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15th Jul 2026

Stop Using Generic Marketing: Do This Instead

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 firms to adopt more proactive prospecting and marketing strategies. They discuss how AI raises the bar for standing out, making niche specialization and sharp messaging more important, and why personalization matters from the first prospect interaction in a trust-based business. Ovadia describes how AI can automate prospect identification, segmentation, outreach, and content to book meetings, letting advisors focus on client relationships, and shares FINNY’s approach and her experience working with Josh Brown.

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Learn more about FINNY: https://finny.com/

00:00 Welcome and Sponsor

01:14 Meet Eden and FINNY

04:01 Josh Brown Story

05:56 M&A vs Organic Growth

08:03 Referrals and Limits

09:37 Why Prospecting Is Hard

11:18 AI and Niche Targeting

14:40 Personalization Builds Trust

16:45 Scaling and Automation

22:30 Future of Growth Tech

24:32 Where to Learn More

25:11 Closing and Subscribe

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Ryan Nauman Market Strategist Zephyr:

Welcome everyone to Zephyr's

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Adjusted for Risk podcast

from the shores of Lake Tahoe.

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I'm Ryan Nauman, the market

strategist here at Zephyr.

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One of the biggest challenges financial

advisors face is growing organically,

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which includes marketing and prospecting.

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I could be wrong here, but not

many advisors get into wealth

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management because they enjoy

marketing and prospecting, it

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can be a challenge for some.

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I have on the perfect guest to

talk about the importance of

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marketing and prospecting in

order to achieve organic growth.

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But first, this episode is sponsored

by the award-winning Zephyr, which

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helps investment professionals

make more informed investment

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decisions on behalf of their clients.

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All right, enough from me.

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I've already talked enough.

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Let's go ahead and bring

on the star of the show.

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To give a very warm

welcome to Eden Ovidea.

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Eden is the co-founder

and CEO of Fenny AI.

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Eden, thank you so much

for coming on the show.

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It's an honor to have you on.

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Really excited about this conversation.

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It's gonna be really fun.

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Can you please tell us a little bit

more about yourself and Fenny AI?

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Eden Ovadia Co-Founder & CEO FINNY:

Yeah, absolutely.

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I have to say I'm super excited.

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I don't know if I shared this with

you, but as I was getting into

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the industry and started building

Finney, this was actually one of the

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podcasts that me and my co-founder

were listening to pretty religiously

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just to get a better lay of the land.

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So it's great to be on

the other side of things.

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Ryan: Thank you.

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And then not many people come on

and say that, so It's an honor.

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Thank you

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Eden Ovadia Co-Founder & CEO FINNY:

Yeah.

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So my quick background and the background

on Finney me and my co-founders all

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studied AI engineering and machine

learning in college, and then we all

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went through different walks of life.

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I ended up in consulting at Boston

Consulting Group on their private equity

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team, doing a lot of work in our wonderful

indus-industry of wealth management,

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more so on the M&A side of things.

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There's a long story there, but

essentially all the cards lined

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up such that I was faced over

and over again with the problem

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of organic growth for advisors.

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And I kept hearing how

frustrating this process was.

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There was clearly no great solution.

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And I felt that in 2023, technology was

just getting to the point where we can

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probably build something really meaningful

and different from anything that had

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ever been available to advisors before.

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And so me and my co-founders all left

our jobs at early:

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And the goal and the only thing we do is

help financial advisors grow organically.

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So basically help them find new

families they can serve better than

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anyone else and grow their assets.

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That's truly the only thing we do.

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It's the only thing I think about every

single day when I wake up in the morning.

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So it's a topic I obviously

love to talk about.

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Ryan: Yeah, and then that's fantastic.

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So I'm glad you brought that up

because it feels if a lot of companies

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out there, a lot of firms in this

space, they do a lot of things okay.

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They spread themselves very thin.

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It's good that you know

what you're really good at.

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You do it really good.

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It's all you think about, all you do.

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It's not like you're trying to be

one, a million things across the

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Eden Ovadia: Yep.

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Yeah, you know what they say, jack

of all trades, master of none.

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Ryan: I love it.

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I love it.

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You're exactly right.

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So your experience, you've got the

wealth management experience, and then

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you're bringing technology together.

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I'm sure that experience has really

helped you with you and your co-founders

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in starting Finney and getting a

really big, better understanding of

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how, what the challenges are, the

gaps, and how technology can fit that

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Eden Ovadia: Yeah absolutely

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Ryan: What…

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This is probably a question just I

wanna know, Eden, but what's it like

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to be the co-founder and CEO of a

company that's supported by Josh Brown?

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Eden Ovadia: Josh is awesome.

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There's actually a funny story.

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When Josh came when I met Josh,

I think at this point it was

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like two and a half years ago it

was really early days of Finney.

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I was just getting started, and despite me

having been in the wealth industry from a

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consulting and M&A perspective, I didn't

really understand the dynamics and all

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the people and the super players and power

players like Josh and Michael Kitces.

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And so Josh came inbound and

booked a demo from our website.

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And I remember I just-- it was

me, his assistant, and Josh, and

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I just started pitching him as

if he was, a regular advisor.

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And I was like this is how Finney

works," and, just started doing a demo.

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And I remember his assistant was

like "Sorry to interrupt here, but

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do you know who Josh Brown is?"

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And I was like, "Yeah, I've done some

research on Ritholtz," but very light.

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And so we took a step back, and

he's "Okay, so this is actually,

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a little bit more context."

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They were super gracious about it.

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But it-- And then we ended up having

a good laugh for a minute afterwards,

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and obviously in the end, he ended

up coming on as an advisor to Finney

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and an investor in our company.

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But it came from a really organic

place, and I think he appreciated the

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fact that I probably came into this a

little bit more naive than others have.

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It's been tremendous to work with him.

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I think when he had publicly announced

his involvement in our company, we

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had been booked straight demos for

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There was like a wait list

just to see the product.

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It-- which has been awesome

from that perspective.

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And he also is just super wise

and has just eagle eye view of

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all the innovation and everything

that's happening in our industry.

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So just been a great person

to bounce ideas off of.

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Ryan: I love that story.

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And and it probably helped that you

didn't go into it just all starstruck,

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and you're just regular person.

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That's fantastic.

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I love it.

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you had said that your background,

you did a lot with M&A.

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And, M&A is very popular today.

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It's like whenever you

see wealthmanagement.com

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articles, it's all

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M&A mergers firms acquiring other firms.

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It's just all over the place,

and I feel as if that's maybe

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people rely on that for growth.

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It's a popular growth vehicle

for wealth management firms.

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Do you think growing organically

has become a lost art with so

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many people just saying I'll get

growth by buying another firm"?

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Eden Ovadia: Hundred percent.

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I think a lot of firms over the last

five to ten years have become complacent

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and a little bit lazy, honestly.

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And growth in M&A is almost

almost like a hack, right?

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You can just buy your way

to these growth numbers.

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But ultimately you're not really

building up the muscle in how

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to grow the good old-fashioned

way through client acquisition.

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And now with how-- as these

multiples are going through the roof,

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growth through M&A is no longer…

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it never really was the economical

decision, but now it's just the most

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capital inefficient thing a firm can do.

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All the good deals are now going at these

crazy multiples, and the deals that aren't

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probably have a reason why they're not.

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And so it's no longer a great

strategy to just rely on M&A.

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You have to supplement it

with, a good growth strategy.

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When you bring in a new asset a

new partner firm, you have to help

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them actually reach those growth

numbers that you made the bet that

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they would be worth it, right?

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And so I think in the last, let's call

it twenty-four to thirty-six months,

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there's been an immense resurgence back

to focus on good old-fashioned client

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acquisition, share of wallet growth,

like the old school way of growing as

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the market has made it really difficult

and capital inefficient to pursue M&A.

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Ryan: I- it's funny that you said

the old school way of growing, right?

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You would think like organic growth,

like referrals, not many people talk

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about the importance of referrals today.

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It's all this other…

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And it's what happened from, and I'm gonna

age myself here, 20 years ago when I got

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in the industry, it was all about here's

a business card, referrals, let's set up

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your neighbor, your friends, your family.

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What happened to those days?

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Where'd

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Yeah, referrals are still king.

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I depending on which research

you're looking at, it's something

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like seventy-five to eighty-five

percent of growth in our industry

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still comes from referrals.

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The problem is referrals are the

passive growth strategy, right?

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There's not much you can do in the

form of being proactive in referrals.

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Most advisors just have to sit

back and wait for them to come in.

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And so firms with high growth

ambitions who want to two, three,

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four X their growth from last year,

referrals serve as the baseline.

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But anything you wanna do above that,

you have to start getting creative

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with different growth strategies

because it's really hard to scalably,

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predictably grow referrals as a channel

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Ryan: Yeah, very good point.

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And you're relying on other people.

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Like you said, it's not the most

proactive approach, and at some point your

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clients might run out of referrals too.

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Eden Ovadia: Right

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Ryan: on how wide their

net expands as well.

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Eden Ovadia: Can you imagine if

I went to raise, a f-- round of

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funding from investors and they said,

"Hey, what's your growth strategy?"

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And I said, "Oh, my clients are

gonna refer me new business."

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I'm like, they're like-- They'd be

like, "Yeah, of course they are, but

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what's your growth strategy beyond that?

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Like, how do you wanna

hit these growth targets?

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Are you just gonna sit back and wait for

your clients to refer business to you?"

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It's like that's any other business

it's a bit of a silly thing to say.

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They're implicit in growth strategies,

but what else are you doing?

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Ryan: Yeah, exactly.

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And like you said before too, I hate

to cast this term across financial but

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it could be a lazy approach, right?

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Versus being more proactive and really

getting out there and putting yourself

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out there, whether that's doing events

or whatever, marketing, whatever it is.

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So why do you think organic

growth and prospecting has

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become so difficult for advisors?

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I think, when you get into the wealth

management space, you have to realize,

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prospecting, connecting relationships,

it all goes together you would think.

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But obviously it's a challenge for some.

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Why do you think it is so difficult?

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Eden Ovadia: I think you said it

earlier, the best advisors didn't

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typically go into this industry

because they're pro marketers, right?

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They typically, the best

advisors I've spoken to have a

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passion for helping families.

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They've honed in on their skills.

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They're really good at doing a

very specific subset of whether

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it's financial planning, estate

planning, tax planning just being a

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holistic partner to their clients.

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But they're not in it because

they wanna build, the best

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social media marketing strategy.

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And so those skills typically

are a little bit different.

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And I also think in the age of AI

now, having a well-defined voice

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that cuts through all the noise and

slop we see has never been harder.

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Before, advisors could just do

the bare minimum and hope that

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someone is gonna find them online.

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But now it's-- the bar has just

kept ra-- getting raised in terms

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of how to stand out that it's really

never been harder to make a voi--

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a name for yourself in the industry

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Ryan: Yeah, you're exactly right.

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It, I have a lot of conversations

just talking about how

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competitive this space is, and

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Eden Ovadia: Yeah

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Ryan: expectations from investors and

prospects, they want personalization, they

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want a whole menu of investment options.

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Again, myself, when I started, it was

just mutual funds, ETFs, and we're good.

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Eden Ovadia: Yep

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Ryan: and clients, they

want more than that.

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That's not gonna do it, and it's

getting competitive, very competitive.

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So how is … You talked

about AI and just AI slop.

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Yes, it can help a lot of

advisors, but also, they might

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be using it in the wrong way.

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How is AI changing advisor prospecting?

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Eden Ovadia: It's made it harder to

combat the noise, but I think for

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advisors who have done the work, the

best advisors have already figured

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out why they can serve their end

client better than anyone else, right?

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I think, before we might have seen

a lot of advisors say, "Hey, any

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pre-retirees in the US I wanna work with."

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That just won't cut it anymore because

now the pre-retirees are saying why you

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and not the thousand other advisors that

I see online that also help pre-retirees?"

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And so it now becomes really

important to say, "Oh actually, I

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wanna help people who own dental

practices and are thinking about

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selling their practice and retiring."

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And, I've worked with a dozen others like

these, and I've become the premier expert.

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And so I think in the world of AI,

it becomes a force multiplier if

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you know how to use it properly.

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And so let's say you come to…

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I'll use Finney as an example.

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You come to Finney, and you

say, "I want to work with this

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niche or this set of niches."

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Finney can help create really personalized

time-sensitive content targeting

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that end client and also create,

hyper-segmented lists to reach out to.

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But garbage in, garbage out, right?

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Finney is not a silver bullet.

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If you tell Finney, "Hey, I wanna work

with all pre-retirees," and create

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content that's generic to all of them,

w-- this is not a magic wand, right?

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Like it's going to create AI slop.

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And I think there's a common

misconception there that any platform,

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any- anything is going to be this like

silver bullet that'll solve growth.

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It takes real work

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Ryan: Exactly.

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I love that saying,

"Garbage in, garbage out."

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We say it a lot in terms of data.

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If you throw

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Eden Ovadia: Yep

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Ryan: Zephyr and it's garbage, you're

gonna get garbage out, for sure.

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Do you think you mentioned

niche, your financial advisor is

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focusing more on a niche market.

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Where the industry is going, is be

really good at that one niche market?

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Or are you just that net as wide as you

can to get as many clients as you can?

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Do you think the best advisor should

focus on, like you say, dent- dentists

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or, I worked for a financial advisor, he

really focused on, he had sports agents

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as clients, so that was his market.

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Do you think that's the way

especially in terms of marketing?

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Eden Ovadia: Yeah.

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It's funny 'cause we actually opened

today talking about specialization.

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It was in the ter- in the context

of Finney, but I, I said earlier,

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jack of all trades, master of none.

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I think that applies to

this industry as well.

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The end consumer, their expectations,

and you said it earlier, have

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just been skyrocketing, right?

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They expect to be, have hyper-personalized

level of service white glove really

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specific, holistic, just they want

help in a bunch of different things.

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And advisors just who are generalists

aren't gonna be able to deliver that

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level of service and specificity that

the end client is increasingly expecting.

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And so I think a hundred

percent, niching is actually…

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And having multiple niches, right?

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It doesn't have to be one thing

that you do really well, but you

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can have a couple of areas of focus.

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But the more that you spread yourself

thin across these, the less specialized

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and the less sharp your messaging

is going to be, and clients can pick

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up on that really quickly, I think.

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It's the biggest trend that we've seen

over the last twenty years is the changing

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demands of consumer and their expectations

regarding, personalized experiences.

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Ryan: Yeah.

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Let's talk about personalization.

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Perfect segue, Eden.

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It's y- I talk a lot in terms of

personalized investment solutions.

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One-size-fit-all mutual

funds and need to…

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They're not gonna work anymore.

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You need a personalized investment

solutions to offer these clients

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because they want personalization,

they want to be able to customize,

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they want transparency, right?

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And a lot of times like I said, I

talk about them in terms of investment

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solutions, investment management.

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You also have said, though, it's also very

important when it comes to prospecting

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to have a personalized approach.

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Why is it also important for

prospecting in term- in addition

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to investment solutions?

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Eden Ovadia: Yeah, the, this whole

industry is based off of trust, right?

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That's what's driving client relationships

and the prospecting or just, growth

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strategies, that's the very first time,

the very first interaction you're gonna

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have with a potential future client.

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So sending a generic message, a generic

newsletter, some, s- generic market

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outlook or insights, the same way you

wouldn't pick a generic mutual fund for

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your client, you probably don't want

to put your f- the first interaction

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they have being something that isn't,

doesn't represent your best foot forward.

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And that's the idea, right?

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Like personalization at every

step, making for and building

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that trust-based relationship

from the very first interaction.

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There's no reason why your future

client should think of you as,

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should get some spray and pray email

that has nothing to do with you

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Ryan: Love that.

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Yeah, and staying with the personalized

approach, I, the first thing I think of

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is that's a lot of work, a personalized

approach, whether it's on the investment

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management side or prospecting or

ju- Like you said, a newsletter

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going out to everybody that's not

personalized, do they actually read it?

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how can you do it at scale?

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We've talked a lot about

financial advisors.

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They've got a lot on their plate today.

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It's not easy

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Eden Ovadia: Yep

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Ryan: advisor, so they have to, do

things at scale, make it efficient

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in order to do what's most important,

and that's relationship building.

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How can the enterprise firms that are

so big scale prospecting and marketing

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while maintaining a personalized approach?

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Eden Ovadia: I'm so happy you said that

because I was about to say, listen there's

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two worlds of being a financial advisor.

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There's being a financial advisor

and also running your entire business

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yourself or with limited help.

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And then there's being a financial

advisor at a large firm where you

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might actually have a marketing and

sales team to support your efforts.

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In the f-- in, in both cases, I would

say give the work to the experts.

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In the case of a smaller RIA, the, that

expert might be AI agents maybe platforms

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or tools that can help them scale.

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And in the world of larger firms that can

afford to have a centralized marketing or

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sales function, I would say lean on them.

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The best-- this is actually like

something we just announced a

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couple weeks ago with the launch

of our work with Mercer Advisors.

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But we have been thinking a lot

about if you are a large firm

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with hundreds of advisors, how can

you scale, the personalization?

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How can you make sure that every end

client is getting a very personalized

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bespoke interaction at scale?

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And the cool thing about AI now is

it's actually able to do that, and

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we can actually turn an entire agent

or an entire force of advisors into

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a sales force, each one amplifying

their own unique story and offering to

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their network and having a centralized

team do that on behalf of advisors.

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Ryan: Yeah.

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Yeah, I think it's so important.

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And like you said, providing that support.

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Now I feel as if some of these

large firms, they just bring them

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on and then let the financial

advisor still figure it out, right?

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Which isn't helping the financial

advisor, like you said, grow

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organically coming back to it.

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So you talked about this process,

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marketing group that can help.

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how can financial advisors automate

these processes so they can spend

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more time, which is most important,

building relationships and supporting

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their clients versus, again, going

back to investment management.

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Instead of sitting behind Bloomberg

and just searching for the best

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mutual fund or something, their time

is better off meeting with clients.

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Eden Ovadia: Yep

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Ryan: automate the marketing process?

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Eden Ovadia: Yeah.

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So I think the beautiful thing about

a, like a platform like Finney, but

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there are others too, is that you can

set and forget a lot of the work in

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the background as long as, like we said

earlier, if you give it the right context

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to start, you don't put garbage in, you

put good in you're gonna get good out.

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a platform like Finney, they

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can actually identify who their

niche is and then Finney can

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basically do the rest of the work.

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So f-- so right, I'll

use you as an example.

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We can find people who you would get--

Our m- machine learner models can

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actually find people who we think you

would get along with more than anyone

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else can then create personalized

content based on everything it knows

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about you and your specialization

and all of your knowledge, targeting

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those people, run the entire marketing

and sales process essentially until

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meetings are booked in your calendar.

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That's when a human intervention

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meeting really is almost like

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wasted time for the advisor.

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serving their existing clients

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Ryan: Yeah, you're exactly right

because that's where they build

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AUM, and help with referrals, right?

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You build a stronger relationship

there and I'm glad you brought…

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Sometimes y- people, they get upset,

they all of a sudden, on their

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phones if they search something or

they talk about something, all of a

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sudden they get all those ads, right?

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Amazon's doing, all these big

tech firms and consu- consumer

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firm companies, they're data, we

search for things, to offer more

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personalized goods and services.

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management space to adapt to technology.

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at Finney, I believe, is, being able to

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add that personalized touch so we're just

not throwing out slop, like you said.

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I think it's fantastic.

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were talking about it, trying

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to figure out what it was.

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It's a support tool maybe last

year, but now it's really evolved

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to being, helping advisor growth.

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you think advisors are using it for today?

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Eden Ovadia: In, in terms of growth?

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Ryan: Yes, in terms of growth

and really being more of a

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partner versus just doing content

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Eden Ovadia: Yeah.

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I think the first part

is one that you nailed.

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It's spending more time on their clients

and abstracting and automating away

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anything else that AI can do really well.

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advisors time back and helping

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them grow more efficiently.

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terms of behaviors that it can

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automate AI is really good at taking

a lot of unstructured data and

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structuring it and making sense of it.

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In the world of growth, that means

looking up tons and tons of people and

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identifying and scoring them based off who

the advisor can serve better than anyone

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else, matching them to clients that they

might look like already and saying, "Hey,

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Ryan, you already work with John Smith.

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Jane Smith over here has

a very similar profile.

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We think you would work really

well with Jane Smith as well."

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personalized content, researching

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Jane Smith, figuring out, where she

works, what she looks like, predicting

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what her pain points might be, and

then addressing those in the very

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first outreach in a personalized way.

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all that prospecting that is, at the

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end of the day, it is a volume game,

and so would just not be worth time to

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spend human hours on until you really

get that meeting, and that's when you

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can-- the human can take charge again.

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Ryan: That's awesome, Evan.

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All right, let's bring

out your crystal ball.

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Bring your technology background,

what you're doing at Finney, your

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experience in wealth management.

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What's the future of

advisor growth technology?

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Eden Ovadia: In my ideal world,

advisors would be spending zero

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percent of their time on doing anything

before the first client meeting.

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the first prospect meeting.

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All of that would be completely

abstracted away and automated from the

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advisor so they can really focus on

building the relationship, building that

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trust in a human-to-human connection.

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Everything else the AI agents would

be doing, and I think we're getting

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closer and closer to that world

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Ryan: Yeah.

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You know what?

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I think that was all of our

listeners out there, that was

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probably music to their ears.

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They probably are like, "Yes,

w- let's bring it tomorrow.

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Bring it tomorrow."

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Eden Ovadia: Yeah,

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Ryan: For sure

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Eden Ovadia: No one likes to be,

prospecting and getting told no all day.

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No one likes to write a

thousand manual emails just,

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to have them go unresponded to.

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be pretty happy with this,

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the future state of the world

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Ryan: I read something

recently, it's true.

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Advisor, and I'm not even saying

advisors in general, but other

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people in the business world, they

spend two hours of their day in the

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morning planning for their day, right?

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then they kinda do it.

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what you're gonna do for the

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day, that's a lot of time.

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technology that can shorten that two

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hours or basically give that two hours

back to a financial advisor is huge.

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Eden Ovadia: Yep.

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Ryan: So

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Eden Ovadia: I love that.

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That's a great analogy actually

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Ryan: Awesome, Evan.

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Fantastic conversation.

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Really glad to have you on.

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It was an honor to have you on.

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I've followed a lot of your guys'

work, doing some great things at Fenny.

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Really exciting.

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So thank you for coming out.

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Where can our audience get more

information about Fenny AI?

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Eden Ovadia: Super simple.

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They can just go to finny.com.

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That's F-I-N-N-Y dot com.

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They can find me on LinkedIn.

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I say like my passion project these days

is just being super vocal on LinkedIn

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about what we're building and educating,

and there's so much interesting things

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happening in our industry right now.

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Just I'm pretty active there, so that

would be another great forum to connect.

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Reach out.

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I respond to every single

one of my LinkedIn messages.

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And, and let's connect

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Ryan: Awesome.

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thank you so much.

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Fantastic conversation.

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And thank you everyone for

listening to this episode of

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Zephyr's Adjusted for Risk podcast.

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You can watch all of our other

episodes on the Zephyr YouTube

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channel and Spotify, along with any

other or all your other locations or

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platforms you watch your podcasts.

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Also, be sure to like and

subscribe to those channels and

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give us a follow on LinkedIn.

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you very much and have a

great rest of your week

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Eden Ovadia: Thanks, Brian

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Adjusted for Risk
Your weekly guide to timely market analysis, investment strategies, wealth management tips, and engaging discussions to empower investment professionals
Hosted by Market Strategist Ryan Nauman, Adjusted for Risk brings together financial markets, investments, economics, wealth management, and life to help investment professionals make sense of what's happening—and prepare for what's next.

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Ryan Nauman

As Zephyr’s Market Strategist, Nauman provides thought provoking analysis and research on market trends across asset classes, sectors, and regions to help empower better asset allocation strategy decisions. His ability to navigate complex market dynamics and identify emerging trends has made him a trusted voice among investors and industry professionals alike. He is an accomplished investment strategist who has spent the last 22 years in the investment management industry ranging from working with plan sponsors, managing the investments of retail investors, and providing actionable thought leadership to investment professionals.
Ryan Nauman is the host of the popular Adjusted for Risk and Inside SMAs podcasts. He is a well-respected investment industry strategist regularly featured on Charles Schwab Network, Yahoo! Finance, Bloomberg TV, Bloomberg Radio and Chuck Jaffe’s Money Life podcast. His opinions and market expertise have been published in Reuters, CNBC, Bloomberg, MarketWatch.com, Yahoo! Finance, and the Wall Street Journal.
Prior to joining Zephyr, Nauman served as lead Investment Manager for a large financial planning practice. He also spent several years as an investment analyst conducting manager due diligence and creating mutual fund lineups for over 100 Plan Sponsors while overseeing $1 billion in defined contribution plan assets.