Features September 2018

If you’re a millennial looking to enjoy the same retirement as your grandparents, veteran advisors like Randall Long recommend having a plan in place before the age of 30. Then again, if you’re really ambitious, you can always do what Long did: invest in a mutual fund at 12 years old. “I saw how hard […]

The biblical passage about it being better to give than to receive hit home early for Tad Hill. Son of a farmer father and a social worker mother, the young Hill often accompanied his mom as she tended to the elderly and infirm in and around Birmingham, Alabama. The old and disabled folks took a […]

Even the most capable business person might need assistance when it comes to managing his or her wealth for the long term. To that Scott Freund can well attest. For the easy-going president and founder of Family Office Research in Bethesda, Maryland, has many successful business people and respected professionals among his clientele. When Freund looks at […]

Her name well-known for marketing in the wealth management and family office business, Rosemary Bonilla Denney remembers getting a call a couple of years ago from an unnamed firm that had learned of her via LinkedIn. That firm had impeccable credentials when it came to growing client assets and client services, but it needed help […]

Ted Kakoyiannis was at a point of professional atrophy. As a transactional attorney in the real estate realm, he was negotiating and drafting contracts and loan documents and advocating for his clients—but he wasn’t really creating anything. Then, another possibility began to reveal itself: As his experience grew, he recalls, clients were increasingly asking him […]

Don’t ask the folks at The London Company to predict the future—even a little bit. That’s just not what they do. Instead, their approach is deliberate, measured and simple. Rather than jumping at the shiniest new objects—say, the trendiest and latest IPOs—and essentially betting on uncertainty, their focus is on purchasing companies with sustainable competitive advantages and […]

Stunned by the Great Recession and forced into cost-cutting mode a decade ago, Morgan Stanley turned to outsourcing many of its most critical functions and turned a lot of heads in the process. For if the multinational investment bank was doing it, other companies reasoned they could do so as well, some entrusting their administrative […]

A significant number of his longtime clients being up there in years, Michael P. Murray was most gratified in July, when an organization dear to his heart, North Shore Elder Services, was promoted on billboards and social media by the Peabody Area Chamber of Commerce as part of its Chamber for Good program. For Murray, […]

A one-time construction engineer turned financial adviser, Kenneth Heise sees similarities between the two seemingly dissimilar professions. “We now talk about building a fiscal house as opposed to building a physical structure,” says the founder and president of the St. Louis-based independent retirement planning firm Heise Advisory Group. “It’s a similar thought process, helping to ensure […]

You turn the TV off and walk away, trying not to think about what you’ve just heard: Another 600-point drop in the Dow; another panel of talking heads imploring you to sell. After a few minutes of nervous pacing, you put in a call to the firm managing your portfolio. You’ve been talked off this […]