Simplifying Investments with Rick Wedell (Ep. 19)
How can you make financial planning feel less like a daunting task and more like a solvable puzzle?
In this episode of the Financial Puzzle Playbook, host Jim Sumpter, CFP®, dives deep into the complex yet essential piece of the financial puzzle: investments. Joining him is Rick Wedell, President and Chief Investment Officer of RFG Advisory. Rick shares his wealth of knowledge and unique background, bringing insights from his extensive experience in the investment world. Together, they unravel the complexities of diversification, risk tolerance, and emotional decision-making in financial planning—making it easy to understand how to align your investments with your life goals.
Jim and Rick discuss:
- (06:06) Understanding diversification in investments
- (10:38) Navigating risk tolerance through life stages
- (15:49) The impact of media noise on financial decisions
- (23:58) Insights on comprehensive financial planning
- And more
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About our Guest:
As the President and Chief Investment Officer for RFG Advisory Group, Rick Wedell is directly responsible for the direction and management of RFG’s investment strategies, setting the vision for our research capabilities, and managing a turn-key investment platform engineered to help our advisors and their clients with their most pressing investment needs. Rick previously spent over a decade at Bain Capital Credit, where he was the Head of the Consumer Group as well as an assistant Portfolio Manager for an $8bn CLO business.
RFG Advisory is an innovator in the wealth management industry. Passionately committed to serving independent financial advisors and their clients, RFG Advisory delivers to advisors a turn-key integrated technology platform to manage their practice and an institutional-caliber investment management team. RFG defines itself as a client experience company first, a technology company second, and an RIA third. Recognizing that the industry is in a state of transition, RFG is committed to providing advisors with the tools they need to serve their clients, capture market share, and grow their businesses in the face of an ever-changing business landscape.
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