Karen Barr, CEO of the Investment Adviser Association joins Bruce, flying solo today as Jeff hosts our own RIA summit, to chat all things advisory business. Nicole Casperson joins Bruce to discuss how tech is reshaping account aggregation.
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Guest Bio: Karen Barr is a native Washingtonian. She received her B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985 and her law degree, cum laude, from the University of Michigan in 1988, where she was an editor on the Journal of Law Reform. After law school, Karen served as law clerk to the Honorable Walter E. Black, Jr., a federal judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. From 1989 until March 1997, when she joined the IAA, Karen was in private practice at the Washington, D.C. law firm Wilmer Cutler & Pickering, where she represented clients with respect to SEC investigations, securities class action litigation, administrative proceedings, internal corporate investigations, and securities regulatory matters. Karen is a member of the District of Columbia Bar.
Bruce this week speaks with Mark Goldberg, who has worked as a senior executive with Royal Alliance Associates, now Osaic, Carey Financial and Griffin Capital Securities about the current market for alternative investments, including private loan and BDC funds.
Bruce Kelly talks to local Rhode Island reporter Eli Sherman about the former nontraded REIT czar, Nick Schorsch, and his group’s investments in beloved local eateries in the Ocean State.
Bruce Kelly speaks to longtime compliance expert Sander Ressler about elder fraud, artificial intelligence and GWG Holdings and what advisors and their broker-dealers and RIAs should be guarding against.
Bruce Kelly is joined this week by Jeff Vivacqua of Cambridge Investment Research, who breaks down the company's success as a recruiter of financial advisors.