Power Your Advice

​​ Michael Freedman is the CEO of Lighthouse Life Solutions, who works with financial professionals who advise and assist policyowners with the sale of unwanted, unneeded or unaffordable life insurance policies. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and Michael discuss how Lighthouse can help advisors access the value of their senior clients’ life insurance policies. What life settl...

​​ Weldon Evans is the National Sales Director of ExchangeRight, a real estate investment company that provides REIT, fund and 1031 DST portfolios that target secure capital, stable income and strategic exits for their clients. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and Weldon discuss how ExchangeRight manages real estate investments in order to faithfully steward wealth. The importa...

Mat Dellorso is the Co-Founder of WealthForge, a fintech company that provides technology solutions developed by regulatory experts to streamline investments into alternative securities. Their Altigo platform enables marketplace connections and facilitates alternative investment transactions between advisors and sponsors. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and Mat discuss how the...

​​ Todd Anderson is the founder and managing partner of Anderson Financial Group, one of the leading employee benefits and wealth management firms in the Southwest. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and Todd discuss how the last year has changed how Anderson Financial Group does business, and how being solutions-focused defines how they serve their clients. How their rapid adapt...

Michael Scaplen is the senior vice president of sales and relationship management for Axos Clearing, LLC, a full-service clearing firm that provides flexible clearing solutions focused on empowering introducing broker-dealer and registered investment advisor correspondents to grow their businesses. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and Mike discuss recent changes in the financia...

​​ Bobby Hotaling is the founder of Hotaling Insurance Services, a full-service risk management firm and a global leader in managing the specific risks of the entertainment and sporting industries. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and Bobby discuss how Bobby built the firm from scratch and why advisors should take the time to learn more about insurance for themselves and their...

​​ Christian Munafo is the chief investment officer of Liberty Street Advisors, Inc., and the portfolio manager of the Private Shares Fund ( PRIVX, PIIVX) , which offers individuals, family offices, and institutions an effective means to access the venture-backed asset class. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and Matthew discuss late-stage venture capital investing and why you s...

​​ Matthew Gorelik is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Township Capital, a Los Angeles-based real estate investment manager focused of making programmatic equity investments alongside best-in-class sponsors and institutional equity investors nationwide. He & his team are unique in their ability to identify and invest in opportunities throughout the commercial real estate capital stack and acro...

Barrett Ayers is the President of Adhesion Wealth, a leading provider in outsourced managed account solutions.  In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and Barrett discuss direct indexing – what it is, how it works, and why you should consider it for your clients’ portfolios. The history of direct indexing, and how it has become available outside pooled vehicles The potential tax bene...

​​ Matt Hougan is the chief investment officer of Bitwise Asset Management, pioneer of the first cryptocurrency index fund and a leading provider of rules-based exposure to the cryptoasset space. He also co-authored the CFA Institute’s research foundation brief, Cryptoassets: The Guide to Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency for Investment Professionals .  In this episode of Power Your Advice, D...

ETFPortfolios.com is an investment advisory service that offers a contemporary, common-sense, analytical approach to navigating modern investment markets.  In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen speaks with chief investment officer Rob Isbitts and financial advisor, Samita Thephasit, from ETFPortfolios.com and Sungarden Investment Management about how the nature of investing has chan...

​​ Ben Way is a well-known crypto expert and entrepreneur. His most recent startup, TokenMaker, is a platform on which users can create tokens and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) with zero code experience. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and ben discuss cryptocurrency, NFTs, and why advisors should learn more about both. What an NFT is What are some of the challenges with this type...

​​ Michael J. Egan is the Founder and President of Gyroscope Capital Management Group, a Naples-based investment advisor with a 12+ year track record of providing low volatility, equity income and custom hedging solutions for individuals and financial advisors. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and Mike discuss Gyroscope’s passion for helping advisors learn and use equity option...

Adam Holt is the CEO and Founder of Asset-Map, an award-winning software platform that combines design thinking and personal finance to help advisors display their clients’ complete financial picture. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and Adam discuss how Asset-Map came to be, and how they strive to help advisors deliver exactly what their clients want: clarity and simplicity. H...

​​ David Aferiat is the founder & managing partner of Trade-Ideas, which publishes actionable market intelligence to help customers capture alpha in the capital markets. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and David discuss how Trade-Ideas makes technology normally available to hedge funds available to financial advisors and investors. How Trade-Ideas makes artificial intellig...

​​ Jaime Golden is president of Acquisitions at Kingswood U.S., and spends most of his time working with financial advisors who are considering or working through full or partial acquisitions of their firms. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and Jaime discuss trends Jaime is seeing for both rep movement and M&A in our industry. Why might an advisor consider changing firms Th...

​​ Perrin Quarshi is the Founder & CEO of RealBlocks, an online platform that provides access and liquidity for alternative investments. RealBlocks democratizes access to alternatives by lowering the required minimum investment amount, providing international access, and allowing for investor liquidity via secondary trading. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and Perrin discu...

Ernest Jonson is a Partner and an Executive Managing Director with ApexOne Investment Partners, a privately-held real estate investment firm and fund manager that identifies, acquires, enhances and operates multifamily real estate across the country. He focuses on capital markets, investment strategy, financial administration, and investor relations. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heik...

The ups and downs of 2020 gave many advisors pause and forced them to really think about the core of their businesses: Who are our ideal clients? What services should we be offering to them? What should we be charging for those services? And what is the most profitable way we can deliver those services to our ideal clients?  In this episode of Power Your Advice, Adhesion Wealth President, Barrett...

Michael Scaplen is the senior vice president of sales and relationship management at Axos Clearing, a full-service clearing firm and custodian serving introducing broker-dealer and registered investment advisors. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Doug Heikkinen and Michael talk about the importance of being technologically nimble and delivering seamless, outstanding customer service in today’s...

Peter Krull is the Founder, CEO and Director of Investments at Earth Equity Advisors. He focuses on creating and managing Earth Equity’s sustainable, responsible and impact investment portfolios as well as writing thought leadership pieces and sharing the responsible investing story. In today’s episode of Power Your Advice, Pete and Doug Heikkinen discuss the state of sustainable, responsible and...

Chris Blasi is the President of Neptune Global Holdings, LLC, a precious metals dealer and creator of the PMC Ounce, a precious metals composite which combines the four major metals into one investment product that offers the properties of an ETF, but with  one key differentiator  – the investor actually owns the metals, and at any time, can convert the PMC Ounces they own to take physical deliver...

After a couple of months of slowdown, Mergers & Acquisitions (“M&A”) are happening at record levels across the industry. As financial advisors think about ways to grow their business, they may want to consider M&A as one way to achieve benefits of scale, new levels of efficiency within their business, and unlock access to the power of a broader platform.  In this episode of Power Your...

Michael Nessim is the President of Kingswood U.S. and the CEO of Benchmark Advisory Services, LLC. He has been in the financial services industry for more than 24 years and had been involved with investment banking for the last 20 years. In this episode of Power Your Advice, Mike and Doug Heikkinen discuss investment banking – what it is and why financial advisors should consider including it in t...

Adhesion Wealth, Diamond Consultants, and Sanctuary Wealth are all well-known for their laser focus on providing customized solutions to support the widely varied business models and challenges faced by advisors who are looking to go or already have gone independent.  In this episode of Power Your Advice, Adhesion Wealth President, Barrett Ayers, takes the reins and leads a fascinating discussion...