precious metals, base metals, oil & gas, agriculture, water, and alternative energy. Sprott Global’s clients include small and large individual and institutional investors who want a portion of their portfolio invested in natural resource sectors, especially in junior exploration companies.
In Episode 83, David Drake takes a break from a world tour on behalf of The Soho Loft to talk with Chris Cahill about why debt crowdfunding will gain ground in the US and elsewhere over the rest of 2016, to the extent that some platforms will switch from equity offerings to debt offerings. David gets everywhere and hears from everyone, so his cosmopolitan insights are substantiated. Come join David Drake's world.
Learn more about David Drake, The Soho Loft and LDJ Capital by visiting www.ldjcaptial.com and thesoholoft.com
You can also find him here:
Twitter: @TheSohoLoft
About David Drake
David Drake is a leading equity expert based in New York. He is the founder and chairman of LDJ Capital, a private equity advisory firm, and of The Soho Loft, an event-driven global financial media company. Mr. Drake is a strong advocate of innovative investing in early-stage equity and the US JOBS Act, for which he lobbied both Congress and the EU Commission. Because of his leading work in this space, he was a US Commerce Department delegate to the EU Commission in Brussels and Rome, and was invited in May 2013 to the White House Champions of Change ceremony in Washington, D.C.
His investment, The Soho Loft, produces and sponsors 150+ global events a year. One such event was produced in April 2013 for the institutional media leader Thomson Reuters, with speakers from Nasdaq, NYSE, KKR and Carlyle Group. He continues to advance innovative investing through his work as an international speaker and regular writer for major publications like Forbes and Thomson Reuters. He has co-authored the book Planet Entrepreneur: The World Entrepreneurship Forum’s Guide to Business Success Around the World and is the author of Crowd Fund Economics.His focus today is to take on board advisory positions at companies, angel networks and venture funds, and to guide them on such topics as international regulations, corporate strategy and fund structures, with emphasis on the growing trend of online investment automation for retail and angel investors.Privately, Mr. Drake has hosted the Harvard Business Club of NY at his home, produced Carnegie Hall concerts and raised funds for the charities Trail Blazers and Best Buddies Carnegie Hall for many years. Today he is a board director of the UBS Charity of the Year, London-based ARCHIVE Global, and is co-chair of the Tree Kangaroo Foundation in New York.Born in Sweden and fluent in six languages, Mr. Drake has an MBA in Finance and an MA in International Law and Economics from George Washington University, where he was awarded the Wallenberg Scholarship for academic merit.
In Episode 82, Chris Cahill speaks with Phil DeMuth, author of The Overtaxed Investor: Slash Your Tax Bill & Be a Tax Alpha Dog. The author is as engaging and enthused as his frequent co-author Ben Stein affects not to be. Listen and learn about the benefits of taking a "lifetime perspective on your taxes."
You can learn more about Phil DeMuth here.
Or you can find him here:
Twitter: @PhilDeMuth
About Phil DeMuth
Phil DeMuth is Managing Director at Conservative Wealth Management, LLC, where he enjoys working with high net worth clients and saving them from the depredations of the financial services industry.
Phil was valedictorian of his class at the University of California at Santa Barbara, then went on for his master’s in communication and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. A psychologist and investment advisor, Phil has written for the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Forbes, the Journal of Financial Planning, Human Behavior and Psychology Today , and is the author of nine books on investing, most co-authored with his pal, economist Ben Stein. His opinions have been quoted in the New York Times, the Financial Times, Yahoo! Finance, On Wall Street, Fortune, Research Magazine, Investor’s Business Daily, Motley Fool, theStreet.com and he has been seen on various TV shows, including CNBC’s Worldwide Exchange, On the Money, Squawk Box and Closing Bell, as well as Fox & Friends, Wall Street Week, and Consuelo Mack WealthTrack.
Gap Year: using a year between high school and college in particular ways in order to maximize the value of college. In Episode 81, Chris Cahill talks Gap Year with Ethan Knight, co-founder of the American Gap Association. The AGA serves as a comprehensive resource for those interested in the programmatic Gap Year's instructional, experiential, and adventuresome qualities.
You can find out more about Ethan Knight and the American Gap Association here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @americangap
About Ethan Knight
Ethan Knight has been working within the world of Gap Years since 1996, when he took his own Gap Year to India, Nepal and Tibet. Back in those days the only options to taking an official Gap Year was through the Center for Interim Programs, and that's exactly how he first heard about this strange thing called a Gap Year. After an inspired talk at his high school, he started a conversation with Interim Programs to discuss what would eventually turn into his own sojourn. Ethan graduated from Willamette University - a small Tier 1 private liberal arts university - with majors in English and Philosophy, and a minor in Environmental Sciences. Immediately after graduating he went to work for LEAPNOW as an intern where his passion for education really took firm root. With the help of a few key mentors along the way, primarily Sam Bull, Ethan eventually led programs for groups of Gap Year students through Latin America and Asia, finally working his way up to Assistant Director of the organization.
After seven years at LEAPNOW, Ethan returned home to Portland, Oregon to found Carpe Diem Education. While Carpe Diem began with just three programs, Ethan added five more over the next six years in order to create more options for a wider variety of students. During his tenure at Carpe Diem Education, Ethan also founded the International Carpe Diem Foundation (now Carpe Mundi) - a non-profit dedicated to the inclusion of economically disadvantaged students in Gap Year programs and higher education. It is currently the only non-profit of its kind in Oregon.
Eventually, after 6 years at Carpe Diem he recognized a need for a professional association amongst Gap Year providers. The needs of the industry were demanding a hub for information-sharing, development of best-practices, and objective evaluation. Thus, in 2012 he worked with many in the field to found the American Gap Association.
In Episode 80, marriage and family therapist Carrie Rosenbloom discusses how to cultivate thoughtfulness and discernment in those relationships which constitute the why of our achievements, both professionally and financially.
You can find out more about Carrie and The Family Mediation Group here.
Or you can find her here:
Twitter: @mommyontherocks
LinkedIn: Carrie Rosenbloom; The Family Mediation Group
About Carrie Rosenbloom
Carrie Rosenbloom is co-founder and partner in the Family Mediation Group, LLC, and co-founder and partner in CT Relational Therapy, LLC. She has a background in the law and a deep interest in human relationships. Rosenbloom’s belief that the two fields are intertwined led her to develop both practice groups. She began her career as an Assistant State’s Attorney in Cook County, IL. primarily serving the narcotics bureau, Chicago’s busiest department. She went on to development work in the non-profit sector, raising money and developing programming for underserved Latino youth in one of Chicago’s near north neighborhoods. Motherhood became Rosenbloom’s next passion, raising children in the mountains of Ojai, CA., where she and her husband, four children and five dogs took a different path in life. It was there that Rosenbloom combined her love of learning with her interest in human relationships and took on the role of content editor at the now defunct Emommy.com. Connecting with other mothers, she and her team sought to shift the dialogue between moms from raising children, to one of raising adults, childhood being the stepping stone. In 2009, she and her family moved East to Connecticut, and she co-founded the two practice groups. Soon, Rosenbloom will share much of what she’s learned about how succeeding in business is related to success at home. Her Financial Poise column, “Lifecycle Management for Business Success,” debuts next week.
In Episode 79, Financial Poise Radio sits with Daniel Rossen, Senior Broker of-CRC Insurance, to speak of insurance. No, wait! Don't run! There are coverages that can help businesses grow! There are coverage choices that are meaningful at different stages of an enterprise's expansion. For a lucid, nay pellucid explanation, Mr. Rossen's your man.
You can find out more about Daniel Rossen and CRC Insurance here.
Or you can find him here:
LinkedIn: Daniel Rossen; CRC Insurance
How are those financial abs? Are you financially fit? Michelle Gershfeld of Get Financially Fit is your financial trainer, and our guest for Episode 78 of Financial Poise Radio. Find out what Michelle means by the tenet "Pay yourself first!" Learn how our attitudes need to be adjusted to improve our relationship with money. And Michelle knows, in part from a career as counsel to chapter 7 bankruptcy trustees.
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About Michelle Gershfeld
Michelle Gershfeld has spent nearly 30 years as a lawyer, specializing in bankruptcy law. She began her career in 1989 at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy, LLP, and later joined David Kittay’s law firm, first in Manhattan and then in Westchester County, and found her niche specializing in bankruptcy law.
Gershfeld has been the firm’s managing partner since 2000. She has represented bankruptcy trustees and clients in more than 20,000 cases. As an Accredited Financial Counselor and Financial Fitness Coach, she is an active member of the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education (AFCPE), the nationally recognized leader in financial counseling and education.
Bridging the two fields of law and financial counseling, Gershfeld uses her skills as a speaker and published writer to help clients on the road toward financial security. Soon, she will regularly share her strategies with Financial Poise readers in a new column called “Get Financially Fit,” dedicated to the idea that your financial success starts with managing your money.
In Episode 77, Chris Cahill speaks about hoards with World Numismatist and Cataloger Bruce Walker, of Stack's Bowers Galleries. From Lydia to the present, coins have delighted hoard-finders and collectors. Coins also constitute a tangible asset class with which one may balance the ol' portfolio.
Find out more about Bruce Walker and Stack's Bowers here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @StacksBowers
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LinkedIn
Instagram
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About Bruce Walker
Bruce Walker joined Stack’s Bowers Galleries, a firm engaged in the sale and auction of rare coins and currency, in early 2015 as a World Numismatist and Cataloger. After collecting world gold coins by Friedberg catalog number since his mid-20s, his numismatic interests blossomed subsequent to purchasing a used copy of the Standard Catalog of World Coins a few years later. After a number of years pursuing numismatics as an avocation while employed in the information technology field, Bruce began a gradual transformation toward a career as a professional numismatist. At first buying and selling on eBay, his involvement with fellow hobbyists led him to become an officer of the Johnson County Numismatic Society (Kansas) before joining a local numismatic auction house to assist with the liquidation of the Dr. Richard D. Bode estate in 2013. As his passion and expertise with coins grew, Bruce made the decision to leave IBM after 25 years to pursue what many consider to be a dream job working with rare coins on a daily basis. A frequent contributor within the numismatic press, with nearly a dozen published Op-Ed pieces in Numismatic News, Bruce continues to pursue numismatics both as a hobbyist as well as a professional.
In Episode 76, Financial Poise Radio host Chris Cahill interviews Financial Poise founder Jonathan Friedland. They discuss the roots of Financial Poise in educating investors about alternative assets, providing distressed deal data and marketing modes, presenting carefully selected and edited writings, and producing webinars on a strict NON pay-to-play basis.
You can learn more about Jonathan Friedland here and here.
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LinkedIn
Twitter: @lawyerfriedland
About Jonathan Friedland
Jonathan Friedland is a partner with Sugar Felsenthal Grais & Hammer.
Jonathan P. Friedland is well recognized as a lawyer’s lawyer. Clients turn to Jonathan with their most challenging restructuring and business matters. In addition to counseling privately owned businesses in their acquisition and divestiture transactions, Jonathan is highly regarded for serving as outside general counsel to closely-held companies and their principals. In addition, he frequently serves as co-counsel to other law firms whose clients are facing financial distress. Jonathan’s practice is national, regional and local in scope. He is licensed to practice law in Arizona, Illinois, New Jersey and New York.
Jonathan’s practice includes representing private equity funds and other investors in mergers and acquisitions activities. Additionally he advises clients about fiduciary duties and helps structure relationships between shareholders, LLC members and joint venturers. He counsels on succession planning, , employee matters and a host of other corporate matters. During the course of his representation, Jonathan is frequently engaged in negotiating loans and equipment leases and general contract issues.
In his extensive restructuring and insolvency work, Jonathan as guided scores of companies through challenging financial situations, including Chapter 11, assignments for the benefit of creditors and out-of-court workouts. For over two decades, he has also represented buyers of distressed assets and creditors and creditor committees against distressed business.
Jonathan is a highly regarded author, editor and speaker. He has authored more than 100 published articles in professional journals. He also has been profiled, interviewed and/or quoted in such publications as Buyouts Magazine, The M&A Journal, Inside Counsel, LAW360,Business Week.com, The Bankruptcy Strategist, Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review; Dow Jones LBO Wire, and The Daily Deal.
Jonathan is lead author of Strategic Alternatives for Distressed Businesses, and Commercial Bankruptcy Litigation treatises, published by West, and the general editor of A Comparison Shopping Guide for 363 Sales, published by the American Bankruptcy Institute.
Jonathan is also the founder and chairman of DailyDAC, LLC, d/b/a Financial Poise™, an on-line provider of continuing education, information, and business intelligence for business owners, investors, and their trusted advisors. He is also on the editorial board of “The Corporate Counselor.”
In Episode 75 of Accredited Investor Markets, Philippe de Lapérouse of High Quest Partners discusses how agricultural commodity prices vary from other (recently plunging) commodity prices for oil and steel, and the attention being paid to water resources by policy-makers, producers, and investors. High Quest Partners is excited about producing the Global Aginvesting 2016 -- the world's premier agricultural investment conference -- taking place April 25-28 in New York City.
You can learn more about Philippe and High Quest Partners here.
Or you can find them here:
LinkedIn: Philippe
LinkedIn: High Quest Partners
About Philippe de Lapérouse
Philippe de Lapérouse has more than 30 years of senior level experience working with leading global companies in the agro-industrial and value-added food chain, including Ralston Purina and Bunge, as well as working as an investment banker at the beginning of his career. As Managing Director of HighQuest Partners, he has led over 50 engagements advising executive teams of major strategic and financial investors operating and investing globally across the food, biotech and bioenergy value chains to on making informed decisions regarding resource allocation, new business opportunities and developing investment strategies to address the challenges facing global agriculture. Prior to joining HighQuest, Mr. de Lapérouse was Director of Business Development for Bunge North America, Inc., where he was responsible for the company’s efforts to expand its oilseed processing operations into Mexico and the Caribbean Basin, as well as developing export markets for oilseed products and feed grains into the Caribbean, North Africa and eastern Mediterranean. Previously, Mr. de Lapérouse held senior line management positions with Ralston Purina International where he managed operations and was responsible for functions including marketing, sales and developing dealer distribution networks targeting the industrial livestock and poultry sectors in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. Mr. de Lapérouse served as director of Sodrugestvo Management Company, Ltd., the leading importer, crusher and distributor of soybeans and feed ingredients in Russia from 2009 to 2012 and was instrumental in making the introduction which resulted in Mitsui acquiring a 10% shareholding in the company. He serves on the Advisory Committee of the Ag Innovation Showcase at the Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, MO, and is the author of the report, Private Financial Sector Investment in Farmland and Agricultural Infrastructure (2010) which was commissioned by OECD in 2010 to provide insights on this emerging asset class and the impact that private sector investment is having on the regions in which they are investing. He received his B.A. degree from Trinity College and an M.B.A. degree from The Darden School of Business at The University of Virginia.
In Episode 74 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, Chris Cahill discusses "The Elements of Power" -- the first major book (and a very fine one) on the rare earth metals trade -- with its author, David S. Abraham. Niobium in steel, much of the Periodic Table in each smartphone, and in smart weaponry: what are the geopolitical risks and supply chain vagaries associated with market dominance by a few nations and players? What should investors know about time frames, extraction risks, pricing volatility risks, and the Molycorp bankruptcy? Note: approximately 4 seconds of the broadcast was conducted in the Lithuanian language.
You can find out more about David S. Abraham here.
Or you can find him here:
Twitter: @abrahadave @tremcenter
Instagram: elementsofpower
About David S. Abraham
David S. Abraham runs the Technology, Rare and Electronics Materials Center and is author of The Elements of Power. His career spans from commodities trading and Wall Street to the White House where he oversaw international and natural resource programs. He is a frequent speaker on rare metals and technology demands.
A recipient of numerous fellowships, David researched the rare metal trade at Tokyo University, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Council on Foreign Relations. He also oversaw operations of a clean water non-profit, starting the organization’s operations in Japan and Uganda.
During his career, he has advised investors on resource opportunities, counseled Congressional staff on resource risks, and received a meritorious service award while in government. He has crossed more borders than he cares to count, interviewed hundreds of people throughout the rare metal supply line and, when younger, monitored elections throughout central Asia and eastern Europe.
David has been selected as a Young Leader by numerous international organizations and is currently a Truman National Security Fellow. He holds degrees from Boston College and Tufts University and speaks Lithuanian.
In Episode 73 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, Sara Hanks, co-founder and CEO of CrowdCheck, reflects on vetting early-stage private companies seeking online capital formation in the New World created by the JOBS Act. Ms. Hanks' perspective is also informed by her past as an SEC attorney, and her present as co-chair of the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies.
You can learn more about Sara Hanks and CrowdCheck here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @SaraCrowdCheck; @CrowdCheck
LinkedIn: Sara Hanks; CrowdCheck
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About Sara Hanks
Sara is a corporate and securities attorney with three decades of experience. She is the co-founder of CrowdCheck, which provides due diligence, disclosure and compliance services for online capital formation. She is co-Chair of the SEC’s Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies, and her comments are her own and do not represent the positions of the SEC.
Sara Hanks, co-founder and CEO of CrowdCheck, is an attorney with over 30 years of experience in the corporate and securities field. CrowdCheck provides due diligence, disclosure and compliance services for online capital formation. Its services help entrepreneurs and project sponsors through the disclosure and due diligence process, give investors the information they need to make an informed investment decision and avoid fraud and help intermediaries avoid liability.
Sara’s prior position was General Counsel of the bipartisan Congressional Oversight Panel, the overseer of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Prior to that, Sara spent many years as a partner of Clifford Chance, one of the world’s largest law firms. While at Clifford Chance, she advised on capital markets transactions and corporate matters for companies throughout the world. Sara began her career with the London law firm Norton Rose. She later joined the Securities and Exchange Commission and as Chief of the Office of International Corporate Finance led the team drafting regulations that put into place a new generation of rules governing the capital-raising process. Sara received her law degree from Oxford University and is a member of the New York and DC bars and a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. She serves as co-Chair of the SEC’s Advisory Council on Small and Emerging Companies. She holds a Series 65 securities license as a registered investment advisor. Sara is an aunt, Army wife, skier, cyclist, gardener and animal lover.
Hedge Fund methods with Mutual Fund daily liquidity? In Episode 72, we spoke of Liquid Alternatives with Pete Hecht, Managing Director of Evanston Capital Management. Mr. Hecht urged investors to reject hype and to measure performance net of fees that can be attributed to such strategies.
You can learn more about Pete Hecht and Evanston Capital Management here.
Or you can find them here:
LinkedIn: Pete Hecht; Evanston Capital Management
@EvanstonCapital
About Pete Hecht
Area of Focus:
Topical Investment Research, Portfolio Strategy, & Risk Management
Profile:
Joined ECM in 2013.
Previously served in various portfolio manager and strategy roles for Allstate Corporation’s $35 billion property & casualty insurance portfolio and $4 billion pension plan. Also had the opportunity to Chair the Investment Strategy Committee, Global Strategy Team, and Performance Measurement Authority.
Served as an Assistant Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and taught the required first year finance course in the MBA program and an advanced asset pricing course in the Business Economics Ph.D. program.
Has research and publications covering a variety of areas within finance, including behavioral and rational theories of asset pricing, liquidity, capital market efficiency, complex security valuation, credit risk, and asset allocation.
Served at investment banks J.P. Morgan and Hambrecht & Quist and as a consultant for State Street Global Markets.
Education:
B.A. in Economics and Engineering Sciences, Dartmouth College
M.B.A., University of Chicago
Ph.D. in Finance, University of Chicago (Dissertation Committee: Eugene Fama – Chair, George Constantinides, Tobias Moskowitz, Richard Thaler).
A long-term investment strategy that keeps wealth in and taxes away. Our Chris Cahill spoke with Tracy Treger, Senior Director of Corporate Strategy at Syndicated Equities about the mechanics of 1031 like-kind exchanges with respect to real estate investment, both for individuals and participants in investment syndicates.
You can learn more about Tracy Treger and Syndicated Equities here.
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Twitter:
@tracy_treger;
@SEquities
LinkedIn: Tracy Treger; Syndicated Equities
About Tracy Treger
Tracy Treger is the Senior Director of Corporate Strategy at Syndicated Equities. Tracy helps high net worth individuals and family offices to profitably invest in real estate. She also assists investors in identifying appropriate replacement property to complete tax-deferred exchanges under Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code. Drawing upon her 20 years’ experience practicing law in the areas of real estate, bankruptcy and corporate restructuring, finance, and commercial law, Tracy seeks out opportunities to improve the relationship between Syndicated Equities and its investors, to cultivate new investors, and to identify new investment opportunities aligned with investors' goals. Tracy joined the Syndicated Equities team in 2013 after serving as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel for a private REIT, where she handled all legal aspects of the company’s daily operations and its joint venture relationships in the U.S. and Mexico. Prior to working with the REIT, she was a partner in two large Chicago-based law firms with national and international practices. Tracy holds a B.A. in Psychology and an M.S. in Psychological Services from the University of Pennsylvania, and a J.D. from Chicago Kent College of Law. She is also a FINRA Series 22 and 63 registered representative. Tracy Co-Chairs the National Leadership Committee of the Anti-Defamation League, among other philanthropic involvement.
Three college friends have started a social media business and ask you to invest $20,000. Is this more likely Facebook or Farcebook? We asked Peter Feinberg, a veteran attorney with Hoge-Fenton of Silicon Valley for the more specific questions an early stage investor should ask. We discuss the Underpants Gnomes' Step 2 and loosely paraphrase Jean-Paul Sartre in considering whether "Hell is other investors." Join us for this discussion in Episode 70 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio.
You can find out more about Peter Feinberg ad Hoge Fenton here.
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Twitter: @HogeFenton
LinkedIn: Peter Feinberg, Hoge Fenton
About Peter Feinberg
Peter Feinberg has almost 25 years’ experience representing primarily middle market companies in all aspects and many sectors of merger and acquisition transactions. Mr. Feinberg has successfully closed well over 100 merger and acquisition transactions, representing buyers and sellers, public and privately held companies, multinational firms, family owned businesses and private equity firms. He practices in Silicon Valley at Hoge Fenton Jones & Appel, a more than 60 year old, 40+ attorney firm. He has previously been a partner at Thelen Reid & Priest and Ferrari Ottoboni and has worked in house at NetApp and Clorox.
In Episode 69, Accredited Investor Markets Radio host, Chris Cahill, again has the pleasure of speaking with Nick Veronis and Kunal Shah of iCaptial Network. This time, they discuss the mechanics of PE funds and of investing in them, including the compensation structures for fund managers as they relate to gains for investors. In addition, our guests discuss what qualities investors should seek in a fund manager.
You can find out more about Nick Veronis, Kunal Shah and iCapital Network here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @icapitalnetwork
LinkedIn:
iCapital Network
Nick Veronis
Kunal Shah
About Nick Veronis
Mr. Veronis is Co-Founder and one of the Managing Partners of iCapital Network where he oversees the Company’s Private Access Fund infrastructure and origination. Mr. Veronis spent 11 years at Veronis Suhler Stevenson, a middle market private equity firm where he was a Managing Director responsible for originating and structuring investment opportunities. At VSS, he specialized in the business information services sector and helped spearhead the firm’s investment strategy in the financial software and data sector, including its investment in Ipreo. Mr. Veronis is also currently an operating advisor to Atlas Advisors, an independent investment bank based in New York. He began his career as a financial journalist for The Boston Business Journal, was a reporter for The Star-Ledger, and an associate in the New Media Division of Newhouse Newspapers. He holds a BA degree in economics from Trinity College and FINRA licenses Series 7, 79 and 63.
About Kunal Shah
Kunal is a Senior Vice President of Fund Manager Due Diligence & Origination where he focuses on identifying and leading due diligence on private equity funds. Previously, Kunal was a Principal in the private markets group at Meketa Investment Group ("Meketa") where he was responsible for leading and managing private equity fund investments. Kunal joined Meketa in 2006 and invested over $1 billion on behalf of Meketa's discretionary and non-discretionary clients. He invested globally and covered buyouts, venture capital, private debt, natural resources, and infrastructure investments. He also developed and led Meketa's secondary funds purchase practice. Kunal served on various limited partners advisory boards. Prior to Meketa, Kunal was an analyst at The Vanguard Group and Hirtle, Callaghan & Co. Kunal received a BS degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Drexel University.
In Episode 68, Accredited Investor Markets Radio speaks with Nick Veronis and Kunal Shah of iCapital Network about the landscape of private equity within the sphere of private investments, including net performance of PE- generally the better returns gained by the top quartile of fund managers.
You can find out more about Nick Veronis, Kunal Shah and iCapital Network here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @icapitalnetwork
LinkedIn:
iCapital Network
Nick Veronis
Kunal Shah
About Nick Veronis
Mr. Veronis is Co-Founder and one of the Managing Partners of iCapital Network where he oversees the Company’s Private Access Fund infrastructure and origination. Mr. Veronis spent 11 years at Veronis Suhler Stevenson, a middle market private equity firm where he was a Managing Director responsible for originating and structuring investment opportunities. At VSS, he specialized in the business information services sector and helped spearhead the firm’s investment strategy in the financial software and data sector, including its investment in Ipreo. Mr. Veronis is also currently an operating advisor to Atlas Advisors, an independent investment bank based in New York. He began his career as a financial journalist for The Boston Business Journal, was a reporter for The Star-Ledger, and an associate in the New Media Division of Newhouse Newspapers. He holds a BA degree in economics from Trinity College and FINRA licenses Series 7, 79 and 63.
About Kunal Shah
Kunal is a Senior Vice President of Fund Manager Due Diligence & Origination where he focuses on identifying and leading due diligence on private equity funds. Previously, Kunal was a Principal in the private markets group at Meketa Investment Group ("Meketa") where he was responsible for leading and managing private equity fund investments. Kunal joined Meketa in 2006 and invested over $1 billion on behalf of Meketa's discretionary and non-discretionary clients. He invested globally and covered buyouts, venture capital, private debt, natural resources, and infrastructure investments. He also developed and led Meketa's secondary funds purchase practice. Kunal served on various limited partners advisory boards. Prior to Meketa, Kunal was an analyst at The Vanguard Group and Hirtle, Callaghan & Co. Kunal received a BS degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Drexel University.
Is Angel investing more like buying a lottery ticket or adopting a puppy? Learn this answer as well as other interesting facts about Angel investing in Episode 67 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio. In this episode, host Christopher Cahill spoke with Josh Maher, a Seattle-based Angel investor, investor educator, and author of Startup Wealth: How the Best Angel Investors Make Money in Startups, which features interviews with 23 exemplary early stage investors. Josh has also helped found Seattle Angel, Seattle Angel Conference, and the Seattle Angel Fund, each with distinct roles in fostering able early investing. Some other topics covered are: What due diligence issues are most important for Angels?; and how are diverse Angel investment methods and styles related to the personality of the investor?
You can find out more about Josh Maher and Startup Wealth here and here.
Or you can find him here:
Twitter: @JoshMaher
About Josh Maher
Josh Maher is the author of Startup Wealth: How the Best Angel Investors Make Money in Startups. Startup Wealth delivers engaging interviews with early-stage investors in Google, Invisalign, ZipCar, Uber, Twilio, Localytics, and other successful and not so successful companies. You can learn more about the book and get additional material on theStartup Wealth website.
He's a passionate supporter of the Seattle startup community, President of Seattle Angel, a non-profit focused on education at the intersection of startups and angel investing. Seattle Angel launched the highly successful Seattle Angel Conference and recently launched the Seattle Angel Fund. Josh, an angel investor himself, has been consulting, mentoring, and advising startups since 2007 and has recently been working to help individuals with strategies for including early stage investments in their overall portfolio. If you are a family office or need the services of a family office, Josh has some interesting projects in the works to help you.
Edward Lehman is founder and Managing Director of Lehman, Lee & Xu in Beijing and Shanghai and other locations in China as well as founder of Lehman, Lee & Xu Mongolia, in Ulaanbaatar. Our Chris Cahill and Mr. Lehman discussed important changes in Chinese legal and business practices over Lehman's 28 years there. They also discussed President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption program, the use (and non-use) of the recently-enacted bankruptcy law, protection of intellectual property in China, and likely targets of Chinese investment in the West as currency controls are liberalized.
You can learn more about Edward Lehman here.
Or you can find him here:
Twitter: @LehmanLawMongol
About Ed Lehman
Manager, Foreign Legal Counselor, LEHMAN, LEE & XU China Lawyers.Corporate Commercial Counsel 28+ consecutive years "on the ground" legal professional dealing with China and Mongolian legal, tax, foreign direct investment, corporate commercial, intellectual property, franchise, direct sales, health sciences, and business issues.
First foreign lawyer to work as a "Legal Professional/Foreign Lawyer" China with a local Chinese law firm since the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The longest serving Managing Director of any law firm (Chinese or Foreign) in the People's Republic of China (22+ years consecutively). LEHMAN, LEE & XU is among the first private law firms established in mainland China (1992). LEHMAN, LEE & XU Mongolia is the First private law firm established in Mongolia. Founded LehmanBrown International Accountants a local Chinese Tax, Accounting, Audit, Forensic Accounting, Corporate Valuation, Intellectual Property Valuation organization with offices in throughout mainland China, Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR, Taiwan and Republic of Mongolia.
Manager and Chief Ethics Officer of full service Chinese and Mongolian law firms, providing legal advice on a range of Chinese and Mongolian legal issues. Focus on Corporate Commercial, Labor, Finance, Minerals & Mining, Intellectual Property, Tax, Media and Advertising, Pharmaceuticals and Foreign Direct Investment in China and Mongolia. Founder of LehmanBrown Chinese full service Accounting & Audit firm in 2001.
Director, LehmanBush (China Investment Company) with "China-Hand" businessman Neil Bush (son of former USA President George Herbert Walker Bush, younger brother of former USA President George W. Bush, and former USA Florida Governor Jeb Bush). China Legal Commentator, China Central Television (CCTV) for the past 15+ years. Fellow, China Academy of Social Sciences. Asia Legal Business Magazine list "China's 30 Hottest Lawyers" .
In Episode 65 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, we learned from Christopher Orr how self-directed IRAs open the way for individuals to hold alternative assets, including interests in private equity funds. Orr points out that the time horizon of private equity investments can match up quite well with the time horizon of retirement funds, and are used increasingly to diversify retirement portfolios and enhance returns. Orr is Director of Institutional Products with PENSCO Trust Company.
You can find out more about Christopher Orr and PENSCO here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @PENSCOTrust
LinkedIn: Christopher Orr; PENSCO
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About Christopher Orr
Christopher Orr is a Director, Institutional Products, at PENSCO, where he has spent the past five years helping clients meet their retirement savings goals by using self-directed IRAs.
Christopher started his career as a financial advisor, working with clients who invested primarily in exchange-traded products like stocks, bonds and mutual funds. Realizing he wanted to help clients access a wider array of options to meet their investment needs, he joined PENSCO. Through his work on PENSCO’s asset review team, Christopher gained experience with a variety of private equity investment types, from private corporate stock to hedge funds, LLPs to LLCs, and more. Today, he uses his broad expertise to help high net worth clients, advisors and asset sponsors accomplish their private equity investing goals using self-directed IRAs.
A native of San Francisco, Christopher holds a B.A. from California State, Long Beach, and, while working as a financial advisor, he held his Series 7 and Series 66.
Join Accredited Investor Markets Radio for a great discussion about gold (and silver, platinum, and palladium) with Drew Mason, of Dillon Gage Metals in Episode 64. What reasons support a 10% portfolio allocation in gold, even though gold prices have decreased in recent years? How does the answer to that question involve macro trends like the Fed's asset purchases and low interest rates? Drew Mason explains these and other questions.
Find out more about Drew Mason and Dillon Gage Metals here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @DillonGage
About Drew Mason
Drew Mason is the Director of Asset Management at Dillon Gage Metals. Mason worked on Wall Street for fifteen years after completing his studies at Wharton. He has written about and conducted interviews on the precious metals via numerous media channels such as Forbes and Business Insider.
Mason is a founding member of Palos Harbor Fund – a physical gold income fund.
Mason is also the author of Victory from Defeat: Learn How and Why Winners Win from History's Greatest Success Stories, which includes vignettes on popular figures in history. The contents of the book include several stories of how the subjects overcame cases of devastating failure to reach their ultimate successes in life.
Mason is based in Philadelphia, Penn.
In Episode 63, Accredited Investor Markets Radio host Chris Cahill has a great discussion with veteran financial and legal journalist David M. Freedman regarding his new book, Equity Crowdfunding for Investors, which reflects upon the JOBS Act generally and Title III equity crowdfunding in particular. They also speak of surprises experienced and discoveries made over his 38-year career.
You can learn more about David Freedman here.
Or you can find him here:
Twitter: @FreedmanChicago
About David M. Freedman
David M. Freedman has worked as a financial and legal journalist since 1978. He has served on the editorial staffs of business, trade, and professional journals, most recently as senior editor of The Value Examiner (National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts). He coauthored (with Matthew Nutting of Fresno, CA) the book Equity Crowdfunding for Investors, published by Wiley & Sons (June 2015). In addition to finance and law, Dave has written extensively about real estate, economics, social media, and woodworking. He is a regular columnist for Accredited Investor Markets. Dave lives in the Chicago area, and is a member of the Alliance for the Great Lakes.
This week Accredited Investor Markets Radio would like to share our most popular episode from 2015, Episode 25 with Larry Swedroe. If you haven't had a chance to check it out, this episode is guaranteed to be worth a listen!
Be sure to listen to our second session with Larry Swedroe in Episode 33. You can find that at www.aimkts.com
Episode 25:
What are the odds? This week in Episode 25 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio host Chris Cahill speaks to Larry Swedroe to find out whether it's best to adapt an active or passive investment strategy. They discuss the performance evidence for different investment types as well as the hurdles to achieving alpha and the odds of doing so in active investing.
You can find out more about Larry Swedroe and Buckingham here.
Or you can find him here:
Twitter: @larryswedroe
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/larry-swedroe/8/791/59
About Larry Swedroe
Since joining the firm in 1996, Buckingham’s Director of Research Larry Swedroe has spent his time, talent and energy educating investors on the benefits of evidence-based investing with enthusiasm few can match.
Larry was among the first authors to publish a book that explained the science of investing in layman’s terms, “The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need.” He has since authored seven more books: “What Wall Street Doesn’t Want You to Know” (2001), “Rational Investing in Irrational Times” (2002), “The Successful Investor Today” (2003), “Wise Investing Made Simple” (2007), “Wise Investing Made Simpler” (2010), “The Quest for Alpha” (2011) and “Think, Act, and Invest Like Warren Buffett” (2012).
He has also co-authored six books about investing. His latest work, “The Incredible Shrinking Alpha: And What You Can Do to Escape Its Clutches,” was co-authored with Andrew Berkin and published in January of 2015.
In his role as director of research and as a member of the firm’s Investment Policy Committee and Board of Managers, Larry regularly reviews the findings published in dozens of peer-reviewed financial journals, evaluates the outcomes and uses the result to inform the firm’s formal investment strategy recommendations.
Larry’s dedication to helping others has made him a sought-after national speaker. He has made appearances on national television shows airing on NBC, CNBC, CNN and Bloomberg Personal Finance. Larry is a prolific writer, contributing weekly to multiple outlets including MutualFunds.com and ETF.com.
Before joining Buckingham, Larry was vice chairman of Prudential Home Mortgage. He has held positions at Citicorp as senior vice president and regional treasurer, responsible for treasury, foreign exchange and investment banking activities, including risk management strategies.
Larry holds an MBA in finance and investment from New York University, and a bachelor’s degree in finance from Baruch College in New York.
In Episode 62 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, host Chris Cahill chats with Philippe de Lapérouse, Managing Director of HighQuest Partners, who advises major strategic and financial investors operating and investing globally across the food, biotech and bioenergy value chains. Among other things, they discuss agriculture-related investment in Russia, Brazil, and Argentina; supply chains in emerging markets (a key factor); and why agtech should be its own asset class.
You can find out more about Philippe de Lapérouse and HighQuest Partners here.
Or you can find them here:
LinkedIn: Philippe de Lapérouse; HighQuest Partners
Twitter: @HighQuestLLC
About Philippe de Lapérouse
Philippe de Lapérouse has more than 30 years of senior level experience working with leading global companies in the agro-industrial and value-added food chain, including Ralston Purina and Bunge, as well as working as an investment banker at the beginning of his career. As Managing Director of HighQuest Partners, he has led over 50 engagements advising executive teams of major strategic and financial investors operating and investing globally across the food, biotech and bioenergy value chains to on making informed decisions regarding resource allocation, new business opportunities and developing investment strategies to address the challenges facing global agriculture. Prior to joining HighQuest, Mr. de Lapérouse was Director of Business Development for Bunge North America, Inc., where he was responsible for the company’s efforts to expand its oilseed processing operations into Mexico and the Caribbean Basin, as well as developing export markets for oilseed products and feed grains into the Caribbean, North Africa and eastern Mediterranean. Previously, Mr. de Lapérouse held senior line management positions with Ralston Purina International where he managed operations and was responsible for functions including marketing, sales and developing dealer distribution networks targeting the industrial livestock and poultry sectors in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. Mr. de Lapérouse served as director of Sodrugestvo Management Company, Ltd., the leading importer, crusher and distributor of soybeans and feed ingredients in Russia from 2009 to 2012 and was instrumental in making the introduction which resulted in Mitsui acquiring a 10% shareholding in the company. He serves on the Advisory Committee of the Ag Innovation Showcase at the Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, MO, and is the author of the report, Private Financial Sector Investment in Farmland and Agricultural Infrastructure (2010) which was commissioned by OECD in 2010 to provide insights on this emerging asset class and the impact that private sector investment is having on the regions in which they are investing. He received his B.A. degree from Trinity College and an M.B.A. degree from The Darden School of Business at The University of Virginia.
This week Chris Cahill speaks with Neha Manaktala, the founder and CEO of DealIndex, Inc., whose Dashboard feature provides real-time standardized metrics on private company deals across the globe. We discussed how current and comparable information, filtered by sector, location, deal size, and other factors fosters world-wide transactional activity, including by accredited investors and the crowd. Join this informative conversation in Episode 61 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio.
You can find out more about Neha Manaktala and DealIndex here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @NehaManaktala; @DealIndex
LinkedIn: Neha Manaktala; DealIndex
About Neha Manaktala
Neha is an entrepreneur and finance professional with diverse experience, from investment banking, private equity and start-ups. She has a unique combination of fundraising experience from top tier financial institutions and has experience in co-founding, leading and running a previous start-up. She has global experience from London and Mumbai and has worked with teams, clients and investors across Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas.
Neha began her career in the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley in Mumbai in the early 2000’s. In 2006, she was recruited as part of the core team to establish Lehman Brothers’ investment banking division in India. In 2010, Neha rejoined Morgan Stanley’s technology investment banking team in London, before joining the fundraising team at Actis Private Equity, the leading global pan-emerging markets firm. In 2012, Neha co-founded and was COO at Vizibee, an aggregated quality mobile video platform, for original short video from Publishers, including the BBC.
Learn about exponential tech in Episode 60 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio with host Chris Cahill and David S. Rose of Gust, an online platform used by more than a half million entrepreneurs in 190 countries to connect and collaborate with over 75,000 accredited investors. They speak about the dramatic changes occurring in the global marketplace for capital in resulting scalable enterprises.
You can find out more about David Rose and Gust here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @davidsrose; @gustly
About David Rose
David S. Rose is a serial entrepreneur who crossed the aisle to become one of the country's leading angel investors... and then crossed back to found Gust, filling a major need in the rapidly growing world of early stage investing.
As an entrepreneur, David has founded half a dozen companies since his first one at the age of ten, and has personally raised tens of millions of dollars of venture, strategic and institutional capital. He was named to the Inc 500 list as CEO of one of the country's fastest growing private companies, and has been described as a 'world conquering entrepreneur' by BusinessWeek.
As an angel investor, David founded and chairs New York Angels, one of the largest and most active angel investment groups in the US. He has personally invested in over 70 early stage companies, and serves on the boards of directors of KoolSpan, Magnify Networks, Social Bomb, comiXology, and Pond5.
Outside of Gust, David is Managing Principal of Rose Tech Ventures, Chairman of Egret Capital Partners, and Track Chair for Finance, Entrepreneurship and Economics at Singularity University. He has been dubbed "The Pitch Coach" by BusinessWeek for his work with early stage entrepreneurs, a "top dog in tech"; by Crains New York Business, and "patriarch of Silicon Alley" by Red Herring magazine.
David writes about early stage investing and entrepreneurship on Quora and Twitter as @davidsrose and on his blog, rose.vc/angelnotes.
In Episode 59, Accredited Investor Markets Radio speaks with Tom Corley, author of Rich Habits -- The Daily Success Habits of Wealthy Individuals, a best-seller based upon Corley's 5-year research project where he separates fact from myth as to the habits of the wealthy and non-wealthy people. Corley and host Christopher Cahill bring Thorstein Veblen, Adam Smith, Aristotle, Benjamin Franklin, and George Washington into the fray.
You can learn more about Tom Corley and his books here.
Or you can find him here:
Twitter: @RICHHABITS
About Tom Corley
Tom Corley understands the difference between being rich and poor: at age nine, his family went from being multi-millionaires to broke in just one night.
For five years, Tom observed and documented the daily activities of 233 wealthy people and 128 people living in poverty. He discovered there is an immense difference between the habits of the wealthy and the poor. During his research he identified over 200 daily activities that separated the “haves” from the “have nots.” The culmination of his research can be found in his #1 bestselling book, Rich Habits – The Daily Success Habits of Wealthy Individuals.
A dynamic and empowering speaker, Tom motivates audiences at industry conferences, corporate events, universities, multi-level marketing groups and global sales organizations. Participants leave fortified and ready to excel both personally and professionally.
Tom has shared his insights on various national and international network and cable television programs such as CBS Nightly News, Yahoo Financially Fit T.V., India T.V., News.com Australia and a host of others. He has wowed listeners on many prestigious nationally syndicated radio shows including the Dave Ramsey Show, Marketplace Money and WABC.
Featured in numerous print magazines, such as Money, Entrepreneur, More and Kiplinger’s, and various online publications including USA Today, CNN, MSN Money, SUCCESS.com and the Huffington Post. Tom is also a frequent contributor to Business Insider, Credit.com and has been profiled in SUCCESS Magazine.
National publicity has garnered international media attention for Tom and Rich Habits. Broadcast media, online publications, and television throughout Asia, the South Pacific, Europe, the United Kingdom, and Central and South America have supported Tom’s powerful message.
In an effort to help adults instill good habits in the younger generation, Tom has recently released his second book, Rich Kids – How to Raise Our Children to be Happy and Successful in Life. Rich Kids was the self-help category winner of the 2015 NY Book Festival.
Tom is also a CPA, CFP and holds a Master’s Degree in Taxation. As President of Cerefice and Company, CPAs, Tom heads one of the top financial firms in New Jersey.
In episode 58, Accredited Investor Markets Radio chats with David Hicks of HomeVestors of America, a.k.a."We Buy Ugly Houses," to discuss how company franchisees find the dormant capital (the "ugly houses") and bring it to market, and how the company finds and trains the franchisees to perform these feats.
You can find out more about David Hicks and HomeVestors here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @HomeVestorsNews
LinkedIn: David Hicks; HomeVestors
About David Hicks
David Hicks is co-president of Dallas-based HomeVestors of America, Inc., the largest professional house buying franchise in the U.S. with over 60,000 houses bought since 1996. HomeVestors recruits, trains and supports its independently owned and operated franchisees that specialize in building businesses based on buying, rehabbing, selling and holding residential properties. Most commonly known as the “We Buy Ugly Houses®” company, HomeVestors has over 600 franchises in 49 states and over 120 markets across the US. In 2015, for the tenth consecutive year, HomeVestors was among the prestigious Franchise Business Review's "Top 50 Franchises," a distinction awarded to franchisors with the highest level of franchisee satisfaction. In 2015, HomeVestors was recognized in the 25th fastest growing franchise by Entrepreneur Magazine.
Since joining HomeVestors in 2005 as Director of Franchise Systems, Mr. Hicks quickly developed a process for coaching franchisees. From 2006-2009, he coordinated the franchisee support for the company as vice president of operations. In January 2009, he became co- president of the company with Kenneth Channell, and since then, company growth has been record-setting with the total number of franchisees more than tripling to over 600.
Before joining HomeVestors, Mr. Hicks was president of NEFX, Inc. in Richardson, Texas from October 1999 to March 2005, and president of Success Motivation Institute in Waco, Texas prior to 1999. Mr. Hicks graduated with a BS degree from Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos.
What is a sideways market and are we in one? Accredited Investor Markets Radio speaks with Vitaliy Katsenelson, CFA and host of Contrarian Edge podcast, about a different take on market trends. He explains what a sideways market is, what causes them, and what the fundamental differences are between bullish, bearish and sideways markets. He also gives us some of his insights on the market's future and some advice on how to discern these trends.
You can find out more about Vitaliy Katsenelson and his podcast here.
Or you can find him here:
Twitter: @vitaliyk
About Vitaliy Katsenelson
Vitaliy Katsenelson was born and raised in Murmansk, Russia (the home for Russia’s northern navy fleet, think Tom Clancy’s Red October). He immigrated to the US from Russia in 1991 with all his family. Vitaliy is Chief Investment Officer with IMA. Mr. Katsenelson received both his bachelor of science and master of science degrees in finance from the University of Colorado at Denver.
He is the author of two books, and his articles have appeared in Barron’s, The Financial Times, and Business Week, among others. Vitaliy has been a guest on CNBC, Fox Business, BNN and Yahoo! Finance.
He also writes a monthly column for Institutional Investor magazine and speaks to investor organizations in the U.S. and abroad. Vitaliy has close to 20 years of investment experience and has taught a graduate investment class at the University of Colorado at Denver.
Vitaliy's articles can be found on http://contrarianedge.com
In Episode 56, Marshall Saunders speaks with Accredited Investor Markets Radio about SaundersDailey, a hyper-local real estate investment platform in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. "Hyper-local" in that the deals arise only in the immediate locality known well by SaundersDailey, the platform also enables collective real estate investing and thus an individual accredited investor's access to bigger deals.
Find out more about Marshall Saunders and Saunders Dailey here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @SaundersDailey
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LinkedIn: Marshall Saunders; SaundersDailey
About Marshall Saunders
Marshall Saunders is co-founder and managing partner of SaundersDailey, an online investment marketplace connecting investors to exclusive real estate opportunities, with low minimum investments, in select markets throughout the Midwest. Heralded as a “Real Estate Tech Titan” by RIS Media, Marshall harnesses his two decades of traditional real estate experience and passion for technology to enable more people to participate in real estate investing in their local community.
Prior to founding SaundersDailey, Marshall held the coveted distinction of co-owner and broker of the largest RE/MAX franchise in the world. During his tenure, he developed a growth strategy that doubled the company from 450 Minneapolis-located agents to 900 agents across Minnesota and parts of Wisconsin. Under Marshall’s leadership, his firm also sold more listings than any other RE/MAX franchise in existence. His extensive experience in sales, brokerage and ownership positions grants him deep, first-hand industry knowledge on the micro and macro levels, as well as access to a valuable network of influential real estate executives.
Marshall is a nationally recognized industry leader in residential real estate and technology, and was named as one of Swanepoel’s “200 Most Powerful People in Residential Real Estate” in 2013. He is an active member in the community, where he currently serves on the University of Minnesota Foundation’s Vision 2017 board to help raise $1 billion for cancer and biotechnology research.
There's money in them comic books! Especially if they spawn a movie franchise. In Episode 55, Accredited Investor Markets Radio's Christopher Cahill interviews Vincent Zurzolo of Metropolis Collectibles to answer the following questions: Why and how are comic books valued? How well do they retain value? How much fun does Vincent Zurzolo have at his job?
Learn more about Vincent Zurzolo and Metropolis Comics here and here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @VincentZurzolo & @metropolis_c
About Vincent Zurzolo
Vincent Zurzolo is one of the nation's leading comic book aficionados. Vincent and Stephen merged companies in 1999 and continued under the Metropolis banner. Known throughout the collectibles market as a fair deal maker, Vincent has garnered an impeccable reputation and the trust of collectors around the world. He has appeared on dozens of news programs promoting multi-million dollar comic sales. He loves comics, the art form and buying and selling. - See more here.
In Episode 54, Accredited Investor Markets Radio's Christopher Cahill spoke with Sandy Chaikin, Co-Founder and head of marketing and communications for Chaikin Analytics, a ground-breaking mobile stock research and analysis platform. Ms. Chaikin, with no background in finance, has found success with Chaikin Analytics, and is also keen to encourage women to take command of their investment decisions. To find out more, give a listen.
You can learn more about Sandy Chaikin and Chaikin Analytics here.
Or you can find her here:
Twitter: @SandyChaikin
About Sandy Chaikin
Sandy Chaikin is Co-Founder and head of marketing and communications for Chaikin Analytics, a ground-breaking mobile stock research and analysis platform. With no prior experience, Sandy started investing in 2012 with Chaikin Analytics and built a killer portfolio that continues to outperform the S&P 500 and most money managers. She spotted the two best-performing stocks of 2014 and bought at the right time – both stocks rose over 125% during that year. Sandy’s portfolio continues to thrive. Sandy is a contributor to Nasdaq.com where she also hosts webinars on investing, using examples from her own portfolio.
In Episode 53, Accredited Investor Markets Radio's Christopher Cahill and Wealth Migrate's Scott Picken discussed the latter's recent plunge into real estate equity crowdfunding in China -- that is, with respect to Chinese investors purchasing interests in real estate in other countries via online means. When Chinese currency restrictions ease, the impact will be immense.
You can learn more about Scott Picken and Wealth Migrate here and here.
Or you can find him here:
Twitter: @Scott_Picken
YouTube
About Scott Picken
Scott Picken is the author of Property Going Global and the founder and CEO of Wealth Migrate, the premier online global real estate investment marketplace. He is an expert in global real estate markets with more than 16 years of experience. Wealth Migrate offers investors access to below-market real estate in first world markets through crowdfunding technology with a low investment minimum of just $10,000 USD. Originally from South Africa, he founded his first real estate investment firm at age 26, International Property Solutions (IPS). Through IPS and Wealth Migrate, he works to realize his vision of revolutionizing the real estate industry through crowdfunding technology to provide a single hub for real estate investors to build wealth and manage their portfolios.
Scott founded Wealth Migrate to provide a single hub for real estate investors to manage their portfolios and build wealth. During the global financial crisis in 2008, he realized the opportunity in investing in undervalued property markets was inspired to capitalize on the growing crowdfunding movement to open access to wealth-building international assets to investors worldwide. Through Wealth Migrate and other channels, Scott is spearheading “The Wealth Movement,” an initiative to inspire entrepreneurism in the upcoming generation of business leaders and to expand access to wealth for all investors.
How do I do money? This week Accredited Investor Markets Radio interviews Jim Chilton, founder of SOFA USA, in Episode 52. His discussion with host Chris Cahill focuses on the many generations of financial illiteracy perpetuated by the lack of financial curriculum in public schools. They cover many aspects of the problem from state funded debt to addressing the needs of the youth to student loan choices, home buying and the economy of the university. Jim also talks about where to find good financial advice and education and the role SOFA USA plays in meeting those needs.
You can find out more about Jim Chilton and SOFA here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @sofausa
About Jim Chilton
Jim Chilton is a San Diego California native, SDSU college athlete alumni. Jim began his early years as a full time teacher/coach at the high school level. With a natural ability for public speaking and interpersonal communication skills, Jim joined the financial services industry in the early 1980’s. After achieving a desirable level of success, Jim felt the need to do more for his community.
In the summer of 1993 Jim founded “SOFA” The Society for Financial Awareness. Between 1996 and 2006, The Society for Financial Awareness has expanded into a national presence. As financial literacy programs are yet to go main stream “SOFA” will continue to offer and improve its educational services to corporations, companies & city governments.
Jim enjoys riding his bike, reading and spending quality time with his family and friends. Jim’s electrifying personality and passion for coaching allows for Jim to partake in various speaking engagements across the country. Jim intentionally leaves his calendar flexible as he thrives under new and exciting businesses opportunities. Regarding Jim’s future, he will never retire.
This week in Episode 51, Accredited Investor Markets Radio speaks with Alexey Sokolin, COO of Vanare about drawing together robo-advising and traditional investment advising to help advisors give good advice at lower cost to more people. Such a combination may match well with the onset of generations who are both comfortable and nimble with automated systems, and may also pose scalable opportunities to investment advisory businesses.
You can learn more about Alexey Sokolin and Vanare here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @LexSokolin & @vanareplatform
About Alexey Sokolin
Alexey Sokolin (Lex) is a Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Vanare. He oversees product innovation and design, and manages the company’s ongoing business development. Mr. Sokolin was previously Founder and Chief Executive Officer of NestEgg Wealth, a next-generation technology company and RIA that pioneered online wealth management in partnership with financial advisors, reaching new customers in a scalable way by algorithmically automating financial advice online. NestEgg Wealth was acquired by Vanare in 2014.
Additionally, he was an investment banker at Deutsche Bank in the Financial Institutions and Media & Technology groups, and a member of the Strategy team at Barclays Wealth, where he focused on the economics of new ventures and management of the firm’s profitability. Prior to Barclays, he was at Lehman Brothers Investment Management.
Mr. Sokolin received a B.A. in Economics and Law from Amherst College, an M.B.A from Columbia Business School and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He also holds a Certificate in International Relations from the Five College Consortium, and a Certificate in Digital Production and New Media Studies from Middlebury College.
In Episode 50, Accredited Investor Markets Radio speaks with Jeff Kelley of Equity Institutional and John Drachman of Alpha Segment, about alternative investment custodial services, i.e., how interests in alternative assets are held and transferred. This is where the rubber (if that's your commodity) meets the road, the gold bars meet the vault, and where documentation of securities is meticulously completed and monitored. From that perspective, the growth of alternative investing, now and in the future, is very evident.
You can learn more about Equity Institutional and Alpha Segment here and here.
About Jeff Kelley
Jeff Kelley has over 20 years of experience in financial services operations management, and was named Chief Operating Officer of Sterling Trust in January 2008. He began his career with Sterling Trust in June of 1999 as Vice President of Qualified Plans and Institutional Group. Prior to joining Sterling Trust, Jeff was employed by Academy Capital Management as a Registered Investment Advisor, where he served as the Manager of the Operations and Trading Departments since 1991. He is an Accredited Retirement Plan Consultant (ARPC) through the Society of Professional Administrators and Recordkeepers. Jeff earned a BBA in Finance/Management from Baylor University.
About John Drachman
John C. Drachman serves as team leader, senior writer, and principal of AlphaSegment, a creative group of marketing communications freelancers dedicated to meeting the marketing needs of RIAs, asset managers and financial services providers.
An IABC Gold Quill-winner for writing and publications, John has developed marketing communications initiatives for dozens of clients over three decades. He has also served in executive positions at Putnam and Pioneer Investments. John applies his editorial skill and marketing knowledge toward crafting marketing strategies designed to help clients attract, grow and retain assets under management. Applying sound journalistic principles to the story telling process, John has the ability to turn complex themes into compelling and actionable messages.
John is a frequent contributor to industry publications on topics related to financial technology trends, crowdfunding and alternative investments. Most recently, he drafted articles for RIABiz and PrivateWealth. A Series 7 General Securities Agent, he is affiliated with Innovations Partners, LLC, headquartered in Charlotte, N.C.
This week Allen Kors, CEO of AchieveLending.com, talks about student loans and lenders with Accredited Investor Markets Radio in Episode 49. His company is the first on-line student loan comparison platform and is really a kind of matchmaker. The company would have a traditional or non-traditional student turn to it to "make me a match, find me a find" among a wide variety of student loans from lenders large and small, including among them, disruptive fintech upstarts. AchieveLending.com also strives to clarify what had been a murky market.
Find out more about Allen Kors and AchieveLending here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @AchieveLending
LinkedIn: AchieveLending; Allen Kors
Google+
About Allen Kors
Allen Kors is Founder and CEO of AchieveLending.com, the first ever student loan comparison tool. At just 27 years old he left his job in banking to form his own financial technology company which offers users a free online portal to search, find, and compare student loans. Designed to help both traditional and non-traditional students find the best student loans, Achieve Lending is the first tool of its kind to aggregate loan offers for those seeking private financing for educational purposes.
Kors founded the company after six years of working in the finance and banking industry, during which time he saw a lot of friends and students make poorly informed choices when it comes to choosing student loans. Even his own student loan choice was uninformed- he had other options but didn't explore them. This decision has cost him thousands of dollars over the life of the loan. AchieveLending.com aims to help users find the most competitive interest rate while empowering users by providing financial education on the loan process and terminology.
Achieve Lending is on a mission to empower others to make more informed decisions when it comes to financing their education. Through their online portal, AchieveLending.com, the web tool allows users to search, find, and compare multiple student loan offers all in one place, in as little as 30 seconds. By allowing students to discern between competitive interest rates, AchieveLending.com helps users save money and borrow on their terms, by helping them find an education that best fits their needs. Find out more and browse loan offers at AchieveLending.com
This week Accredited Investor Markets talks with Jilliene Helman, CEO of RealtyMogul in Episode 48. She discusses different kinds of collective investment opportunities for accredited investors and institutional investors including real estate equity and real estate debt, as well as how such investments might bear upon an investment portfolio. The larger story is the opening of real estate investment--in many of its various modes--to more investors.
You can learn more about Jilliene Helman and Realty Mogul here.
You can also find them here:
Twitter:
@Realty_Mogul; @JillieneHelman
Google+
YouTube
About Jilliene Helman
Jilliene is the CEO and Founder of Realty Mogul. She is responsible for strategic direction, operations and sits on Realty Mogul’s Board of Directors and Investment Committee. Jilliene has underwritten over $5 billion of real estate and was previously a Vice President at Union Bank, where she spent time in Wealth Management, Finance and Risk Management. Jilliene is a Certified Wealth Strategist®, holds Series 7 and Series 63 licenses and has a degree in Business from Georgetown University.
In Episode 47 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio Michael Terrien, founder and Managing Member of West Loop Financial LLC, speaks to host Chris Cahill about investor options for getting financial advice, the significance of a fiduciary orientation on the part of advisors, and what might go into a comprehensive advisory approach that Terrien calls "holistic."
You can learn more about Michael Terrien and West Loop Financial here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @wstlpfinancial
About Michael Terrien
After a 22 year legal career, Michael founded West Loop Financial with the goal of bringing responsive, transparent, independent, and individually tailored investment advice and financial planning services to successful legal professionals and others seeking guidance to assist them in making financial decisions and achieving their financial objectives through the application of a disciplined, academically validated, and risk conscious approach to accumulating, preserving, and transferring wealth.
In Episode 46 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio host Chris Cahill talks with Roy Friedman, Executive Vice President of Dillon Gage, about how to invest in physical quantities of precious metals including gold, silver, platinum, and palladium. They discuss how such investments fit into a portfolio, and the relationships among precious metals prices, the price of oil, and the strength of the U.S. dollar.
Learn more about Roy Friedman and Dillon Gage Metals here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @DillonGage
YouTube
About Roy Friedman
(Editor's Note: At the time of this recording, Roy Friedman was Executive Vice President of Dillon Gage. He has since resigned this position and is now Executive Vice President of Manfra, Tordella & Brookes)
Roy Friedman is a well-respected trader and commentator in the field of precious metals and global financial markets. He is Executive Vice President of Business Development for Dillon Gage Metals, one of the largest precious metals dealers in the United States.
After earning degrees in economics and political science in 1980 from the State University of New York at Binghamton, Mr. Friedman began his very successful career in the precious metals industry. His initial experience was at Mocatta Metals, where he worked as a clerk on the commodity exchange trading floor where he remained for four years.
Mr. Friedman next accepted a trading position with A-Mark Precious Metals and stayed until late 1988, when he left to become a trader at the French investment bank Credit Lyonnais. In 1990, he was recruited by Rudolf Wolff, the founding member of the London Metals Exchange. Here his main focus was to create the company’s inaugural precious metals division based in New York.
Under the direction of Mr. Friedman as vice president, Rudolph Wolff enjoyed much success, including expanding the division to incorporate a 24-hour trading desk with an office in London and eventually a global foreign exchange division.
Building upon his previous successes, in 1998 Mr. Friedman started his own company, RF Capital Management, and partnered with a European business professional to provide asset management for high net worth clients.
In 2002, Mr. Friedman returned to A-Mark Precious Metals as a vice president. Having joined Dillon Gage in January 2012, Mr. Friedman said “I am very excited to be able to continue my career with one of the largest and most respected precious metals dealers in the industry”.
In addition to Mr. Friedman’s vast trading knowledge, he has held several commodities and securities licenses as well as being a Commodity Trading Advisor and a Commodity Pool Operator.
In Episode 45 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio Ted Neild, President and Chief Investment Officer of Gresham Partners, LLC joins us for the second of two related interviews. Host Christopher Cahill speaks to him about how seminal academic studies of efficient markets are over-extrapolated to discourage active management of investments in less efficient markets. They also review the necessary attributes of good investment managers.
Learn more about Ted Neild and Gresham Partners, LLC here and here.
About Ted Neild
Ted serves as the firm’s President and Chief Investment Officer. In his role as CIO, Ted is responsible for leading Gresham’s Investment Team as it establishes investment themes, identifies opportunities that fit within the firm’s Risk Conscious® investment approach, and sources select investment managers located globally, many of whom are difficult for new investors to access. Ted also shapes the firm’s views on the limitations of commonly accepted investment practices, particularly those that have failed investors during the most difficult market environments. In his role as President, Ted is responsible for setting and leading the firm’s strategic direction and chairing its Operating Committee.
Prior to joining Gresham, Ted served as Chief Investment Officer at Nuveen Asset Management where he was responsible for the firm’s investment activity. In addition to his investment responsibilities, Ted held several positions during his 16 years at Nuveen, including Director of Corporate Strategy and Development and Managing Director of Research and Risk Management.
Host Christopher Cahill talks with Jeff Ball, founder and CEO of Visio Financial Services, Inc. and Econohomes in Episode 44 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio. These enterprises are devoted to providing purchasing opportunities and limited-duration loans to local persons buying low-cost homes in distressed areas, who usually have the intent to fix them up either to flip them at a profit, or to compile a rental portfolio. The model is to bring capital and financially underserved persons together to yield opportunity in their communities, with profit all around.
You can find out more about Jeff Ball and Visio Lending here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @visiofinancial
About Jeff Ball
Jeff Ball is President and CEO of Visio Financial Services. He is responsible for setting overall strategy and direction. Prior to forming Econohomes and Visio Financial Services, Jeff was the Global Head of Semiconductor Investment Banking at JPMorgan. At JPMorgan, Jeff's clients included some of the largest technology companies in the world, including Intel and Texas Instruments. Before JPMorgan, Jeff was a corporate securities attorney at Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich (now DLA Piper). Jeff received his JD and MBA from Santa Clara University. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics and Theology from Georgetown University.
In Episode 43 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio host Christopher Cahill and Marty Coyne, Chief Technology Officer of ConnectedInvestors, discuss what investors should understand about online investment platforms and about the people behind the deals being offered. Further, Cahill and Coyne talk about deal areas into which online equity investment platforms may venture in due course.
Learn more about Marty Coyne and CollectedInvestors here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @cinvestors
LinkedIn: ConnectedInvestors
LinkedIn: Marty Coyne
YouTube
About Marty Coyne
Martin Coyne is the Chief Technology Officer of Connected Investors, the world’s largest Real estate investing Community and Marketplace. Connected Investors provides lead generation for online lenders/online marketplaces.
Coyne plays a key role in shaping CI’s technology strategy as the company is delivering on its promises to simplify the exchange of real estate for investors.
The transformational impact that technology can provide characterized Coyne’s career at GTE and as an executive at Motorola, where his teams drove more than $1B of new business revenue to his company and its partners. Leveraging that success, Coyne launched a global consulting practice from which he helped businesses of all sizes develop and deliver disruptive solutions to the market.
Leveraging the Connected Investors Community, numbering over 250,000 members, the Connected Investors Marketplace, is unique as you can buy pieces of deals (Through syndicating crowd funding platforms deals on their site) single deals (Typical commercial & residential investment properties) and packages of deals (Bulk property / note purchases) – all while allowing their network of lenders to providing funding options for the available investments.
How to monetize -- or not -- investment in specific independent film projects- In Episode 42 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio host Christopher Cahill discusses the independent film industry with Bob Labate. The odds against return are high, and Mr. LaBate -- who practices and teaches both entertainment law and financial restructuring law -- introduces us to the principal components of film production, costs, and investment modes. But then, maybe your niece's proposed film is another "Blair Witch Project"!
Learn more about Bob and laws of the film industry here and here.
Or you can find him here:
Twitter: @Holland_Knight
About Bob Labate
For more than two decades, Robert J. Labate has maintained an active litigation practice in corporate restructuring and transactional media and entertainment law. Mr. Labate has been an adjunct faculty member at DePaul University School of Law for many years, where he teaches two courses reflecting his practices: "Corporate Workouts and Restructuring" and "The Law of Film and Television Production."
For the past five years, Mr. Labate has served as chair of the Public and Charitable Service Committee for the Chicago office of Holland & Knight, which supervises dozens of pro bono and community service representations and projects in the Chicago metropolitan community.
As a corporate restructuring and bankruptcy attorney, Mr. Labate represents parties in complex Chapter 11 and consensual out-of-court “workout” agreements. As part of the financial restructuring portion of his practice, Mr. Labate advises clients on creditor and creditor committee issues, debtor restructuring, and asset sales and acquisitions, including Section 363 sales.
Bob Labate is co-chair of the Holland & Knight national Sports & Entertainment practice and he represents entertainment, media and advertising clients and other content providers who produce, license, acquire, use and invest in film, television, theater, music and digital content for worldwide distribution. His clients include communications companies, television broadcasters, producers of scripted and documentary films, celebrities, writers, and investors. He has taught Film and Entertainment Law courses and is a frequent speaker on topics such as fair use, copyright, film and television production. In Spring, 2015, Lawyers For The Creative Arts will publish Mr. Labate's book on film production law.
In Episode 41 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, our Christopher Cahill sat down with Swati Chaturvedi, Co-Founder and CEO of Propel(x), for a deep dive into deep technology due diligence. How to evaluate deep technology start-up companies technologically, financially, commercially, and in all other relevant ways -- and thus diminish the information asymmetry facing potential investors in enterprises that just may change our lives? This is Ms. Chaturvedi's business. An essential topic address seriously but with a light touch.
You can learn more about Swati and Propel (X) here.
Or you can find her here:
@candiedpecans
About Swati Chaturvedi
Prior to starting Propel(x), Swati worked in management consulting and investing. Most recently, Swati worked at Exigen Capital on IT, Telecom, Travel, and BPO deals. Before this, she sourced and evaluated deals in the Industrial Automation sector with Siemens Venture Capital. Swati is also the co-founder and coordinator of the MIT Alumni Angel Investors group. In working with the group, she saw several ways in which the angel investing process could be improved. Propel(x) is geared toward filling the gap, and making angel investing a more efficient process.
Swati has an MBA from the Sloan School of Management, an M.S. from MIT (Technology and Policy Program) and an M.S. from UC Berkeley (Civil Engineering). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the Indian Institute of Technology. In her spare time, she blows bubbles with her one-year-old and learns about Harry Potter from her seven-year-old. She is a fan of all things sci-fi.
In Episode 40 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, host Christopher Cahill and Lior Lavy, COO and co-founder of artizone, discuss the growth of the artisanal foods industry and why it is ripe for investment. artizone is an online marketplace offering a curated collection of the quality goods from local artisans and purveyors, meeting what Lavy describes as strong latent demand. We've gotten hungry writing this, so we're off to the Green Grocer (an artizone partner) to satisfy said latent demand.
You can find out more about Lior Lavy and Artizone here.
Website: http://www.artizone.com/dallas
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @lior_lavy
YouTube
Yelp
About Lior Lavy
Lior Lavy is the COO and co-founder for artizone, an online marketplace offering a curated collection of the finest quality goods from local artisans and purveyors. Within artizone, he is responsible for the day-to-day operations and marketing for the company’s two current locations in Chicago and Dallas, in addition to directing expansion into new markets. Lavy also provides strategic direction and management of artizone’s customer care activities, all go-to-market strategies and brand awareness.
With a passion and love for the artisanal community, Lavy oversees the development, management, recruitment and retention of artizone’s “artisans.” As a seasoned technologist, he was instrumental in developing the company’s innovative platform that utilizes technology to provide artisans the necessary tools to reach new consumers and grow their businesses. His 16 years of product management and software engineering experience was especially fundamental in the development of artizone’s product delivery logistics model, which organizes each individual artisan’s production and delivery timelines with each of the customers’ orders, allowing for pick-up of the products immediately upon being prepared by the artisan and delivery to the consumer within hours.
Prior to founding artizone in 2009, Lavy was the Vice President of Key Accounts at Pontis, a technology solutions company that leverages innovative marketing strategies that help customers achieve financial excellence. The company experienced hyper-growth during Lavy’s time there, eventually growing from seven employee to a team of 140 that achieved $20 million in yearly sales. Lavy also served in the role of Vice President of Product Management for Pontis, cultivating his expertise in both the technical side of product distribution and management, as well as customer-facing sales and delivery activities.
A former high school and college software programming teacher. Lavy is married and the proud father of two children.
Join Accredited Investor Markets Radio's Christopher Cahill and Funding Circle's Sam Hodges in Episode 39. They discuss how peer-to-peer lending companies have addressed a gap in credit availability to small businesses, while presenting accredited and institutional investors with opportunities to select risk levels as well as types of portfolio diversification in taking slices of loans to small businesses. The irony is that -- in light of P2P's growth -- banks are proposing to partner with P2P lenders, thus taking tentative steps back into the very lending space they vacated.
You can find out more about Sam Hodges and Funding Circle here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @FundingCircleUS; @HodgesSam
LinkedIn: Funding Circle; Sam Hodges
About Sam Hodges
As Co-Founder and U.S. Managing Director, Sam is responsible for overseeing the overall strategic direction and day-to-day operation of Funding Circle in the U.S. Under his leadership, the U.S. business has grown exponentially since its foundation in 2012 and has emerged as the world’s largest online marketplace exclusively focused on small business loans. He co-founded the company after seeing how hard it was to get a loan for a small business, a successful gym franchise, he helped build.
Before co-founding Funding Circle, Sam served as Vice President of Business Development at SecondMarket, the leading marketplace for alternative investments. There, Sam was responsible for corporate and business development and the company's geographic expansion efforts. Sam was also part of the investment team at Pequot Capital, an $8 billion global fund manager, where he covered investments in financial technology and information services. He started his career as a strategy consultant at Katzenbach Partners, where he advised financial services and technology companies.
Sam currently serves on the boards of two private companies. He received his MBA and MS from Stanford University and graduated, magna cum laude, from Brown University.
Accredited Investor Market Radio's Christopher Cahill interviews Jim Dowd, Founder and Managing Director of the North Capital companies in Episode 38. They discuss private placement investment platforms, including the vetting of deals to be included on a platform and the effect of private placement platforms on overall investment in private offerings. Cahill and Dowd also discuss present and future prospects for participation of non-accredited investors in private placements, and how that relates to North Capital's choice of 99Funding as the title of its private placement platform.
You can find out more about Jim Dowd and the North Capital Companies here and here. You can also learn about 99Funding here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @norcap & @99funding
LinkedIn: Jim Dowd
LinkedIn: 99Funding
About Jim Dowd
Jim Dowd has 30 years of experience in global financial markets. He is founder and managing director of the North Capital companies, which include North Capital Private Securities (NCPS), a registered broker-dealer focused on the distribution of private funds and the securities of private companies, North Capital Inc., a registered investment advisor, and North Capital Investment Technology, a financial technology company that develops and licenses transaction software for financial institutions and other companies to conduct private offerings. NCPS is the designated broker-dealer for a number of securities funding platforms in the seed equity, real estate and private fund markets.
Prior to founding North Capital in 2008, Dowd spent 23 years in international financial and securities markets based in New York, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and San Francisco. He was previously Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns, where he managed the hedge fund platform and advisory business from 2003 to 2008. Dowd is a CFA charterholder and a CPA, and he holds the Series 3, 7, 24, 63, and 65 securities licenses. North Capital Private Securities is a member of FINRA and SIPC.
Mr. Dowd is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he earned a bachelor’s of science in Foreign Service (BSFS), majoring in international economics, finance and commerce. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a Certified Public Accountant.
In Episode 37 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio Carl Richards, the New York Times' "Sketch Guy", and Christopher Cahill discuss Carl's new book, 'The One-Page Financial Plan: A Simple Way to be Smart About Money'. Principal questions: Why are even financially sophisticated persons afraid of dealing with their own financial plans? How should our financial plans relate to our fundamental values? What questions should we ask any professional advisor? Where did those great sketches of Carl's come from?
You can find out more about Carl Richards and his book here and here.
Or you can find him here:
Twitter: @behaviorgap
Google+
Soundcloud
About Carl Richards
Carl Richards is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and the director of investor education for the BAM ALLIANCE, a community of over 130 independent wealth management firms throughout the United States.
…our desire for validation comes with some serious blind spots. Income is relative to so many other factors that both the number of dollars earned and how they appear to be spent make for a worthless comparison.
He is the creator of the weekly Sketch Guy column in the The New York Times, and is a columnist for Morningstar Advisor. Carl has also been featured on Marketplace Money, The Leonard Lopate Show, Oprah.com and Forbes.com. In addition, Carl has become a frequent keynote speaker at financial planning conferences and visual learning events around the world.
Through his simple sketches, Carl makes complex financial concepts easy to understand. His sketches also serve as the foundation for his first book, The Behavior Gap: Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things with Money (Portfolio/Penguin). Carl’s art appeared in a solo show at the Kimball Art Center, in Park City, Utah. Other showings include The Parson’s Gallery in New York, The Shultz Museum, and an upcoming exhibit at the Mansion House in London. His commissioned work is on display in businesses and educational institutions across the country. He lives with his family in Park City, Utah.
In Episode 36 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio host Christopher Cahill and Ted Neild, President and Chief Investment Officer of Gresham Partners, LLC discuss the logic of portfolio diversification, the proper understanding of risk, and the role of active management in an appropriate market.
Learn more about Ted Neild and Gresham Partners, LLC here and here.
About Ted Neild
Ted serves as the firm’s President and Chief Investment Officer. In his role as CIO, Ted is responsible for leading Gresham’s Investment Team as it establishes investment themes, identifies opportunities that fit within the firm’s Risk Conscious® investment approach, and sources select investment managers located globally, many of whom are difficult for new investors to access. Ted also shapes the firm’s views on the limitations of commonly accepted investment practices, particularly those that have failed investors during the most difficult market environments. In his role as President, Ted is responsible for setting and leading the firm’s strategic direction and chairing its Operating Committee.
Prior to joining Gresham, Ted served as Chief Investment Officer at Nuveen Asset Management where he was responsible for the firm’s investment activity. In addition to his investment responsibilities, Ted held several positions during his 16 years at Nuveen, including Director of Corporate Strategy and Development and Managing Director of Research and Risk Management.
In Episode 35 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio host Chris Cahill speaks with Sang Lee, founder and CEO of DarcMatter, about how his company's online platform enables accredited investors to invest in hedge funds and private equity groups notwithstanding investment minimums as such entities require.
Learn more about Sang Lee and DarcMatter here and here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @SangIsHere and @DarcMatterHQ
Google+
About Sang H. Lee
Sang H. Lee is the CEO and founder of DarcMatter, an online investment platform providing transparent institutional-level access to alternative investment opportunities. Through its technology solution, DarcMatter enables fund managers, issuers, and investors to more efficiently raise capital and invest.
Sang is a former investment banker and has significant expertise in financial regulations and structuring. He has also been heavily involved with the passing of the JOBS Act and believes in bringing transparency into the private capital markets. Sang has been featured on Bloomberg Radio, Forbes, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, and recognized as a ‘GOOD100 ChangeMaker’ and ‘Under30CEO Entrepreneur to Watch in NYC’. Sang has also been invited to speak at the UN, International CES, National Science Foundation, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He also serves as the President of Korean Startups & Entrepreneurs, a non-profit organization.
Join Accredited Investor Markets Radio this week for Episode 34 as host Christopher Cahill speaks with Scott Picken, founder and CEO of Wealth Migrate, the premier global real estate investment marketplace (with crowdfunding technology). Their discussion covers investing in real estate outside of US borders, i.e., how to make it less opaque but also how to assess risk. Mr. Picken, originally from South Africa, cut his teeth on London real estate and has vast experience in US and Australian markets as well as broad experience in other markets. He also recently published Property Going Global, a book on cross-border real estate investment.
You can learn more about Scott Picken and Wealth Migrate here and here.
Or you can find him here:
Twitter: @Scott_Picken
YouTube
About Scott Picken
Scott Picken is the author of Property Going Global and the founder and CEO of Wealth Migrate, the premier online global real estate investment marketplace. He is an expert in global real estate markets with more than 16 years of experience. Wealth Migrate offers investors access to below-market real estate in first world markets through crowdfunding technology with a low investment minimum of just $10,000 USD. Originally from South Africa, he founded his first real estate investment firm at age 26, International Property Solutions (IPS). Through IPS and Wealth Migrate, he works to realize his vision of revolutionizing the real estate industry through crowdfunding technology to provide a single hub for real estate investors to build wealth and manage their portfolios.
Scott founded Wealth Migrate to provide a single hub for real estate investors to manage their portfolios and build wealth. During the global financial crisis in 2008, he realized the opportunity in investing in undervalued property markets was inspired to capitalize on the growing crowdfunding movement to open access to wealth-building international assets to investors worldwide. Through Wealth Migrate and other channels, Scott is spearheading “The Wealth Movement,” an initiative to inspire entrepreneurism in the upcoming generation of business leaders and to expand access to wealth for all investors.
What are the odds? This week in Episode 33 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio host Chris Cahill continues his conversation with Larry Swedroe about whether it's best to adapt an active or passive investment strategy. They discuss the performance evidence for different investment types as well as the hurdles to achieving alpha and the odds of doing so in active investing.
You can find out more about Larry Swedroe and Buckingham here.
Or you can find him here:
Twitter: @larryswedroe
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/larry-swedroe/8/791/59
About Larry Swedroe
Since joining the firm in 1996, Buckingham’s Director of Research Larry Swedroe has spent his time, talent and energy educating investors on the benefits of evidence-based investing with enthusiasm few can match.
Larry was among the first authors to publish a book that explained the science of investing in layman’s terms, “The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need.” He has since authored seven more books: “What Wall Street Doesn’t Want You to Know” (2001), “Rational Investing in Irrational Times” (2002), “The Successful Investor Today” (2003), “Wise Investing Made Simple” (2007), “Wise Investing Made Simpler” (2010), “The Quest for Alpha” (2011) and “Think, Act, and Invest Like Warren Buffett” (2012).
He has also co-authored six books about investing. His latest work, “The Incredible Shrinking Alpha: And What You Can Do to Escape Its Clutches,” was co-authored with Andrew Berkin and published in January of 2015.
In his role as director of research and as a member of the firm’s Investment Policy Committee and Board of Managers, Larry regularly reviews the findings published in dozens of peer-reviewed financial journals, evaluates the outcomes and uses the result to inform the firm’s formal investment strategy recommendations.
Larry’s dedication to helping others has made him a sought-after national speaker. He has made appearances on national television shows airing on NBC, CNBC, CNN and Bloomberg Personal Finance. Larry is a prolific writer, contributing weekly to multiple outlets including MutualFunds.com and ETF.com.
Before joining Buckingham, Larry was vice chairman of Prudential Home Mortgage. He has held positions at Citicorp as senior vice president and regional treasurer, responsible for treasury, foreign exchange and investment banking activities, including risk management strategies.
Larry holds an MBA in finance and investment from New York University, and a bachelor’s degree in finance from Baruch College in New York.
In Episode 32 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio Kai Trepte, Senior Software Engineer at Harvard University (and co-founder of John Galt Solutions), speaks with host Christopher Cahill about logistics, supply chains, and investment. Their discussion covers how buyer and supplier relationships drive supply chain innovation and how investors may factor supply chain qualities into investment decisions.
You can find Kai Trepte here:
About Kai Trepte
Mr. Kai Trepte Founded John Galt Solutions, Inc. in 1996 and served as its Vice President of Sales and Services. Mr. Trepte is recognized as an industry thought leader in forecasting and supply chain planning. Mr. Trepte has spoken at APICS, the Institute of Business Forecasting, DC Expo, Retail Systems, Consumer Goods Technology, and Supply and Demand Chain Executive. Mr. Trepte has led hundreds of companies as they defined their forecasting, sales and operations planning, inventory management and performance management processes. These companies have generated millions of dollars in cost savings and increased revenue. Mr. Trepte graduated from Macalester College with a degree in Economics and Computer Science. Mr. Trepte is also a Certified Professional Forecaster.
In Episode 31 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio Christopher Cahill interviews Joseph Lake, Global Economist with The Economist Intelligence Unit. Mr. Lake provides context for investment decisions regarding the highly varied economies of the region, identifying areas of likely growth, as well as pertinent risk factors.
You can learn more about Joseph Lake and The Economist Intelligence Unit here.
Or you can find them here:
About Joseph Lake
Joseph Lake is a New York based member of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Forecasting Service.
He is an influential voice on the global economy, providing insight and analysis on the political, economic and business environments. As well as advising multinational corporations, policy makers and private clients, his views are frequently quoted in the international media, including the New York Times, Reuters and Bloomberg.
His specialist subjects include monetary and fiscal policy; commodities; business environments; emerging markets.
Mr Lake is a frequent speaker at external conferences and seminars, and often presents the Economist Intelligence Unit's views on the US and global economies to clients and industry leaders.
Before joining the Economist Intelligence Unit, Mr Lake was an economic advisor to the Tanzanian Ministry of Finance, and he previously worked as a hedge fund custodian in Ireland for leading US financial services group PNC.
He holds degrees in business management from Dublin City University, Ireland, and Reims Management School, France, and subsequently gained a master’s degree in economic development from the University of Nottingham.
In Episode 30 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, Chris Cahill interviews Chad Snee, Editor of Linn’s Stamp News. Their discussion centers around philately… that’s ‘stamp collecting’ to the estimated 2 million casual collectors in the U.S. Chad enlightens the AIMkts Radio audience about the classifications and qualities that may make certain stamps good investment choices, which characteristics to consider when valuing stamps, how stamp values compare to other commodities.
Learn more about philately and Chad Snee by visiting www.linns.com and
www.amosmedia.com.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @charlessnee and @LinnsStampNews
Facebook: Chad Snee and Linn's Stamp News
Pintrest
about.me
Google+
About Chad Snee
Charles "Chad" Snee is the editor of Linn's Stamp News and Scott Publishing Co., both of which are owned by Amos Media Co. of Sidney, Ohio, and Chicago. Scott produces the Scott-brand of postage stamp catalogs, which include the six-volume, worldwide Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue, the Scott Specialized Catalogue of United States Stamps and Covers, and the Scott Classic Specialized Catalogue of Stamps and Covers 1840-1940.
Snee is an accomplished philatelist, with 15 years of professional editorial, reporting and writing experience in the stamp-hobby media. In 1999, he was hired as an associate editor for Linn's Stamp News, where he worked for seven years, eventually rising to senior editor in 2003. Following a Navy Reserve deployment to Afghanistan, Snee joined the Scott editorial staff in 2007. In 2011, he became editor of the Scott catalogs. In January 2014, he assumed his current duties as editor of Linn's and Scott. He enjoys collecting the stamps of Ireland and Scandinavia, as well as United States postal history.
Snee and his wife Lynne have been married for 22 years. They reside in Troy, Ohio, with their three daughters: Katelyn, Charlotte and Margaret.
Explore Peer-to-Peer Lending (P2P) in Episode 29 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio with Peter Renton of Lend Academy and Accredited Investor Markets Managing Editor, Alicia Purdy. Their discussion provides a broad overview of P2P lending, including how it compares to traditional lending methods, how P2P can be a win/win for everyone and what a 'win' looks like, typical investment horizons, strategies for the best returns and how P2P lending can complement an accredited investor's portfolio.
Learn more about Peter Renton and Lend Academy here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @LendAcademy
About Peter Renton
Peter Renton is the founder of Lend Academy Media, the leading educational resource for the peer-to-peer (p2p) lending industry. His blog is the most widely read website about p2p lending and through his writing and video courses he has helped tens of thousands of people understand this new asset class. He is considered the world’s leading expert on p2p lending and often consults with companies looking to enter the space.
He is a partner and co-founder at Lend Academy Investments, an SEC registered investment adviser that offers investment solutions to individual investors. It is committed to delivering superior investment performance in the p2p and online lending lending industries.
He is also the co-founder of the LendIt Conference, the world’s first conference dedicated to the p2p and online lending industries and he is the author of The Lending Club Story, the definitive guide to the world’s largest p2p lender.
Peter Renton has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Fox Business News, the Financial Times, San Francisco Business Times, NY Times, and dozens of finance blogs and smaller publications. His writing has appeared on Techcrunch, NetBanker, LearnBonds, Shareable, Investor Junkie, Free Money Finance and many more. He regularly speaks about peer to peer lending at industry conferences.
Previously, he has started and sold two companies in the label printing industry, including Lightning Labels which was the first all-digital label printer in the U.S. This company was sold to a public company in 2008.
In episode 28 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, Chris Cahill interviews Swati Chaturvedi, Co-Founder and CEO of PropelX, an online investment platform that brings investors to deep technology early-stage companies. "Deep technology" includes, for example, the next generations of genomic sequencing, smart prosthetics, robotic surgery, ultra-capacitor technologies, and cancer therapy. The principal goal of her platform, says Chaturvedi, is to enable diligence in companies that have applications of deep technologies.
You can learn more about Swati and Propel (X) here.
Or you can find her here:
@candiedpecans
About Swati Chaturvedi
Prior to starting Propel(x), Swati worked in management consulting and investing. Most recently, Swati worked at Exigen Capital on IT, Telecom, Travel, and BPO deals. Before this, she sourced and evaluated deals in the Industrial Automation sector with Siemens Venture Capital. Swati is also the co-founder and coordinator of the MIT Alumni Angel Investors group. In working with the group, she saw several ways in which the angel investing process could be improved. Propel(x) is geared toward filling the gap, and making angel investing a more efficient process.
Swati has an MBA from the Sloan School of Management, an M.S. from MIT (Technology and Policy Program) and an M.S. from UC Berkeley (Civil Engineering). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the Indian Institute of Technology. In her spare time, she blows bubbles with her one-year-old and learns about Harry Potter from her seven-year-old. She is a fan of all things sci-fi.
Angels in America and elsewhere is the topic of discussion between David Drake, founder and chairman of LDJ Capital and The Soho Loft Media Group, and Christopher Cahill, host of Accredited Investor Markets Radio. Join them in Episode 27 as they cover angel networks here and abroad; and how angels are recruited into them or drawn in otherwise, creating important stores of early-stage capital to start-ups. Drake also compares trends in angel investor networks in the US versus Europe, based upon his extensive experience in both.
Learn more about David Drake, The Soho Loft and LDJ Capital by visiting www.ldjcaptial.com and thesoholoft.com
You can also find him here:
Twitter: @TheSohoLoft
About David Drake
David Drake is a leading equity expert based in New York. He is the founder and chairman of LDJ Capital, a private equity advisory firm, and of The Soho Loft, an event-driven global financial media company. Mr. Drake is a strong advocate of innovative investing in early-stage equity and the US JOBS Act, for which he lobbied both Congress and the EU Commission. Because of his leading work in this space, he was a US Commerce Department delegate to the EU Commission in Brussels and Rome, and was invited in May 2013 to the White House Champions of Change ceremony in Washington, D.C.
His investment, The Soho Loft, produces and sponsors 150+ global events a year. One such event was produced in April 2013 for the institutional media leader Thomson Reuters, with speakers from Nasdaq, NYSE, KKR and Carlyle Group. He continues to advance innovative investing through his work as an international speaker and regular writer for major publications like Forbes and Thomson Reuters. He has co-authored the book Planet Entrepreneur: The World Entrepreneurship Forum’s Guide to Business Success Around the World and is the author of Crowd Fund Economics.His focus today is to take on board advisory positions at companies, angel networks and venture funds, and to guide them on such topics as international regulations, corporate strategy and fund structures, with emphasis on the growing trend of online investment automation for retail and angel investors.Privately, Mr. Drake has hosted the Harvard Business Club of NY at his home, produced Carnegie Hall concerts and raised funds for the charities Trail Blazers and Best Buddies Carnegie Hall for many years. Today he is a board director of the UBS Charity of the Year, London-based ARCHIVE Global, and is co-chair of the Tree Kangaroo Foundation in New York.Born in Sweden and fluent in six languages, Mr. Drake has an MBA in Finance and an MA in International Law and Economics from George Washington University, where he was awarded the Wallenberg Scholarship for academic merit.
Learn about how to find great (and safe) investment opportunities this week in Episode 26 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio. Andrew Stephenson of CrowdCheck and Alicia Purdy, Managing Editor of Accredited Investor Markets, examine together different methods for deal sourcing, including bulletin board listings, general ads, and using broker-dealers. They discuss what to look for before you invest, including assessing the credibility of deals and dealers and avoiding fraud.
You can learn more about Andrew Stephenson and CrowdCheck here.
Or you can find them here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/andrew-stephenson/5/a7/7a3
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crowdcheck
Twitter:
@CrowdCheck
@A_D_Stephenson
About Andrew Stephenson
Andrew D. Stephenson, Director of Research Operations and Client Services for CrowdCheck, has a wealth of experience assisting broker-dealers and online funding platforms with objective due diligence on listed and promoted companies offering securities. Since joining CrowdCheck in January 2013, Andrew has worked with a number of funding portals and identified significant oversights and issues with their issuer companies—including defective corporate governance and material inconsistencies and misstatements in offering materials. Andrew works with CrowdCheck’s team of researchers to develop best practices for efficient and effective due diligence for small, online securities offerings.
Prior to joining CrowdCheck, Andrew was involved with evaluating internal company communications and reports as part of complex civil litigation matters. Andrew has also worked for the United States Congress. While there, Andrew evaluated and drafted policy on a range of issue areas.
Andrew received his B.A. from Claremont McKenna College and graduated, cum laude, from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. During law school, Andrew served as Executive Articles Editor for the Hastings Business Law Journal, as an intern with Promontory Financial Group, and as a law clerk with a small law firm in Washington, DC. Andrew is a member of the State Bar of California and the District of Columbia Bar. Andrew is also a happy husband, new father, San Francisco Giants fan, and music lover.
What are the odds? This week in Episode 25 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio host Chris Cahill speaks to Larry Swedroe to find out whether it's best to adapt an active or passive investment strategy. They discuss the performance evidence for different investment types as well as the hurdles to achieving alpha and the odds of doing so in active investing.
You can find out more about Larry Swedroe and Buckingham here.
Or you can find him here:
Twitter: @larryswedroe
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/larry-swedroe/8/791/59
About Larry Swedroe
Since joining the firm in 1996, Buckingham’s Director of Research Larry Swedroe has spent his time, talent and energy educating investors on the benefits of evidence-based investing with enthusiasm few can match.
Larry was among the first authors to publish a book that explained the science of investing in layman’s terms, “The Only Guide to a Winning Investment Strategy You’ll Ever Need.” He has since authored seven more books: “What Wall Street Doesn’t Want You to Know” (2001), “Rational Investing in Irrational Times” (2002), “The Successful Investor Today” (2003), “Wise Investing Made Simple” (2007), “Wise Investing Made Simpler” (2010), “The Quest for Alpha” (2011) and “Think, Act, and Invest Like Warren Buffett” (2012).
He has also co-authored six books about investing. His latest work, “The Incredible Shrinking Alpha: And What You Can Do to Escape Its Clutches,” was co-authored with Andrew Berkin and published in January of 2015.
In his role as director of research and as a member of the firm’s Investment Policy Committee and Board of Managers, Larry regularly reviews the findings published in dozens of peer-reviewed financial journals, evaluates the outcomes and uses the result to inform the firm’s formal investment strategy recommendations.
Larry’s dedication to helping others has made him a sought-after national speaker. He has made appearances on national television shows airing on NBC, CNBC, CNN and Bloomberg Personal Finance. Larry is a prolific writer, contributing weekly to multiple outlets including MutualFunds.com and ETF.com.
Before joining Buckingham, Larry was vice chairman of Prudential Home Mortgage. He has held positions at Citicorp as senior vice president and regional treasurer, responsible for treasury, foreign exchange and investment banking activities, including risk management strategies.
Larry holds an MBA in finance and investment from New York University, and a bachelor’s degree in finance from Baruch College in New York.
In Episode 24 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, Brendan Ross of Direct Lending Investments and host Chris Cahill discuss how Direct Lending Investments' fund pools high-yielding, 6-18 month business notes and what approaches may help diversify and mitigate risks in the pool. Mr. Ross also comments on peer-to-peer lending in general, including how, and why, the investment method attracts borrowers once served by community banks. Additionally, the discussion touches on what the consequences may be for P2P in a new period of severe financial distress.
You can learn more about Brendan Ross and Direct Lending Investments here.
Or you can find him here:
Twitter: @brendan_ross
YouTube
About Brendan Ross
Brendan Ross is the President of Direct Lending Investments LLC, the general partner of the oldest and largest short-term, high-yield, small business loans fund. An expert in alternative assets, Brendan has directed the purchase of more P2P-originated U.S. small business loans than any other institutional investor. Previously, Brendan was a turnaround CEO and ran a number of companies, including ReserveAmerica and Fanfare Media Works.
Brendan began his career at Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman), where he worked for a variety of clients including United Airlines, Bank of America and AOL. He left Mercer to join MediaOne’s newly formed Strategy Group.
Brendan’s business experiences also include leading a product management team at Ticketmaster, where he received two patents for Ticketmaster Auctions. He has served as CEO of a number of companies, including ReserveAmerica, the world’s largest outdoor recreation reservation company, and local advertising leader Fanfare Media Works.
Regularly cited by top-tier media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Investment News, Bloomberg, Fox Business News and others, Brendan is a go-to source for information and analysis concerning the growing P2P and small business lending sectors.
Brendan graduated with honors from Brown University with a double major in economics and sociology. He lives with his wife and two children in La Canada, located just north of Los Angeles.
In Episode 23 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, host Chris Cahill is joined by Jeffrey Lampe, Principal at Hopewell Ventures, for an in-depth discussion of early stage investing and venture capital rounds. Join them to learn about what backing a VC venture entails, what ‘items’ might be on a venture capitalist’s wish list (e.g. guaranteed Board seats), what to watch out for, when it may be a better investment strategy for a VC to borrow and what risks may still be present after the VC rounds have been completed.
You can find out more about Hopewell Ventures and Jeffrey Lampe here.
Or you can find him here: LinkedIn
About Jeffrey Lampe
Mr. Jeffrey J. Lampe, CFA is currently a Principal with Hopewell Ventures, a $110 million Chicago based venture capital and growth equity fund. He previously served as a Senior Associate with Hopewell. He was a Key Team Member involved with the initial formation of Gazelle TechVentures in 1999, providing research and analytical support. He went on to become a Co-Founder and Senior Associate at Gazelle TechVentures in 2000, a $60 million Indianapolis based VC fund. Prior to this, he served as a Senior Associate at Monument Advisors and Monument Capital Partners. He has been directly involved in over $500 million of corporate finance, mezzanine, private equity and venture capital transactions over his career. He currently serves as a Director of Video Home Tours (VHT), National Pasteurized Eggs (NPE), and several other high growth companies. He was formerly a Director of SageQuest and Pioneer Surgical Technology. Mr. Lampe is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Member of the CFA Society of Chicago. He received an M.B.A., with high honors, from the University of Notre Dame and a B.S. in Business from Purdue University.
Collecting rare coins, the once-named “hobby of kings” has grown to become the “king of hobbies”, with people from all walks of life getting into the game. In Episode 22, investors will learn the basics of numismatic investing with rare coins dealer and coin expert Ilya Zlobin of Trusted Coins. Accredited Investor Markets Radio host Chris Cahill has an in-depth discussion with Zlobin about ancient coin quality and factors that affect value as well as what the coolest coins are on the market right now.
You can find out more about Ilya Zlobin and ancient numismatic coins here and here.
Or he can be found here:
Twitter: @trustedcoins
About Ilya Zlobin
Ilya Zlobin is an expert, author, enthusiast and dealer in ancient coins. He has authored the book: Guide to Collecting and Investing in Numismatic Ancient Greek and Roman Coins. Ilya is world-renowned for his knowledge in this field having worked with over 46,000 ancient coins and having over 10 years experience in this field selling coins. He continues writing articles and making videos educating the public about the wonders of ancient coins. His belief is that anything worth doing is worth doing well. He has a selection of thousands of different ancient coins available through his website , http://www.TrustedCoins.com
In Episode 21 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, host Christopher Cahill chats with John Lee Dumas, host of the Entrepreneur on Fire podcast, about his extensive experience with entrepreneurs. Mr. Dumas 'ignites' the AIMkts listeners with great insight and perspective on investing in start-ups, drawing from his wealth of personal knowledge and stories of entrepreneurs' experiences (both successes and failures) and all the wisdom that comes with hindsight.
You can find out more about John Lee Dumas and his podcast, Entrepreneur on Fire, here.
Or you can find him here:
Twitter: @johnleedumas
About John Lee Dumas
John Lee Dumas is the Founder and Host of EntrepreneurOnFire, awarded 'Best of iTunes 2013'. John interviews today's most inspiring and successful Entrepreneurs 7-days a week and has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Success, INC, & TIME Magazine. John has turned EntrepreneurOnFire into a business that generates over $250,000 a month & shares all the details via his monthly income reports at EOFire.com/income. John also founded the #1 Podcasting community in the world; Podcasters' Paradise; a community where over 1500 Podcasters learn how to create, grow, and monetize their podcast in a supportive environment. EntrepreneurOnFire generates over 850,000 unique listens a month & recaps of these 750 plus episodes and MUCH more can be found at EOFire.com.
Join us for Episode 20 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, a discussion with Ron Miller of StartEngine. Host and Managing Editor of AccreditedInvestorMarkets.com, Alicia Purdy, chats with Ron about why unaccredited investors could be a boon, rather than a threat, to crowdfunding. Ron also weighs in on the effects unaccredited investors can have in the startup space, how an accredited investor can best navigate this new territory and what StartEngine has been working on, including growing an equity crowdfunding platform.
You can find out more about crowdfunding and equity crowdfunding by visiting www.aimkts.com
You can learn more about Ron Miller and StartEngine here.
He can also be found here:
Ron Miller Twitter: @ronstartengine
StartEngine Twitter: @StartEngineLA
Ron Miller: LinkedIn
StartEngine : LinkedIn
About Ron Miller:
Ronald D. Miller is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur having visualized, founded built and sold five companies through management buyouts, private equity firms, private investors and public markets. Ron’s success has been publicly recognized as a four time Inc. 500/5000 Award recipient and as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year Award Finalist. As a Venture Partner, Ron brings his deep expertise as a leader and operator at many companies which he has taken to exit.
Currently, Ron is a partner in StartEngine, LA's largest tech accelerator. He is helping to find, screen and fund new technology related start-ups and build an equity crowdfunding platform company.
Ron also serves as CEO of Disability Group, Inc. leading a team in achieving the strategic objective of helping thousands of disabled Americans secure benefits.
Ron received his BA in Business Administration with distinction from Michigan State University – Broad College of Business and proceeded to earn his Juris Doctorate from the University of Detroit School of Law.
He is especially passionate about cause-based entrepreneurship and holds the trademark for "Doing Well by Doing Good."
Investing in startups is different than other types of alternative investing, with unique challenges and opportunities. In Episode 19 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, entrepreneurial 'it' girl, Diana Kander, discusses what to look for on both the investment and entrepreneurial side of a start-up. Her discussion with AccreditedInvestorMarkets.com Managing Editor, Alicia Purdy, covers how an angel investor can help or hurt a start-up, how to avoid executing a flawed plan, how to learn and move on from a failure and how identify a perfect match between investor and entrepreneur.
Learn more about Diana Kander here.
Or you can find her here:
Twitter: @dianakander
About Diana Kander
As refugees of the Soviet Union, Diana Kander's family escaped to the US when she was 8-years-old. By the time she was an American citizen, she had perfected her skills as a capitalist – selling flea market goods to grade school classmates at a markup.
Today, Diana is a successful entrepreneur, having founded and sold a number of ventures, a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Missouri and a Senior Fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the largest non-profit in the world dedicated to entrepreneurship and education. A Georgetown-educated attorney who left a successful practice to launch her first company, Diana draws on her experience as a founder, investor, and academic to design and implement curriculum in educational institutions and the private sector.
Diana is the author of All In Startup, a New York Times Bestselling novel outlining lessons for launching successful products through a story of a struggling entrepreneur making his way through the World Series of Poker.
In Episode 18 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, David Drake of The Soho Loft and LDJ Capital, discusses real estate investing and crowdfunding in a comparative perspective with host, Chris Cahill. The conversation moves from the development of accredited investment platforms in real estate debt and equity in the United States to crowdfunding in the U.K., Italy, and elsewhere. For Mr. Drake, when it comes to investment safe havens, be it ever so humble, there's no place like Manhattan real estate.
Learn more about David Drake, The Soho Loft and LDJ Capital by visiting www.ldjcaptial.com and thesoholoft.com
You can also find him here:
Twitter: @TheSohoLoft
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ldjcapital
David Drake is a leading equity expert based in New York. He is the founder and chairman of LDJ Capital, a private equity advisory firm, and of The Soho Loft, an event-driven global financial media company. Mr. Drake is a strong advocate of innovative investing in early-stage equity and the US JOBS Act, for which he lobbied both Congress and the EU Commission. Because of his leading work in this space, he was a US Commerce Department delegate to the EU Commission in Brussels and Rome, and was invited in May 2013 to the White House Champions of Change ceremony in Washington, D.C.
His investment, The Soho Loft, produces and sponsors 150+ global events a year. One such was produced in April 2013 for the institutional media leader Thomson Reuters, with speakers from Nasdaq, NYSE, KKR and Carlyle Group. He continues to advance innovative investing through his work as an international speaker and regular writer for major publications like Forbes and Thomson Reuters. He has co-authored the book Planet Entrepreneur: The World Entrepreneurship Forum’s Guide to Business Success Around the World and is the author of Crowd Fund Economics.His focus today is to take on board advisory positions at companies, angel networks and venture funds, and to guide them on such topics as international regulations, corporate strategy and fund structures, with emphasis on the growing trend of online investment automation for retail and angel investors.Privately, Mr. Drake has hosted the Harvard Business Club of NY at his home, produced Carnegie Hall concerts and raised funds for the charities Trail Blazers and Best Buddies Carnegie Hall for many years. Today he is a board director of the UBS Charity of the Year, London-based ARCHIVE Global, and is co-chair of the Tree Kangaroo Foundation in New York.Born in Sweden and fluent in six languages, Mr. Drake has an MBA in Finance and an MA in International Law and Economics from George Washington University, where he was awarded the Wallenberg Scholarship for academic merit.
How might private equity and venture capital firms, and other similar capital raisers, change their behavior now that the ban on general solicitation has been lifted? In Episode 17 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, host and Managing Editor of AccreditedInvestorMarkets.com Alicia Purdy, and Sam Houghton of HoughtonPA, speculate on the changes we may be seeing for accredited investors, for platforms, availability of private offerings and even for the job market.
You can learn more about Sam Houghton and HoughtonPA here.
Or you can find him here:
About Sam Houghton
Sam Houghton, of HoughtonPA, is a business attorney and entrepreneurial consultant based in Lakeland, Florida. Mr. Houghton has overseen the successful investment into, and purchase and sale of, more than 50 small market businesses. With a background in supply-chain management consulting and financial analytics, Mr. Houghton is legal counsel and advisor to those select entrepreneurs throughout the United States who possess process-oriented minds and who value the advice of others. He regularly lectures on private equity, succession planning, crowdfunding, and other business-related topics and is a member of the Crowdfunding Intermediary Regulatory Advocates (CFIRA). His writings have appeared in a number of websites and publications, including Accredited Investor Markets™ and Seeking Alpha™. Educational Commentary from Mr. Houghton can be found at www.houghtonpa.com. Mr. Houghton holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance, along with a minor in Economics, from the University of Florida and a Juris Doctor from Stetson University College of Law. He is licensed to practice law in the state of Florida.
Explore how technology is changing real estate finance and investing in Episode 16 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio. This week host Alicia Purdy, Managing Editor of AccreditedInvestorMarkets.com, speaks with Joey Jelinek, Co-Founder and CEO of GroundBreaker.co, about the recent escalation of accessible investment opportunities, why we are only just now seeing technology becoming available to facilitate this change and how GroundBreaker.co's technology is helping to streamline the investing process.
Find out more about Joey and GroundBreaker.co here.
Or you can find them here:
GroundBreaker.co
Joey Jelinek
@JoeyJelinek
@GroundBreakerCo
About Joey Jelinek
Before founding GroundBreaker, Joey spent his career fundraising for institutional real estate owners on Wall Street. Joey secured over $6 Billion in real estate financings while at CBRE, issued over $8 Billion in real estate securitizations while at Morgan Stanley and collaborated on $435 Million of mixed-use developments while at ZOM. Joey experienced the painful and tedious process of private fundraising when he founded Byron Partners, a small balance real estate investment firm.
Joey’s education includes Cornell (in Business) and Columbia University (Masters with Distinction, in Real Estate). Joey played water polo for both Cornell and Columbia.
In Episode 15 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, host Alicia Purdy, Managing Editor of AccreditedInvestorMarkets.com, chats with Jilliene Helman, CEO of Realty Mogul. Their discussion covers real estate crowdfunding; accessing equity and debt through non-traditional channels; the top three things investors should know before moving ahead with a real estate crowdfunding transaction; and what's trending right now in the market.
You can find more here:
Twitter: @Realty_Mogul
About Jilliene Helman
Jilliene is the CEO and Founder of Realty Mogul. She is responsible for strategic direction, operations and sits on Realty Mogul’s Board of Directors and Investment Committee. Jilliene has underwritten over $5 billion of real estate and was previously a Vice President at Union Bank, where she spent time in Wealth Management, Finance and Risk Management. Jilliene is a Certified Wealth Strategist®, holds Series 7 and Series 63 licenses and has a degree in Business from Georgetown University.
Learn to navigate online investment platforms in Episode 14 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio. This week, host Chris Cahill speaks with Heather Schwarz-Lopes, Co-Founder and CSO of EarlyShares.com, who gives us all the details about navigating online platform investments, like how accredited investors can differentiate between online platforms, how equity crowdfunding online investment platforms work, what to know and watch out for, and how a platform can help mitigate fraud risk.
You can find out more about EarlyShares and Heather Lopes here.
You can also find them here:
Twitter (Heather Lopes): @earlysharesCSO
Twitter (EarlyShares): @earlyshares
LinkedIn: Heather Lopes
LinkedIn: EarlyShares
Heather Schwarz-Lopes, CFP® is an experienced executive with a 16-year track record of success in the financial services industry. Heather has an established reputation as a solutions-driven leader with expertise in wealth management, business development, strategic planning, relationship management, and entrepreneurship.
As Co-Founder and CSO of EarlyShares, a leading equity crowdfunding platform, Heather enables individuals and companies to leverage new regulations to capitalize on new investing and capital raising opportunities. Prior to founding EarlyShares, Heather served as Sr. Vice President and Sr. Private banker at Wells Fargo-The Private Bank. She collaborated with a six-person team to manage more than $500M in assets.
Have you heard about the "Baby Boomer Tsunami"? In Episode 13 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio host Chris Cahill speaks with Jerry Mills of B2BCFO, who coined the term. Other topics include: When should you seek legal advice when investing in the purchase of businesses? What illusions might a seller business have indulged in, and how might they become an investor's problem down the road?
Learn more about Jerry Mills and B2BCFO here.
Or you can find them here:
Twitter: @b2bcfo, @jerrylmills
LinkedIn - B2BCFO
LinkedIn - Jerry Mills
About Jerry Mills
Jerry L. Mills is the author of business books, public speaker, and founder of B2B CFO® the nation’s largest chief financial services and exit strategies firm. He has more than 30 years of business experience. In 2013, Mr. Mills released a book titled “The Exit Strategy Handbook” – which is a first exit strategy book to also feature a digital dashboard component, allowing business owners to track the progress of preparing their company for sale through a series of organized and easy to follow steps.
Join Accredited Investor Markets Radio host Chris Cahill and ACE Portal’s Carl Torrillo as they discuss democratizing access to capital for deserving companies and, in turn, democratizing access to deal flow for investors. Listeners will learn how this will help stimulate growth in the economy and the role ACE Portal is playing in the process.
Learn more about Carl Torrillo and ACE Portal here.
Or you ca find him here:
LinkedIn: Ace Group Inc.
LinkedIn: Carl Torrillo
Twitter: @ACEportal
Carl is a co-founder of ACE Portal, having joined the Company in 2012, after spending 11 years in investment banking with Citi, Bank of America and CIBC World Markets.
Carl is responsible for the financial and administrative functions of the business. Carl joined the Company in 2012, after spending 11 years in -investment banking with Citi, Bank of America and CIBC World Markets.
Over the course of his career in investment banking, Carl raised in excess of $50 billion in capital for diversified industrial companies. Carl has experience raising capital across the investment grade and high yield debt capital markets, as well as through equity issuance. These offerings were placed through a variety of private and public offering formats. In addition, he acted as an advisor on numerous M&A transactions with an aggregate value of over $15 billion.
Carl was most recently a Director with Citi’s Global Industrials Group, where he focused on large cap diversified industrials.
Carl has a B.S., Magna Cum Laude, from Cornell University.
In Episode 11 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, host Chris Cahill talks with David Drake about trends in investing among family offices. Reflecting on his extensive family office experience in Europe and North America, Drake discusses how the number of wealthy families has grown and how advice given to them has become professionalized. The stakes for the high net worth families are very high, since by the third generation, 85% of wealthy families are no longer wealthy, according to Drake.
Learn more about David Drake at The Soho Loft and LDJ Capital.
You can also find him here:
Twitter: @TheSohoLoft
LinkedIn
About David Drake:
David Drake is a leading equity expert based in New York. He is the founder and chairman of LDJ Capital, a private equity advisory firm, and of The Soho Loft, an event-driven global financial media company. Mr. Drake is a strong advocate of innovative investing in early-stage equity and the US JOBS Act, for which he lobbied both Congress and the EU Commission. Because of his leading work in this space, he was a US Commerce Department delegate to the EU Commission in Brussels and Rome, and was invited in May 2013 to the White House Champions of Change ceremony in Washington, D.C.
His investment, The Soho Loft, produces and sponsors 150+ global events a year. One such was produced in April 2013 for the institutional media leader Thomson Reuters, with speakers from Nasdaq, NYSE, KKR and Carlyle Group. He continues to advance innovative investing through his work as an international speaker and regular writer for major publications like Forbes and Thomson Reuters. He has co-authored the book Planet Entrepreneur: The World Entrepreneurship Forum’s Guide to Business Success Around the World and is the author of Crowd Fund Economics.His focus today is to take on board advisory positions at companies, angel networks and venture funds, and to guide them on such topics as international regulations, corporate strategy and fund structures, with emphasis on the growing trend of online investment automation for retail and angel investors.Privately, Mr. Drake has hosted the Harvard Business Club of NY at his home, produced Carnegie Hall concerts and raised funds for the charities Trail Blazers and Best Buddies Carnegie Hall for many years. Today he is a board director of the UBS Charity of the Year, London-based ARCHIVE Global, and is co-chair of the Tree Kangaroo Foundation in New York.Born in Sweden and fluent in six languages, Mr. Drake has an MBA in Finance and an MA in International Law and Economics from George Washington University, where he was awarded the Wallenberg Scholarship for academic merit.
In Episode 10 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, host Chris Cahill speaks with Charles Smith, founder and managing partner of Pegasus Intellectual Capital Solutions, a boutique investment bank, about the great growth and diversity of investment opportunities in agriculture and aquaculture. Their discussion will also include an exploration of investment opportunities driven by astounding technological advances in robotic tillage and in farming seafood.
Learn more about alternative investments here.
Find out more about Charles and Pegasus ICS here.
Or you can find him here:
LinkedIn: Charles Smith
LinkedIn: Pegasus Invellectual Capital Soluctions LLC
Charles Smith is the founder and Managing Partner of Pegasus Intellectual Capital Solutions, a boutique investment bank engaged in corporate finance related to mergers and acquisitions – including cross-border – exit planning, capital raising, restructuring and workout, and creating and executing shareholder value maximization strategies. PegasusICS is headquartered in Chicago, Ill., and operates across the U.S. as well as internationally. They are innovators in advising clients on how to design corporate governance structures for the increasingly challenging Knowledge Era, and in advising clients on how to improve value creation via knowledge management through the use of their proprietary Intellectual Capital AuditTM. They are the sole U.S, representative of Acquisitions International and were named 2013 Investment Banking Boutique of the Year by Acquisition Finance Magazine.
Dive into the fascinating world of managed futures with Accredited Investor Markets Radio. In Episode 9, AIMkts Managing Editor Alicia Purdy explores this asset class with Richard Roscelli, an investment advisor with Cathay Consultants Ltd. Richard is also licensed futures broker. In their discussion, Richard covers many aspects of managed futures including the opportunities/risks they offer when incorporated into traditional financial portfolios, how to develop an effective allocation as well as how the sector performs versus traditional asset classes.
You can learn more about Attain Capital Management by visiting www.attaincapital.com
Or you can find Richard Roscelli here:
Twitter: @richardroscelli
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pub/richard-roscelli-mba/68/439/2b1
Richard K. Roscelli is an Investment Advisor Representative and futures broker with Attain Capital Management and an Investment Advisor with Cathay Consultants. Both are located in the Las Vegas Nevada area. His practice incorporates traditional and alternative investments strategies which focus on seeking unique opportunities for growth & income by incorporating traditional and non-correlated market instruments tailored to individual financial goals and risk tolerances.
Investment Advisory Service offered through Cathay Consultants Ltd, a Registered Investment Advisor. Cathay Consultants Ltd is a fee-only Registered Investment Advisor in accordance with the Investment Advisor's Act of 1940 and is registered with the Nevada Secretary of State. The fees we receive are for the advice and management we provide. Please refer to our form ADV disclosures brochure for complete details concerning our advisors, compensation, and the services we provide.
Futures Trading and Managed Futures instruments and services offered through Attain Capital Management (www.attaincapital.com). There is a high degree of risk involved in futures trading & it is possible to lose more than the original investment. Past Performance is not indicative of any future results. Only risk capital should be committed to futures trading or Managed Futures Programs.
What is Impact Investing? In Episode 8 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, host Alicia Purdy speaks with Alon Goren, Founder of Invested.In, to explore socially conscious investing. Their discussion will cover different investment opportunities for the socially aware investor, what sort of due diligence is required for these types of investments and how impact investing could change the way aid is rendered in the future.
Learn about a variety of investment options by visiting www.aimkts.com
Learn more about Invested.in and Alon Goren by visiting invested.in
Or find him here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alongoren
Twitter:
@alonymous
@investedin
Alon Goren is the CEO and co-founder of InvestedIn – a leading technology company that specializes in white-label crowdfunding platforms for reward, donation, pre-sales, equity crowdfunding and lending applications, and of INVST, an invite-only investment platform for sophisticated accredited investors to invest in institutional-quality deals. A thought leader on social enterprise and crowdfunding, Alon has spoken at South by Southwest V2V and the Crowdfunding Professional Association’s Annual Crowdfund Investing Innovation Forum and has been featured in The Washington Post, Forbes, Mashable, and The Street. Alon was named as one the socalTECH 50 that recognizes the top 50 top technology leaders in Southern California.
In Episode 7, Accredited Investor Markets Radio host Chris Cahill talks real estate investing with David Manshoory, Founder and CEO of AssetAvenue. Their discussion includes the risks and rewards of equity and debt investing, the advantages to using a platform for investing in debt offerings, and they also share specifics on what an Accredited Investors should look for when selecting a platform.
Learn more about real estate investing by visiting www.accreditedinvestormarkets.com
Learn more about David Manshoory and AssetAvenue by visiting www.assetavenue.com/about
You can also find David here:
Twitter: @DavidMansoory
@assetavenue
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/assetavenue
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/assetavenue?trk=top_nav_home
David Manshoory is the Founder and CEO of AssetAvenue, an online marketplace that allows investors to invest directly in high quality commercial real estate properties, providing passive cash flows from previously inaccessible investment opportunities. David has 10 years of experience in commercial real estate acquisitions, due diligence and management. He previously founded Momentum Capital Partners, an investor-backed real estate fund, and worked in acquisitions and development at a number of notable real estate investment companies, where he evaluated the financial returns of over $1 billion of commercial real estate projects.
In Episode 6 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, host Chris Cahill and Jesse Clem, the co-founder and CEO of Loquidity, talk about investing in real estate. Their discussion includes changes in how real estate investment opportunity and accredited investors find one another, changes in state law that abet the JOBS Act in encouraging general solicitation of accredited investors, and potential advantages for investors presented by a regionally-focused real estate investment platform.
You can learn more about investing in real estate by visiting www.accreditedinvestormarkets.com
You can learn more about Jesse Clem and Loquidity by visiting www.loquidity.com
You can also find them on Twitter at:
@loquidity
@jesseclem
Jesse Clem is the cofounder and CEO of Loquidity, bringing more than 15 years of experience as a senior leader at Fortune 500 corporations within the IT industry to bear in developing a seamless user experience for Loquidity’s community of investors. Aspiring to disrupt the traditionally opaque real estate investment process, he helped found the company to bring high quality opportunities to a wide range of investors, catering to those interested in revitalizing their local communities. He is also a seasoned investor with more than seven years’ experience investing in multifamily and commercial real estate.
Jesse has a unique ability to blend business, real estate and technology into his ventures, having launched and sold numerous successful enterprises. In addition to his extensive personal real estate portfolio, he also created a hard money lending capital company to provide debt financing for numerous projects in the West Michigan area. He received his Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Taylor University and also holds an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
In Episode 5 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio our host, Chris Cahill, has an in-depth discussion about investing in start-ups with guest, Brian Thopsey. Brian is the founder of FundWisdom, whose purpose is to provide companies with financial wisdom and help them select the best crowdfunding platform to meet their needs.
In this interview they discuss., among other things, differences between equity and debt investing platforms for Accredited Investors, and the roles angel investor play in start-ups.
You can find out more about investing in startups by visiting our site, www.acccreditedinvestormarkets.com
You can learn more about Brian Thopsey and Fund Wisdom by visiting www.fundwisdom.com
Brian Thopsey, founder of FundWisdom, is passionate about technology, the startup community, and financial valuation. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Master of Science in Finance. He has extensive knowledge and years of experience building new technologies, valuation techniques, financial engineering, and business intelligence.
In Episode 4 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, our host, Chris Cahill, explores investing in natural resources with Jason Stevens. Jason is an Investment Executive with Sprott Global, a U.S. broker-dealer focused on natural resource sectors including precious metals, base metals, oil & gas, agriculture, water, and alternative energy. Their discussion focuses on how to evaluate investment opportunities in different types of natural resources, including uranium, and what options or risks there are to potential Accredited Investors.Learn more about investing in alternative assets by visiting us at www.aimkts.com
Learn more about Jason Stevens by visiting http://sprottglobal.com/our-team/jason-stevens/
Jason Stevens is a natural resource specialist and Investment Executive for Sprott Global Resource Investments. He is dedicated to helping accredited investors create personalized investment portfolios focused on natural resources. His article, “Food Scarcity Risk Creates Need for Investment” can be found here.
Jason has spent the last 12 years working closely with mining and petroleum engineers, influential industry executives, and economic geologists. A dedicated self-starter, Jason started his career with Sprott on the equity trading desk where he honed his understanding of domestic and foreign equity, commodity and currency markets.
Jason has been a featured contributor to industry sites such as Resource Investing News, Financial Survival Network, and The Contrarian Investor Podcast.
Jason is a supporter and promoter of the Austrian School of Economics and spends his free time instructing Krav Maga, the official self-defense system of Israel Defense Force.
Why aren’t accredited investors investing? In Episode 3 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, Alicia Purdy, Managing Editor of AccreditedInvestorMarkets.com, interviews founder and CEO of OfferBoard, Chris Tyrrell, to discuss some of the reasons alternative assets are getting passed up by accredited investors. Chris offers his insights into various alternative investment options and how they compare to traditional investment methods and he also offers advice on where accredited investors can start if they are interested in diversifying.
To learn more about alternative investment options visit our site, www.aimkts.com
To learn more about Chris Tyrrell visit http://www.offerboard.com/about.asp
He can also be found here:
Twitter: @christyrrell
Linkedin: Christopher Tyrrell
https://www.facebook.com/OfferBoard
Chris is the founder and CEO of OfferBoard, an equity securities private placement platform that matches accredited investors with mid-market businesses looking to raise capital.
He is chairman of CrowdFund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates, the leading organization for implementing the JOBS Act securities legislation. He has a wealth of expertise in managing and facilitating over $20 billion in transactions, as well as extensive experience in financial law, technology and investment management.
There has been much discussion about the changes that may be coming in the wake of the recent SEC Investor Advisory Committee meeting, where they considered changing the definition of the term Accredited Investor. In Episode 2 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, Alicia Purdy explores what this proposal means with guest, Robert Rapp. Robert, a partner in the Securities and Capital Markets Practice of Calfee, Halter & Griswold, LLP. He weighs in on the impact of changing this definition, the thought process behind it and what to expect moving forward.
Learn more about SEC Regulations and what it means to be an Accredited Investor by visiting our site, www.aimkts.com
Learn more about Robert Rapp by visiting http://calfee.com/attorney/robert-n-rapp/
Bob is Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he teaches Securities Regulation and Law, Theory and Practice in Financial Markets. Bob is also a partner in the Securities and Capital Markets Practice of Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP in Cleveland, Ohio. He handles financial market regulatory, compliance and related administrative and civil litigation matters, for a wide range of market participants and financial intermediaries. Bob is a noted author in the field of securities law and financial market regulation. His work has been published in numerous law journals and cited by courts including the United States Supreme Court. He lectures frequently on capital markets issues. Bob is the author of Blue Sky Regulation, the definitive treatise on state securities regulation in the United States, and is a principal contributing author for Federal Securities Act of 1933 (Matthew Bender Lexis/Nexis).
In the debut Episode of Accredited Investor Markets Radio our host, Chris Cahill, explores the significance of new changes in the JOBS Act with guest, Vanessa Schoenthaler. Vanessa, a New York securities attorney and founder of firm Qashu & Schoenthaler, explains what it means to be an accredited investor and the importance of lifting the ban against general solicitation.
Learn more about alternative investments and the JOBS Act by visiting our site, www.aimkts.com
Learn more about Vanessa Schoenthaler by visiting qsllp.com
Ms. Schoenthaler’s practice focuses on complex business transactions, securities law, corporate finance, regulatory compliance and general corporate matters.
She advises individuals and foreign and domestic public and private entities with regard to a wide range of undertakings, including fund formation and operation, private equity and venture capital transactions, private placements of equity, debt and hybrid securities, initial, secondary and alternative public offerings, exchange listings, corporate restructurings, mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures and strategic alliances and matters of corporate governance and regulatory compliance.
She also advises individuals and entities with regard to an array of general corporate matters, including company formations, executive compensation, corporate governance, employment and consulting agreements, equity compensation plans, technology and licensing agreements and all manner of commercial contracts.