Citywire This Week in Wealth

Meet the ex-Yankee taking a swing at running his own RIA

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Happy Opening Day! Ian and Citywire RIA reporter Peter Saalfield speak with ex-New York Yankee Kevin Thompson, now the CEO of 9i Capital Group and learn about how he went from seeing his advisor affected by the Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme to running his own wealth manager, how his firm operates as a smaller practice in a consolidating industry and how Derek Jeter made his own rules of the road (you'll understand when you listen).
2 Apr English United States Investing

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