Month: September 2023
Wealth Management EDGE Podcast: Marguerita Cheng’s Journey: Thriving as a Financial Advisor

Wealth Management EDGE Podcast: Marguerita Cheng’s Journey: Thriving as a Financial Advisor

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Reaching career heights and client goals on the road to success.

In this episode of WealthManagement Edge, special guest host Nabia Jenkins-Johnston talks one-on-one with Marguerita Cheng, CEO of Blue Ocean Global Wealth, about her path to success as a financial planner. Marguerita shares her insights on establishing trust, the power of authenticity, and her inclusive approach to working with clients from diverse backgrounds and multiple generations.

Specifically, Nabia and Marguerita discuss:

  • Building credibility before entering the financial planning profession.
  • The importance of authenticity and Inclusivity in creating judgment-free spaces for clients to openly discuss their financial situations.
  • Early Planning to secure financial futures for clients of all ages. 
  • Working with multi-generational families toward a life plan.

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About Our Guest:

Marguerita “Rita” M. Cheng is the Chief Executive Officer at Blue Ocean Global Wealth. Prior to founding Blue Ocean Global Wealth, she was a Financial Advisor at Ameriprise Financial and an Analyst and Editor at Towa Securities in Tokyo, Japan. She is a Certified Financial Planner® (CFP), a Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor® (CRPC), a Retirement Income Certified Professional® (RICP) and a Chartered SRI Counselor (CSRIC®). An in-demand financial writer and speaker, Rita has contributed her expertise to numerous media outlets including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Reuters, Kiplinger, Investopedia, Entrepreneur, Huffington Post, U.S. News and World Report, Time, Yahoo! Finance, NerdWallet, Financial Advisor, Be Inkandescent, and more. In 2021, she was named the #7 Most Influential Financial Advisor in the Investopedia Top 100, a Woman to Watch by InvestmentNews, and a Top 100 Minority Business Enterprise (MBE®) by the Capital Region Minority Supplier Development Council (CRMSDC). Rita is also a recipient of the prestigious Japanese Monbukagakusho Scholarship.

As a Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards (CFP Board) Ambassador, Rita helps educate the public, policy makers, and media about the benefits of competent, ethical financial planning. She serves as a Women’s Initiative (WIN) Advocate and subject matter expert for CFP Board, contributing to the development of examination questions for the CFP® Certification Examination. She served on the Financial Planning Association (FPA) National Board of Directors from 2013 – 2015 and is a past president of the Financial Planning Association of the National Capital Area (FPA NCA). Rita is also a past spokesperson for the AARP Financial Freedom Campaign.



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Wealth Management EDGE Podcast: LPL Financial’s Marc Cohen on Unlocking Growth in Wealth Management

Wealth Management EDGE Podcast: LPL Financial’s Marc Cohen on Unlocking Growth in Wealth Management

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What will be the winning strategies behind growth and success in the future of wealth management? 

In this episode of the Wealth Management Edge podcast, Mark Bruno, managing director of the wealth management group at Informa talks with Marc Cohen, executive vice president at LPL Financial about the future of wealth management, mergers and acquisitions, and effective technology and workflow management will drive a new wave of growth in the advice industry. 

Specifically, Mark and Marc discuss:

  • How specific technology utilization, time management, and diverse team collaboration can create capacity and leverage to add more clients.
  • How M&A is evolving and how acqui-hires and minority investments will continue to drive growth.
  • Investing in infrastructure to ensure consistent and high-quality financial advisory services.
  • Tuck-in activity among advisors as an alternative to starting new firms.

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Marc Cohen is the executive vice president of Strategy for LPL Financial. He is responsible for leading the development of creative and innovative ways for LPL to partner with advisors to ensure that each clients’ needs are met with a unique lens and advanced capabilities, tools, and solutions that allow them to thrive. 

Prior to joining LPL, Mr. Cohen was with MarketCounsel for more than a decade. While there, he helped entrepreneurial investment advisors build, manage, and expand their businesses. From serving as an architect behind many of the highest-profile breakaway deals in the industry, to supporting their journey as business owners through strategy development, evolving operational and compliance requirements, succession planning, and exit strategies, Mr. Cohen has helped successful advisors become successful entrepreneurs. 

Mr. Cohen earned a bachelor’s degree in Accountancy from The George Washington University in Washington, DC.

 

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