In this Swift Chat conversation, show host Marie Swift speaks with Beth Mosshart, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at StraightLine, an award-winning Registered Investment Adviser (RIA), about how their education-first philosophy, a disciplined planning process, and research-driven investment approach help clients feel more confident about their financial futures. Mosshart explains how StraightLine's "Educate, Plan, Invest" framework shapes everything from client conversations to portfolio construction. She offers practical steps anyone can take to simplify their finances, protect their loved ones, and build toward long-term goals.

Learn more about Beth Mosshart and StraightLine at www.StraightLine.com.

​In this Swift chat conversation, Marie Swift sits down with Frank Corrado, a fiduciary financial advisor whose career has spanned public accounting, two decades at JP Morgan, over 20 years running his own independent RIA, and founder of Pivot Point, which partners with financial advisors and their clients as a "Chief Behavioral Officer" to help people move from insight to action at life's pivotal decision-making moments. Corrado shares the pivot points that shaped his path, from leaving Wall Street after 9/11 to earning his CFP, becoming a Registered Life Planner through the Kinder Institute of Life Planning, and now pursuing the Certification Financial Transitionist through the Financial Transitionist Institute.

Corrado highlights his new white paper, The Strategic Power of Humanization in Modern Wealth Management, which makes the case that the advisory profession is shifting from product and service-centric models toward a deeply human-centered practice. The conversation digs into the difference between personalization and humanization, why "soft skills" are in fact core skills, and how AI can free advisors to spend more time being guides rather than mechanics – without ever replacing genuine empathy and listening.

He also touches on the benefits of being a member of the Alliance of Comprehensive Planners (ACP) and how that methodology and community of like-minded financial planning and wealth management professionals has been an important part of his success.

Whether you're a financial advisor looking to deepen client relationships, build enterprise value, or simply rethink your value proposition in the age of AI, this conversation offers a thoughtful, experience-tested perspective on what it really means to put people first.

Connect with Frank Corrado on LinkedIn or learn more at www.GoPivotPoint.com.

In this Swift Chat conversation, Marie Swift speaks with Stacy Chitty of Blue Vault and Henry Zelikovsky of Softlab360 to discuss how better data and modern technology are transforming the way financial advisors and asset managers evaluate alternative investments.

The conversation explores Blue Vault's new research portal, built to bring greater transparency, usability, and depth to alternative investment data. With a Snowflake-backed data infrastructure and standardized performance metrics, the portal helps users analyze and compare offerings across non-traded REITs, BDCs, interval funds, tender offer funds, DSTs, and more.

Chitty shares his thoughts on why the market needed a better way to access alternative investment research and how Blue Vault has been collecting and vetting performance-based data since 2009. He emphasizes that the portal makes it easier to access standardized performance metrics, compare offerings, and evaluate risk, leverage, distributions, and other details that matter when assessing alternative investments. Zelikovsky highlights how Softlab360 helped build the portal's underlying technology and data architecture to support more flexible, scalable, and granular analysis. He sees the portal as a foundation for future capabilities like comparative analysis and more interactive, conversational ways to work with the data.

Learn more about Stacy Chitty and Blue Vault at www.BlueVaultPartners.com.

Learn more about Henry Zelikovsky and www.Softlab360.com.