Benjamin S. Littman, Cfp® Email & Phone Number

San Diego, California, United States

Creating growth and succession opportunities for RIA founders and advisors through the M&A process.

San Diego

The committee meets quarterly and ad hoc to position our portfolios for the greatest chance of success. We are focused on low cost, globally diversified, and academically influenced investment strategies.

San Diego, California, United States

Identifying and implementing new technologies across the org. M&A Integration from both a systems and culture standpoint. Working with business partners to build analytics dashboards and client facing deliverables.

Greater San Diego Area

Responsible for the strategy, management, and trading of over $3.9 Billion in assets.Led a team of 7 driving innovation and creativity designing and scaling tax overlay investment management platform for 3,000 clients and 12,000 accounts. Bridged the gap between technology, financial planning, and scalable results-driven investment management by breaking it down in a way advisors and clients understood. Implemented Direct Indexing Solution via Orion Astro integrated with broader asset location and allocation strategy. Designed core-satellite suite of allocation models using N-tier methodology in Tamarac. Provided steady stream of investment thought leadership and collateral

San Diego

Developed and coded proprietary client facing application displaying current portfolio asset location and asset allocation snapshot (client specific) used in 9,000+ review meetings per year. Designed entire app from UX to backend data to daily upkeep and maintenance procedures. Wrote total book ERP Advisor Dashboard updated daily and used as a method of communication between advisors and centralized trading desk. Used for cash management, IPS compliance, asset location monitoring, advisor comp tracking. Created logic-based trade request system in Salesforce enabling advisors and compliance to communicate trade instructions. Developed and managed entire billing process with most fees pulled on second day of the qtr. Billing in advance and prorating flows in arrears with multiple billing specs. Developed and maintained automated advisor compensation system. Worked hand in hand with Tamarac since 2008 helping develop and test new features. One of a handful of top power users of their Reporting, Billing, and PM products. Successfully migrated entire instance of Tamarac to their unified single sign on platform. Created Sales/Management dashboard providing KPIs on firm metrics.

Greater San Diego Area

Responsible for the trading and management of over $2 Billion in assets.Implemented and scaled asset location, rebalancing, and tax loss harvesting across the firm. Built trade desk workflows and procedures while training new employees. Created robust audit procedures. Refined best execution. Created and updated firm wide backtest of all models. Regulatory filings. Built detailed EOQ procedures

San Diego

Processed advisor trade requests. Formed Pure's relationship with Tamarac in 2008. Performed rebalances. Worked through daily data reconciliation for security pricing and transactions.

San Diego

Established Pure's financial planning process/department. Developed how the firm worked within various financial planning tools. Recruited, hired, and trained the initial financial planning team. Created the financial plans for the firm's first several hundred clients.

Mba

Bs, Financial Services

Personal Financial Planning Certificate