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Thank goodness we diversified

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Our merger with private equity finances our expansion and strengthens our infrastructure, while allowing us to run the firm the way we always have

My business partner and I founded our registered investment adviser from scratch nearly 30 years ago. By, say, 2015, when we’d achieved $2 billion in assets under management, we were, we believed, in the perfect position.

We had a great business model and wanted to grow the business by expandi

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