Tyson Walker of Orion OCIO - The Ins and Outs of Portfolio Audits

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Today Rusty & Robyn are joined by Tyson Walker, Director of Portfolio Strategy at Orion OCIO, also known as Town Square Capital, in Salt Lake City. Tyson Walker serves as the Director of Portfolio Strategy at TownSquare Capital, where he leads a dedicated team of investment analysts. In this role, Tyson ensures that financial advisors receive expert guidance on investment models and asset allocation decisions, optimizing their clients’ financial outcomes. Tyson is a member of the TownSquare Investment Committee where he lends his expertise on equity markets and chairs the Equity Subcommittee. In addition to his Portfolio Strategy responsibilities, Tyson plays an integral role on the sales team, assisting to bridge the investment gap for new Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) partnering with TownSquare Capital. Prior to working at TownSquare Capital Tyson worked for Fidelity Investment as a member of the International Trade team. There he traded equities and currencies in over 30 countries. He attended the University of Utah and earned a bachelor’s degree in economics.

Key Takeaways

• [03:05] - Learn more about Tyson’s career and what he is doing in his current position.
• [06:10] - What is TownSquare’s investment philosophy and how does it stand out from its peers?
• [09:45] - How has TownSquare been able to build such a loyal and excited following among advisors?
• [11:53] - What are the main objectives of TownSquare’s portfolio audit and what insights are they hoping to find?
• [15:40] - What are some of the common findings in portfolio audits? Also, how often do portfolio audits not turn up suggested portfolio changes?
• [18:18] - How often does the audit impact the asset allocation of a particular household?
• [22:56] - What is Tyson’s favorite investment idea for 2024?

Quotes

[16:30] - “Oftentimes [in our audits] we’re going to see portfolios that will own the same investment. They’ll own a Microsoft, or an Apple, or something 7 or 8 times within their portfolio. So, if we think of…an example of why that may be a problem… In any single day, that client [might have] two transactions happen on Apple, in their portfolio, but their exposure has stayed…the same. ” ~ Tyson Walker

[20:17] - “Imagine you walk into your local grocery store [and] you go to the produce section, and you know, you can buy a watermelon for say 50 cents a pound, right? But you could also walk 10 additional steps to the refrigerated section, and you could buy a watermelon that’s been sliced up, and it’s got saran wrap over it, and it costs four times as much, right?...We tend to see that the same thing can happen within Wall Street, where…[people] will take the same stocks and bonds, take them to the back out of sight, cut them up, package them, price them at different numbers, you know, and then you end up paying a lot more.” ~ Tyson Walker

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