Zephyr's Adjusted for Risk

Host Ryan Nauman welcomes Jay Hatfield of Infrastructure Capital Advisors to discuss how Federal Reserve policy, rising Treasury yields, oil prices, and tightening financial conditions are shaping markets. Hatfield argues the Fed is overly hawkish, criticizes inflation measurement (especially shelter and PCE), and says higher rates are driving a housing recession and tightening high-yield credit....

Recording from the Steward Symposium, host Ryan Nauman welcomes wealth manager Alicia Fuller to discuss choosing a business structure in wealth management and why she moved from a full-service wirehouse after 40 years to a W-2 role at Steward Partners. Fuller explains she wanted more freedom to serve clients and build her brand without the operational burdens of full independence, and describes ho...

Host Ryan Nauman welcomes Paisley Nardini, Head of Investment Strategy at Tema ETFs, to discuss how calm index-level markets are masking narrow leadership, rising dispersion, shifting rate expectations, and concentration risk in both equity and bond indexes. Nardini explains her multi-asset background and why today’s macro regime and stock-level volatility may create a more favorable backdrop for...

Recorded at the Steward Symposium, host Ryan Nauman interviews Tim Burklow, a 33-year wealth management veteran and wealth advisor in Steward Partners’ Legacy Channel, about succession planning. Burklow explains how his team began planning for the future by developing next-gen advisors—including his two sons and a third advisor—emphasizing the time investment required. He shares why internal succe...

The episode explores two major secular investment themes: aging demographics in America and the continued build-out of artificial intelligence. Ryan welcomes Brock Campbell, Head of Research and Portfolio Manager at BNY Investments Newton, to discuss why senior housing—primarily through healthcare REITs—may benefit from a supply-demand mismatch as baby boomers approach age 80, potentially supporti...

Ryan Nauman interviews Shang Chou, co-founder and managing partner at Dishmi Capital, about how portfolio construction is evolving beyond traditional 60/40 and mean-variance optimization toward maximizing after-tax wealth. Shang shares his Wall Street background (PIMCO, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs), work at Simplify Asset Management, and the personal liquidity-event experience that motivated Dishmi...

Host Ryan Nauman interviews Rob Battista, EVP of Advisory Solutions at Vestmark, about the evolution from traditional one-size-fits-all model portfolios to more personalized custom model investment solutions. Battista explains how models grew from manager-traded SMAs to scalable, lower-cost model delivery, fueled by greater accessibility through marketplaces and asset managers selling total portfo...

Ryan Nauman interviews Bill Davis, managing director and founder of Stance Capital, about whether the cap-weighted S&P 500 has become overly concentrated in mega-cap, highly correlated tech names and how index flows can exacerbate that risk; they discuss equal-weight approaches and why today’s fundamentals differ from the dot-com era, along with potential unwind catalysts tied to AI capex and...

Host Ryan Nauman interviews Brad Kreidle, founder and president of MainLine West, about navigating the large, fragmented municipal bond market and why MainLine West was created to improve transparency and efficiency by operating at a wholesale level with its own broker-dealer. Kreidle explains how higher interest rates after the ZIRP era have made municipals attractive on a taxable-equivalent basi...

Ryan Nauman discusses rapid ETF growth and key industry trends with Steve Foy, Senior Vice President of Trading at Tidal Financial Group. Foy explains Tidal’s full-stack ETF platform and ongoing support for clients, from product development and SEC filings to trading and operations. They highlight active ETFs as a major shift from traditional indexing, the surge in defined outcome/buffered and der...

Host Ryan Nauman welcomes Ethan Powell, Principal and CIO at Brookmont Capital Management, to discuss catastrophe bonds and how they help insurers transfer tail risks from natural disasters while offering investors potential income and diversification. Powell explains how fully cash-collateralized 144A cat bonds work, including triggers, attachment points, and how returns combine SOFR earned on co...

Host Ryan Nauman welcomes Matt Halloran (“Matt GPT”), Chief Evangelist at Zocks, to discuss how AI is affecting wealth management and why many advisors still underuse it due to fear, unrealistic expectations, compliance concerns, and industry noise. Halloran argues advisors are only scratching the surface with note-taking and content tools, while the bigger opportunity is integrating structured da...

On the Adjusted for Risk podcast, host Ryan Nauman interviews Haren Bhakta, founder and CEO of the Inside Ownership Index, who explains how the S&P 500’s free-float weighting effectively underweights shares held by controlling insiders and can end up buying more of founder-led companies after key leaders die. Bhakta describes manually compiling 20 years of S&P 500 proxy filings to aggregat...

Recorded live at Wealth Management EDGE, host Ryan Nauman welcomes Nate Lenz, co-founder and CEO of Concurrent, to discuss shifts in wealth management and the rise of NextGen advisors. Lenz explains Concurrent’s platform model supporting independent wealth managers by handling middle and back office functions while preserving advisor autonomy, and highlights growth to supporting over 90 firms, plu...

From Lake Tahoe on the Adjusted for Risk podcast, Ryan Nauman welcomes back Adam Patti, CEO of VistaShares, to discuss how innovation in ETFs is bringing sophisticated strategies to retail investors and reshaping portfolio construction. Patti shares VistaShares’ focus on building a small set of differentiated products, noting the firm launched its first ETF in December 2024 and has grown to over $...

Recorded on location at the Steward Symposium, Ryan Nauman welcomes Maria Condon, Chief of Staff at Steward Partners, to discuss how the firm’s culture is built, reinforced, and scaled amid rapid growth. Maria explains why the annual three-day symposium exists, what makes its energy and access to leadership unique, and how in-person connection complements content like newsletters and podcasts. She...

From the “Adjusted for Risk” podcast, host Ryan Nauman interviews Wayne Penello, founder and CEO of NextGen EMP, about practical risk management for investors and advisors. Penello shares his background as a NYMEX options market maker and commodity risk consultant, emphasizing translating risk into meaningful metrics like budget outcomes and drawdowns rather than simple volatility. He argues advis...

Ryan Nauman hosts Zephyr’s Adjusted for Risk podcast with guest Phil Palumbo, CEO/CIO of Palumbo Wealth Management and host of the Palumbo Pulse, to discuss aging demographics and implications for retirement planning and advisors. Palumbo describes leaving UBS to go independent for fiduciary alignment, better economics, and broader investment access, and explains his firm’s focus on helping founde...

From Zephyr’s Adjusted for Risk podcast, Ryan Nauman interviews Jim Jessup, income strategist at Virtus ETF Solutions, about ETF innovation and today’s fixed income environment. Jessup explains Virtus’s product-development approach: focus on commercially viable ETFs where managers can add alpha rather than chasing trends, and notes some highly specific ETFs may close or the industry may consolidat...

Recording on location at the Steward Symposium, host Ryan Nauman welcomes Scott Danner (Chief Growth Officer) and Valerie Rivera (Chief Operating Officer) of Steward Partners to discuss growth in wealth management, where organic expansion has become harder and M&A has become a major driver. Danner shares his background building Freedom Street Partners and joining Steward in 2023, noting Stewar...

Ryan Nauman hosts Zephyr’s Adjusted for Risk podcast and speaks with Eden Ovadia, co-founder and CEO of Finny AI, about why organic growth is a major challenge for financial advisors and why reliance on M&A has made firms complacent and increasingly capital-inefficient as multiples rise. Ovadia explains that referrals still drive most industry growth but are largely passive, pushing ambitious...

Ryan Nauman hosts Zephyr’s Adjusted for Risk podcast from Lake Tahoe and welcomes Zach Conway, CEO of Seeds, to discuss how evolving investor expectations are reshaping wealth management. Conway explains he founded Seeds after seeing a disconnect between advisors’ strong client discovery and the shallow, product-centered approach often used in investment management, alongside inefficient, fragment...

In this episode of Zephyr’s Adjusted for Risk, host Ryan Nauman speaks with Joe DaGrosa, CEO and founder of Axxes Capital and co-author of The Financial Advisor’s Guide to Private Investments, about the growing access retail investors have to private markets and the unique risks involved. DaGrosa explains how regulations have historically limited non-qualified purchasers, why registered vehicles a...

Ryan Nauman hosts Zephyr’s Adjusted for Risk podcast with Robert Cohen, Director of Global Developed Credit at DoubleLine, to discuss why bonds face bearish sentiment amid elevated Treasury yields and how advisors should think about fixed income today. Cohen frames the macro backdrop as “war and AI,” citing Middle East conflict-driven oil constraints that could push core CPI above 4% and keep infl...

Recorded on location at the Steward Symposium, host Ryan Nauman welcomes Jim Gold, CEO of Steward Partners, to discuss the rapid evolution of wealth management and how Steward is positioning itself to lead. Gold shares his background from Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and explains Steward’s execution-focused growth, describing “unstoppable” momentum and a culture built on respect, r...