As the head of the Slaughter Associates investment committee, Brooks Slaughter has a particular expertise in investment analysis and portfolio strategies, specifically designed to achieve client’s financial goals. His hands-on approach to wealth management allows Brooks to design and implement strategies for each client in a highly customized manner. With Brooks’ years of experience as a wealth manager, as well as his time as an electrical engineer, he brings a unique perspective to asset management and expertise in understanding his clients’ needs.
What are the best strategies for managing volatility?
All investments experience volatility. Even seemingly stable investments like cash in your home country’s currency can experience fluctuation. Viewed from the perspective of a foreign investor or an economist studying inflation, that domestic cash investment will show changes in value with surprising regularity. Illiquid investments like real estate or hedge funds appear similarly stable; however, just […]
How do you create a business that achieves high client retention rates and profitability?
When my father started Richard P. Slaughter Associates in 1991, he did so with the core philosophy of building a business where each client would be treated like a king or queen. He felt strongly that delivering wealth-management advice and services in an environment of integrity and graciousness would ensure the business would experience long-lasting […]
What are the nonmonetary considerations of selling your business?
Countless articles exist about selling your business—we’ve written several, ourselves—and most address the financial aspects of that transaction. However, much more is at stake than the valuations, financing and other economic details. In short, for anyone who has worked hard to build, then sell, a business, considering the emotional as well as financial aspects of […]
How do I determine which nontraditional assets are right for me?
Stocks, bonds, real estate and cash have long been the mainstream investments. In recent years, however, the number of dollars and investors moving into nontraditional assets has skyrocketed. “Nontraditional assets” include such things as private equity, arbitrage strategies, private debt and macro event-driven strategies. While these can provide new investment opportunities, there are many factors […]
