January, 2022

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The Selloff

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

The stock and crypto markets have started off the year in selloff mode, with the Nasdaq down almost 5% this week and the big crypto assets down almost 10% this week. But this selloff has been going on for a lot longer than one week. It has been going on since early November when the Nasdaq peaked at $16k and BTC hit $67k. Since then it’s been downhill and the biggest carnage has been in the highflying “cloud” stocks.

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Crypto cannot easily be painted green

Financial Times: Moral Money

A tricky question for mainstream investors in 2022: can you dabble in digital gold without getting your hands dirty?

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12 Top-Performing Website Pages for Financial Advisors (Video)

Indigo Marketing Agency

Join me in this quick video where I discuss 8 of the 12 top pages: Does your company have top-performing website pages? What makes a good financial advisor website? We’ve worked with thousands of advisors across the country. And after analyzing data for our 30 top-performing websites, we discovered each advisor had 12 web pages in common. Today, we’ll go over each of those web pages, why they’re so important for conversion rates, and show you A+ examples of each. 1.

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9 Ways Financial Advisors can Use LinkedIn to Grow Clients

BlueMind

Category: Business Growth. Once you have stepped into the field as a financial advisor, the biggest challenge you will come to face as a new player is building your client list from scratch. But you can make that challenge less of a concern if you know the right sources from where you can drive business, such as LinkedIn. Although often assumed to only be a platform for job search or posting, LinkedIn can prove to be a significant asset in helping you find new clientele.

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Inflation – Should We Be Worried?

Mr. Money Mustache

I’ve been writing about money for almost eleven years now, and in that time the world has become an immensely richer place. Here in the US, our economy has grown by about 25% even after inflation, world economic output has grown even faster, and the number of people living in extreme poverty has been cut roughly in half. US Real Economic Growth over the Mustachian Era.

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Market Review 2021: A Recovery Amid Challenges

ClearMoney

The following is provided by Dimensional Fund Advisors. It was a year of uncertainty and anticipation, of hopes for a return to a degree of normalcy following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. And it was a year that showed, again, the difficulty of making investment decisions based on predictions of where markets will go—as well as the enduring benefits of diversification and flexibility.

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Responsible Business Education Awards 2022

Financial Times: Moral Money

As sustainability and social impact move up the corporate agenda, business schools are rethinking what they teach.

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How to Communicate With Your Clients About Market Volatility (Free Template)

Indigo Marketing Agency

It’s been a wild ride on Wall Street this week! Monday’s market dip almost put the S&P 500 down over 10%. Investors are worried about their portfolios and their purchasing power. But as a financial advisor, how should you communicate with your clients about market volatility? And can you use the events to find opportunities to get new clients?

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MetroNet and Vexus Announce Merger to Accelerate Industry-Leading FTTH Expansion

Oakhill

EVANSVILLE, Ind.–( BUSINESS WIRE )–MetroNet, the nation’s largest independently owned, 100 percent fiber optic network provider, today announced a merger with Lubbock, Texas-based Vexus Fiber. Vexus builds and operates fiber optic networks that connect directly to homes and businesses in Texas, New Mexico, and Louisiana. The combined companies will continue to operate under their current brands with their current leadership teams.

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Existing Members

Africa Private Equity News

If you require assistance to update your detail, forgot your app membership account password or would like to unsubscribe, Yusuf Abrahams – our user experience director, and his team would love to hear from you – yusuf@africaprivateequitynews.

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Continued Recovery Leads to Strong December

Bell Investment Advisors

To close 2021, investors cheered on the new year. Measured by the MSCI ACWI, global equity markets gained about 19% for the year. During the final week of trading, large-cap U.S. stocks shrugged off concerns about the Omicron variant, and many of those stocks went on to set new all-time highs. Interestingly, this rise wasn’t echoed equally by all stocks, some of which peaked earlier in the year.

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New Leadership At Tech:NYC

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Six years ago this month Julie Samuels got together with a group of technology leaders in NYC and we decided to form an industry group for the growing tech sector in NYC. I agreed to co-chair the organization and have been in the chair role since then. We called it Tech:NYC and I first wrote about it here at AVC in March of 2016. Last year, after more than five years at the helm, Julie decided it was time to pass the baton to a new leader and she and I and a group of board members spent the fall

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Chief executives have a climate crisis blind spot

Financial Times: Moral Money

While many business leaders discuss environmental concerns, a PwC survey suggests few know where or how to start

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36 Top Influencers for Financial Advisors in 2022

Indigo Marketing Agency

It’s no secret that the financial landscape is changing rapidly. To stay ahead of the curve, financial advisors must identify and align themselves with the top influencers in the field. Here are 36 financial advisor influencers who will likely have a big impact on the industry in 2022. 1. Bill Cates If you need help figuring out how to identify the best niche for your firm, Bill Cates is your guy.

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Will Inflation Hurt Stock Returns? Not Necessarily.

ClearMoney

The following is provided by Dimensional Fund Advisors.

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Allan Wood

Africa Private Equity News

Collaboration and communication are key to unlocking the many opportunities arising across the continent. Africa Private Equity News provides the ideal platform for leading professionals to gain insights into the latest news, people, deals, and events shaping Africa’s investment landscape.

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Reader Case Study: Is it Okay to Subsidize my Spendypants Adult Children?

Mr. Money Mustache

It has been a good while since we’ve done a reader case study here on MMM, but that hasn’t stopped them from arriving in my inbox. And since 2022 is becoming a year of interesting financial changes, it’s time to spark things up again, go back to our roots, and start covering some of the many subjects that are cropping up in this latest incarnation of our economic world.

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Exciting Protocol Lead Opportunity

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Last month our portfolio company Kickstarter announced the creation of a protocol organization that will develop a web3 protocol for the crowdfunding of creative projects. They are now assembling a protocol team and are talking to candidates to lead that effort. The protocol lead role is an exciting one that combines product leadership, smart contract development, team management, and a lot more.

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Influential asset owners group lifts its climate change game

Financial Times: Moral Money

Environmental experts say the pledge does not go far enough by not banning new fossil fuel financing

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How to Create Your 2022 Marketing Plan & Grow Your AUM by 25% This Year (Webinar)

Indigo Marketing Agency

Drumroll, please…. I’m excited to introduce you to our biggest , most requested webinar of the year: How to Create Your 2022 Marketing Plan (& Grow Your AUM by 25%) ! Register Here After working with thousands of independent financial advisors , we’ve really cracked the code on what works to help advisors get new clients. And that’s exactly what I go over in this time-sensitive, information-packed webinar.

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2021 4th Quarter Market Review

ClearMoney

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How to Choose if Offered Restricted Stock Units or Non Qualified Stock Options

Zajac Group

Some employers may allow you to choose how you receive your equity compensation. They may allow you to receive it all in non-qualified stock options (NQSOs) or all in restricted stock units (RSUs) or they may allow you to receive some combination of the two. If your employer offers you a choice between RSUs and NQSOs , you may wonder which option is the best.

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Stock Market Correction: Finally!

Dear Mr. Market

Dear Mr. Market: Finally. It’s here… a bonafide stock market correction. What’s also almost here is Groundhog Day…but more on that in a minute. For those of us with short memories we’ll have to do the necessary preamble and small talk refresher on what this is. For those of you who remember what you did (or were supposed to do/not do) during the last correction, here we go again.

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Do Web3 Companies Need Web3 VCs?

This is going to be BIG.

Decentralization, when it means lowering the economic costs and other types of friction of participating in and regulating a marketplace, is a good idea. When it means shifting power away from the center and pushing it out to the users of applications that’s a very good way not wind up with more Facebooks, Googles and Apples controlling everything. All of this makes the promise of Web3 super exciting.

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Alumni change maker award: passion meets purpose

Financial Times: Moral Money

Meet the graduates whose entrepreneurial flair is creating tomorrow’s sustainable companies

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On Covid

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Two years ago this weekend, the Gotham Gal and I were in Park City at the annual Sundance Film Festival with another couple we have been great friends with for thirty years. On Monday morning we came down to breakfast and our friends announced they were flying back to NYC a few days early. Our friend Phil has been trading the financial markets for as long as we’ve known him and he knew, about a month before most of us, that something big was going to happen and he wanted to get prepared fo

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Hedge fund short-sellers take aim at green energy stocks

Financial Times: Moral Money

Huge investor inflows have sent shares in sustainable groups surging in recent years

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Majority of planned ETFs in Europe to have ESG tilt, PwC says

Financial Times: Moral Money

Survey of 60 global providers reveals companies are responding to regulatory pressure as well as investor demand

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Shades of green in business education rankings

Financial Times: Moral Money

As schools scramble to embrace sustainability, rankings providers are trying to evaluate their efforts

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Asset owners push the pace to reach net zero

Financial Times: Moral Money

Plus, Asian and Middle Eastern economies face steep energy transition costs and cumulative inflows of ESG ETFs soar

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ESG ETF growth accelerates in Asia

Financial Times: Moral Money

Research shows trend is particularly pronounced in Australia, China and Taiwan

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Pressure builds on the watch industry over green claims

Financial Times: Moral Money

Brands are urged to come clean on their environmental credentials

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Ask the awkward questions about green investing

Financial Times: Moral Money

How can we invest to make the world a better place?

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BlackRock’s Fink rejects accusations of being ‘woke’

Financial Times: Moral Money

Head of world’s biggest asset manager defends ‘stakeholder capitalism’ in annual letter to chief executives