FPA DFW Chapter Meeting - November 7

FPA DFW Chapter Meeting
Tuesday, November 7th

Agenda

• 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM - Check in and networking for FPA DFW Chapter Meeting
• 11:00 AM  - 11:10 AM - Welcome, Announcements, Opening Remarks
• 11:10 AM - 11:20 AM - FPA Platinum Sponsor Spotlight 
• 11:20 AM - 12:10 PM - Part I - Advisory Trends
• 12:10 PM - 12:50 PM - Lunch & Networking
• 12:50 PM - 1:40 PM - Part II - Economic & Market Outlook 

CE Credits

Part II qualifies for 1 CFP, 1 CPA, 1 CIMA CE credit. You will be asked to sign in when you arrive in order to be eligible for credit. FPA DFW will report all credits to the CFP® Board following the event. Your credit can then be confirmed in the CFP Portal within 7 business days following the event.

Chapter Meeting Topics & Speakers

Part I - Advisory Trends: Organic Growth, Next Generation Talent, and Runaway Founders

Jarrod Upton, MBA, MS, CFP®
Senior Partner & Senior Consultant I Herbers & Company

Practice Management (does not qualify for CE)

This session will be a discussion around trends and challenges that firms are having with organic growth strategies, the challenges of finding and retaining NexGen talent, and founders who disengage in the business.

Jarrod Upton is Senior Partner and Senior Consultant at Herbers & Co. He brings over 18 years of experience in management strategy, client experience, operations, training, and consulting of advisory firms from start-ups to multi-location/multi-billion advisory firms to provide solutions that impact positive growth. He previously served as VP, Centralized Services and Financial Guidance of United Capital, a multi-billion-dollar, fee-based national RIA, where he was responsible for centralized operations strategy, functionality and for developing and advancing guidance and financial planning initiatives. In addition, he oversaw and led strategic projects relating to client experience, organizational design, technology strategy, compliance, training, education, and implementation of centralized operations and financial planning. Prior to that, Jarrod served as SVP of a regional RIA firm in North Texas where he was responsible for helping clients to achieve their financial goals and played an integral part in guiding the strategic direction of the organization, while also implementing and leading financial planning initiatives. Earlier in his career, Jarrod supported client engagement through various roles with both Fidelity Investments and TD Ameritrade. Jarrod is a published author in his prior roles and contributor and blogger for ThinkAdvisor.com. He has also completed the intensive Executive Leadership Program through Charles Schwab. Jarrod has also served in various leadership /member roles in the DFW Financial Planning Association, Texas Tech Alumni Association, Estate Planning Council of North Texas, Texas Tech University Rawls Advisory Council, and the Texas Tech University Personal Financial Planning Alumni Advisory Board. Jarrod is a 2002 and 2010 graduate of Texas Tech University. He has a BBA in Marketing, MBA, and MS in Personal Financial Planning. He is a Certified Financial Planner™(CFP®).

Part II - Economic and Market Outlook

Lauren Goodwin, CFA
Director of Portfolio Strategy I New York Life Investments

1 CFP, 1 CPA, 1 CIMA CE

This session will provide an economic and market outlook designed to educate participants on the impacts of various economic and market conditions on investor outcomes. The session will provide tools for assessing where we are in the economic cycle, based on repeated historical conditions. Participants will apply today’s unique factors to estimate when, and with what impact, a recession may occur. The session will also review market conditions, including monetary policy and developments in market interest rates, which may impact investor choices independently from the economic outlook. It will also enable participants to identify and describe the differences between monetary, bank lending, and market financial conditions, and how the impact market outcomes. The session will educate participants on how to assess and estimate the impacts of un-anticipatable risks, such as geopolitical risk or megatrends, into tangible implications or actions for investors today.

Lauren, an Economist and Director of Portfolio Strategy at New York Life Investments, was named a 2020 Business Insider Rising Star of Wall Street.* Her Multi-Asset Solutions team manages a combined $8.4B in assets (as of 9/30/22), including MainStay’s Income Builder Fund, Asset Allocation ETFs, and bespoke investment solutions. Lauren’s work focuses on mapping global macro and capital markets trends to asset management strategy. She is responsible for economic and market research, asset allocation, and thought leadership, providing regular insights through multi-media coverage and as host of the firm’s economic and market podcast, Market Matters. Lauren regularly represents firm at conferences and as spokesperson in television and print media outlets such as: Bloomberg, CNBC, the New York Times, Nikkei and Barron’s. Lauren authored the CFA Institute’s curriculum on Geopolitical Risk (“Introduction to Geopolitical Risk”). Prior to joining the firm, Lauren held economist positions at JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Frontier Strategy Group, and the OECD. She is a CFA Charterholder, graduated summa cum laude from the University of Southern California and holds a master’s degree in international economics from Johns Hopkins.