Welcome everybody! Welcome to the 403rd episode of the Monetary Advisor Success Podcast!
My visitor on right this moment’s podcast is Eric Stein. Eric is a accomplice at East Bay Funding Options, a agency that gives fractional Chief Funding Officer providers primarily based in Charleston, South Carolina, that helps over $6 billion in property beneath advisement throughout 26 advisory companies they serve.
What’s distinctive about Eric, although, is how he has chosen to not make the most of the funding experience he is constructed all through his profession to collect particular person purchasers and handle their portfolios as a ‘conventional’ monetary advisor with funding experience, however as a substitute to essentially keep targeted on being an “funding nerd” by touchdown his present position as a accomplice with East Bay, the place he will get to function a fractional Chief Funding Officer for a number of advisory companies and all of their purchasers as a substitute.
On this episode, we discuss in-depth about the way it works when advisory companies rent Eric’s fractional Chief Funding Officer service providing, together with conducting funding analysis, designing mannequin portfolios, and producing written market commentaries for advisors to make use of with their purchasers, how Eric’s agency differs from the Outsourced Chief Funding Officer (or OCIO) providers which have emerged for establishments, and the way a fractional CIO additionally differs from a TAMP by nonetheless leaving the precise portfolio implementation tasks as much as the advisor (which permits Eric’s agency to cost a flat payment as a fractional CIO reasonably than a foundation level cost primarily based on consumer property that permits it to serve mid-sized unbiased advisory companies in an economical method), and Eric’s instructed concerns for advisors contemplating working with a fractional CIO, together with most significantly discovering a match with respect to the agency’s funding philosophy.
We additionally speak about Eric’s personal distinctive profession journey, which began in industrial banking with stops alongside the way in which that included a wide range of roles at Goldman Sachs Asset Administration and dealing as an inside full-time Chief Funding Officer for a big nationwide RIA earlier than beginning his present fractional CIO position, how Eric has leveraged recruiters through the years to each uncover new alternatives and to shortly discover a new place after being unexpectedly let go when large-firm funding departments undergo downsizing (which is extra of a hazard for these in funding roles than conventional monetary advisor roles), and the way Eric went via a metaphorical ‘courting’ course of in approaching his present enterprise accomplice and why their open discussions of enterprise administration contingencies earlier than partnering up ensured their visions have been aligned and has allowed the enterprise to now develop and thrive for years.
And make certain to hearken to the top, the place Eric shares his views on working in large nationwide companies versus smaller native companies, together with balancing the chance to discover a number of positions throughout the identical firm with emotions of being ‘simply’ a cog in a a lot bigger system of gears, how Eric’s experiences as a supervisor and the journey he went via in studying how one can begin letting go and never micromanage workforce members, and the way it was a tennis coach who finally taught Eric the worth of remembering to pause on occasion to rejoice successes whereas additionally studying and shifting on shortly from failures, that helped Eric navigate the ups and downs of his personal profession in monetary providers.
So, whether or not you are concerned with studying about navigating a profession within the monetary providers business as an “funding nerd”, what it means to rent a fractional Chief Funding Officer, or how one can efficiently create a enterprise partnership that meets each companions’ visions, then we hope you take pleasure in this episode of the Monetary Advisor Success podcast, with Eric Stein.
