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Every profession has its superstars. And outside a given profession, you wouldn’t know those people if you saw them in the grocery store.
Meir Statman is an excellent example of just such a superstar. If you met him in person and had a chat , you’d find him to be a kind, unassuming man with an interesting Europeanesk accent. But if you see him at a financial planning or academic conference, it’s probably because he’s a keynote speaker.
Many people assume financial planning is all about crunching numbers and knowing boring details about the Internal Revenue Code. While those skills are part of the financial planning profession, the best planners also pay attention to behavioral finance. Why do people do the things they do and don’t do with money? And how can the planner motivate them to do better things and stop doing financially destructive things?
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LEAWOOD, Kan., June 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Impact Communications, Inc. (www.ImpactCommunications.org), a full-service marketing and PR firm that works exclusively with independent financial advisors and allied institutions such as custodians, independent broker/dealers, consulting companies and fintech firms, today announced that it has been named a finalist for the Digital Campaign of the Year in the Marketing/PR Firm category of the WealthManagement.com Industry Awards for the Conversations That Matter project, which was produced in partnership with the Advisory Solutions arm of Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (Allianz Life) (https://www.allianzlife.com/for-financial-professionals/the-conversations-that-matter-project). The Conversations That Matter project was also honored in a second category, with Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America named as a finalist in the Insurance/Service category.
Jeff Ptak: Hi, and welcome to
The Long View. I m Jeff Ptak, chief ratings officer at Morningstar Research Services.
Christine Benz: And I m Christine Benz, director of personal finance for Morningstar.
Ptak: Our guest this week is Eduardo Repetto. Eduardo is chief investment officer of Avantis Investors, where he is responsible for overseeing the research, design, and implementation of the firm s investment strategies. Prior to forming of Avantis in 2019, Eduardo was co-CEO, co-CIO, and a director at Dimensional Fund Advisors. Eduardo earned a Ph.D. in aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology, and an MSc degree in engineering from Brown University.