Tag: FinancialPlanning

Episode 75. Four Keys To Successful Investing, Transparency

Episode 75. Four Keys To Successful Investing, Transparency

Four keys to start building a foundation towards long term success for investing are – philosophy, strategy, flexibility, and transparency.

In this episode, Mark Pearson finishes off his four part miniseries, focusing on the last key to successful investing, transparency. Mark discusses the foundation of the Nepsis investment strategy and why time is the most valuable asset when creating an investment plan. 

Mark discusses: 

  • Why you should know the largest holding in your portfolio 
  • The level of trust you should put into your financial advisors 
  • How transparency can give you peace of mind when investing your money
  • Why the Nepsis’ strategy has proven to work over time 
  • And more

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Episode 74. Four Keys To Successful Investing, Flexibility

Episode 74. Four Keys To Successful Investing, Flexibility

Four keys to start building a foundation towards long term success for investing are – philosophy, strategy, flexibility, and transparency.

In this episode, Mark Pearson continues with part three of the successful investing miniseries, focusing on flexibility. Mark discusses Roth conversions and how investments can increasingly benefit you as a business owner. 

Mark discusses: 

  • Active versus passive investing
  • How increased flexibility among your investments can benefit you
  • How to avoid making emotional business decisions 
  • How Nepsis’ investment strategy has proven to work over time
  • And more

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Episode 73: Know What You Own and Why You Own It: Investing Clarity With Chuck Etzweiler, Part 5

Episode 73: Know What You Own and Why You Own It: Investing Clarity With Chuck Etzweiler, Part 5

The keys to start building a foundation towards long term success for investing are – philosophy, strategy, flexibility, and transparency.

In this episode, Mark Pearson finishes up his five-part series of the Know What You Own and Why You Own It focusing on knowledge, alongside Chuck, Nepisis’ head of research. Mark lays out fundamentals of the Nepsis investment strategy, and explains how transparency among clients can make a big impact on their investments. He also details why the process of buying and selling is so important and how you can use that to your advantage. 

Mark discusses: 

  • How the Nepsis investment strategy has become so successful
  • What you need to know about buying and selling stocks 
  • Advantages of having a single account versus pooled assets  
  • The importance of the buying and selling process
  • And more

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Episode 72. Knowing What You Own and Why You Own It: Putting The Nepsis Portfolio To The Test With Chuck Etzweiler

Episode 72. Knowing What You Own and Why You Own It: Putting The Nepsis Portfolio To The Test With Chuck Etzweiler

How do you know whether your portfolio is doing well? Is it helping to achieve your long-term investing goals?

Mark Pearson is back with Chuck Etzweiler for part four of the Knowing What You Own and Why You Own It miniseries. In this episode, Mark and Chuck put the Nepsis portfolio to the test by examining diversification and why asset allocation could avoid over diversification. Plus, why tech, energy, and health care businesses do well in inflationary periods.

Mark and Chuck discuss: 

  • Why asset allocation is a component of diversification
  • What constraint means
  • How to know if your portfolio is doing well
  • Why tech, energy, and health care businesses do well in inflationary periods
  • And more

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Episode 71. Four Keys To Successful Investing, Strategy

Episode 71. Four Keys To Successful Investing, Strategy

Four keys to start building a foundation towards long term success for investing are – philosophy, strategy, flexibility, and transparency.

In this episode, Mark Pearson continues with part two of the successful investing mini-series, focusing on strategy. Mark lays out fundamentals of the Nepsis investment strategy, and explains their top down perspective. He also details their buy and sell strategy, plus the four sell disciplines. 

Mark discusses: 

  • The fundamentals of the Nepsis investment strategy
  • The buy and sell strategy 
  • The four sell disciplines 
  • Why your financial services professional should know the largest holding in your portfolio
  • And more

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Episode 69. Inflation, What You Need To Know

Episode 69. Inflation, What You Need To Know

Should you be thinking about inflation? How does inflation affect your buying decisions and your long-term financial goals?

In this episode, Mark Pearson tackles inflation and its growing presence on the market. Mark explains why you should be thinking about inflation and how it affects investors’ emotional decisions. Finding clarity with inflation is so powerful, it can help you stay on track towards your long-term financial goals.

Mark discusses: 

  • Should inflation play a part in long term investing and asset allocation
  • How buying power is more important than the actual rate of return
  • What sectors benefit from inflation, and why it may be worth having asset allocation in those areas
  • Why no one is talking about inflation and how it may affect a client’s long-term goals
  • And more

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Episode 68. Innovation Overrides Fear In the Financial Services Business

Episode 68. Innovation Overrides Fear In the Financial Services Business

Clarity in the financial service business is innovative. Why? Because people don’t think about clarity or the power of clarity.

In this episode, Mark Pearson looks at innovation in the financial services business. Mark explains how the financial services business can have clarity, and why clarity will prove to be innovative. He also voices his displeasure for modern portfolio theory and how it has affected the financial services business.

Mark discusses: 

  • Why clarity in the financial services business is innovative
  • The power of clarity
  • How modern portfolio theory has affected the financial services business
  • How Mark evaluates a businesses innovation level
  • And more

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Episode 67. Knowing What You Own and Why You Own It: Confidence, Conviction, and Consistency With Chuck Etzweiler

Episode 67. Knowing What You Own and Why You Own It: Confidence, Conviction, and Consistency With Chuck Etzweiler

Investing with clarity is all about mastering the 3 Cs: Confidence, Conviction, and Consistency.

In part three of this five-part miniseries, Mark Pearson is back with Chuck Etzweiler, senior vice president of Nepsis®, to challenge different investment dogmas that distract most investors from their long-term financial goals. They also share Nepsis’s unconventional, but powerful, investment approach to help you invest with clarity®.

Mark Pearson and Chuck Etzweiler discuss:

  • How to avoid “over-diversification” of an investment portfolio
  • Why you should not overly fixate on benchmarks to measure performance
  • The incredible flexibility that separately managed accounts (SMAs) can provide
  • Tips to overcome the four key barriers to investing with conviction and clarity
  • And more

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About Our Guest: 

Chuck Etzweiler is Nepsis’ senior vice president of research. With over three decades of investment industry experience, Chuck oversees the firm’s ongoing research activities, much of which helps advisors and clients truly understand Nepsis’ philosophy and strategy.

Prior to joining Nepsis®, Chuck worked as Chief Market Strategist for True North Global Research and as an Investment Analyst with both Wells Fargo and the Bank of Hawaii. Additionally, Chuck has earned the CIMA® designation and is a Chartered Market Technician. Chuck is a graduate of Syracuse University and also has earned his MBA in Finance from the Crummer School of Management in Winter Park, FL.

Episode 66. Knowing What You Own and Why You Own It: Eradicating the Fear From Process With Chuck Etzweiler

Episode 66. Knowing What You Own and Why You Own It: Eradicating the Fear From Process With Chuck Etzweiler

Fear is the antithesis of clarity.  An emotion that one should not have in the investment process. 

In part two of this five-part miniseries, Mark Pearson speaks with Chuck Etzweiler, senior vice president of Nepsis, Inc, to help investors and business owners understand the emotion of fear and how to overcome it with optimal clarity. 

Mark Pearson and Chuck Etzweiler discuss: 

  • The two components of fear
  • How to eradicate or overcome fear
  • The Hopes and Fears: the Conflicting Effects of Risk Ambiguity Study 
  • The three components of a successful business owner when investing
  • And more

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About Our Guest: 

Chuck Etzweiler is Nepsis’ senior vice president of research. With over three decades of investment industry expertise, Chuck oversees the firm’s ongoing research activities, much of which helps advisors and clients truly understand Nepsis’ philosophy and strategy.

Prior to joining Nepsis, Chuck worked as Chief Market Strategist for True North Global Research and as an Investment Analyst with both Wells Fargo and the Bank of Hawaii. Additionally, Chuck has earned the CIMA® designation and is a Chartered Market Technician. Chuck is a graduate of Syracuse University and also has earned his MBA in Finance from the Crummer School of Management in Winter Park, FL.

Episode 65. Knowing What You Own and Why You Own It: It’s All About Eradicating Emotion With Chuck Etzweiler

Episode 65. Knowing What You Own and Why You Own It: It’s All About Eradicating Emotion With Chuck Etzweiler

Knowing what you own and why you own it is an ideal that helps investors to avoid acting emotionally and irrationally. 

You don’t have to get deep into the weeds to grasp what you own and why you own it, but there is a framework to use and understand. There are also psychological components to investing with clarity that revolve around understanding what you own and why you own it.

In this five-part miniseries, Mark Pearson is joined by returning guest Chuck Etzweiler, senior vice president of Nepsis, Inc, to help investors understand that while knowing what you own and why you own it is important, understanding the behavioural characteristics of an investor is equally important. And that at the end of the day, it is always process before progress. 

Mark Pearson and Chuck Etzweiler discuss: : 

  • The significance of the DALBAR Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior (QAIB) research study, and how investors may incorporate some of these variables into their daily life and portfolio.
  • The Four Step Claritology Process
  • The importance of investing like a business owner and not a gambler
  • The four key principles to Investing Like a Pro
  • And more

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About Our Guest: 

Chuck Etzweiler is Nepsis’ senior vice president of research. With over three decades of investment industry expertise, Chuck oversees the firm’s ongoing research activities, much of which helps advisors and clients truly understand Nepsis’ philosophy and strategy.

Prior to joining Nepsis, Chuck worked as Chief Market Strategist for True North Global Research and as an Investment Analyst with both Wells Fargo and the Bank of Hawaii. Additionally, Chuck has earned the CIMA® designation and is a Chartered Market Technician. Chuck is a graduate of Syracuse University and also has earned his MBA in Finance from the Crummer School of Management in Winter Park, FL.