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Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Pellett. We have got thirteen minutes to go.

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Speaker 1: Ahead of that closing bell, the Dow and the SMP

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Speaker 1: extending gains amid corporate results that point to resilience in

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Speaker 1: the global economy. Dead on unexpected numbers this morning from

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Speaker 1: JP Morgan Chase up two percent, other bank stocks rallying

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Speaker 1: SMP five hundred index up twelve to sixty four again

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Speaker 1: The NaSTA Composite index. By the way, now at five

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Speaker 1: thousand thirty five, Dow Industrial is up one forty four points,

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Speaker 1: a gain of eight tenths of one percent. Gold up

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Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Pellett. That's a Bloombard business flash. Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much, Charlie Pellett. It's time now for the e

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Speaker 1: e t F. Let's go to Katherine Calgary for the

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Speaker 1: e t F Report. Vanguard took in one forty billion

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Speaker 1: dollars in new money in the first half of the year.

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Eric Baltuna says Vanguard's game continues to

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Speaker 1: cause Wall streets some pain. His reasoning, if you take

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Speaker 1: Vanguards three trillion dollars, they only take home about three

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Speaker 1: point nine billion dollars in fees from that money. To

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Speaker 1: put that into perspective, if for every three trillion active

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Speaker 1: every three trillion hedge funds have they taken about fifty

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Speaker 1: five billion. Valtuna says a popularity of low cost e

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Speaker 1: addition to Vanguard's low fees, the financial industry is also

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Speaker 1: index funds and e t s. Low turnover within those

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Speaker 1: funds means less revenue for Wall Street firms. That's your

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg ETF Report. I'm Catherine Cowdery. This is taking stock

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Speaker 1: with Gableen Hayes and Prim Fox on Bloomberg Radio. Your money,

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Speaker 1: your financial wellness. Someone that's looking out for your financial wellness.

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Speaker 1: Elliott Weiss Blooth. He is the founder and the chief

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Speaker 1: executive officer of High Tower, helping to manage about thirty

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Speaker 1: five billion dollars of customer assets. Elliott, thank you very

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Speaker 1: much for being in the studio. Always a pleasure him.

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Speaker 1: All Right, So you gotta just step back and tell

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Speaker 1: me what's been going on since last time we spoke,

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Speaker 1: Because you know, if you take a look at the

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Speaker 1: so far this year. But you've kind of done a

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Speaker 1: round trip. If you already packed in January and held

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Speaker 1: onto your your stomach as the stock market crater, what's

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Speaker 1: been going on. Well, hopefully if you have a good

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Speaker 1: at all the all the bad news. Markets recovered. Things

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Speaker 1: today look a little bit more stable. But if you

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Speaker 1: have somebody who's looking out for your investments for you, um,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to worry exactly about what's happening in

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Speaker 1: the marketplace because you've entrusted a professional, hopefully your fiduciary,

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Speaker 1: you mentioned fiducier. Maybe we can just do a little

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Speaker 1: sidebar here, because fiduciary is a hot word this year

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Speaker 1: because it has to do with the new Department of Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: and responding. So, first of all, the fiduciary standard is

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Speaker 1: not new. The fiduciary standard is embedded in what it

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Speaker 1: we don't we don't buy that. We don't think that's

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Speaker 1: helping to manage thirty five billion dollars. You're listening to

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