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Leslie’s, Inc. (NASDAQ:LESL) Q4 2024 Earnings Conference Call November 25, 2024 4:30 PM ET Company Participants Matt Skelly – VP, IRJason McDonell – CEOScott Bowman – CFO Conference Call Participants Kate McShane – Goldman SachsSimeon Gutman – Morgan StanleyRyan Merkel – William BlairJonathan Matuszewski – JefferiesRene Marin – Guggenheim SecuritiesDavid Bellinger – Mizuho SecuritiesJustin Kleber – Baird Operator Good afternoon and welcome to the Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2024 Earnings Conference Call for Leslie’s. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Following the prepared remarks, management will conduct a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] As a…

I’ve been in the financial advisory business for roughly 28 years—and for 28 of those years, I’ve had a challenging relationship with the notion of “business development”—or the shadier moniker by which it is also known, “sales.” This has been such a tenuous relationship because many of us in the industry—and all of the advisors at my firm—consider themselves high-level professionals, not salespeople. Yes, without business development, there is no business, but many, if not most, professional advisors would much prefer to do great work, have that work recognized, and have prospects lining up to request being clients. Even most…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.China’s national technology champion Huawei is poised to launch its first flagship phone that can run its own apps on a fully homegrown operating system, in the latest sign of how technology is splintering into competing US and Chinese ecosystems. The Mate 70 smartphone set to be released on Tuesday will feature HarmonyOS Next, which Huawei hopes to establish as a third major mobile operating system alongside Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android.It is the latest demonstration that US sanctions designed to enfeeble the…

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Congress and the IRS made inheriting an IRA a very complicated, confusing event. Inherited IRAs are accompanied by a host of little-known rules that are traps for the unwary, and that’s before considering the end of the Stretch IRA and the creation of the 10-year rule that were enacted in the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act in 2019 and the accompany regulations that were finalized in 2024. There’s a host of under-the-radar rules beneficiaries need to know to minimize taxes and penalties and maximize the benefits of inherited IRAs. Here’s a review of them. Don’t contribute to…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Countries at the United Nations climate summit in Baku struck a final deal on the broad rules to launch carbon trading markets, almost a decade after being first proposed.The agreement passed at the UN COP29 climate summit late on Saturday night will allow countries and companies to trade credits for cuts in carbon emissions to offset their carbon footprints.The carbon trading mechanism had first been formally sketched out in the 2015 Paris agreement on limiting climate change, as a way for polluters…

This article was written byFollowJuan de la Hoz has worked as a fixed income trader, financial analyst, operations analyst, and as an economics professor. He has experience analyzing, trading, and negotiating fixed-income securities, including bonds, money markets, and interbank trade financing, across markets and currencies. He focuses on dividend, bond, and income funds, with a strong focus on ETFs. Juan is a contributor to the investing group CEF/ETF Income Laboratory which is led by Stanford Chemist. Features of the service include: managed income portfolios (targeting safe and reliable ~8% yields) making use of high-yield opportunities in the CEF and ETF…

If you’ve never encountered the term “decumulation,” you’re probably asking, “Decumu-what???” For most of your investing life, you’ve been focused on accumulation investing, building wealth over time by maximizing your investment returns for a given level of risk. You’ve had the luxury of longer time horizons and the ability to weather the consequences of short-term volatility. Detached from spending goals, your portfolio could grow undisturbed, maybe even on autopilot as the years passed. As you approach retirement, I need you to hear me on this: An accumulation mindset will not be ideal once you’re on the other side of full-time…

Donald Trump has picked Scott Bessent to be his US Treasury secretary, nominating one of his biggest financial backers as the top economic official of his second administration.Bessent will be responsible for overseeing the president-elect’s most prominent economic pledges, including sweeping tax cuts, while maintaining the stability of the world’s largest economy, its most important bond market as well as the dollar.The hedge fund manager’s economic philosophy seeks to bridge traditional free-market conservatism with Trump’s populism. He has defended the president-elect’s repeated threat of raising tariffs against accusations that they would upend relations with US allies and raise consumer prices,…

The Sage Group plc (OTCPK:SGGEF) Q4 2024 Earnings Conference Call November 20, 2024 3:30 AM ET Company Participants Steve Hare – Chief executive officerJonathan Howell – Chief Financial Officer Conference Call Participants Adam Wood – Morgan StanleyToby Ogg – J.P. MorganRahul Chopra – HSBCFred Boulan – Bank of AmericaCharles Brennan – JefferiesMichael Briest – UBS Steve Hare Good morning and welcome to Sage’s Full-Year Results. I’m pleased to be joined by Jonathan Howell, our CFO. Now I’m going to start with an overview of our key messages. FY ’24 was a successful year for Sage as we continue our strong…