From Lake Tahoe, Zephyr market strategist Ryan Nauman hosts Zephyr’s Adjusted for Risk Podcast with Aapryl's Bill Himpele and Cesar Gonzales to discuss why allocators should move beyond backward-looking performance reporting toward skill-based analytics. They explain that much apparent outperformance is driven by cyclical market and style exposures rather than repeatable manager skill, and describe Aapryl’s peer-relative methodology, including style-adjusted “passive portfolio” clones that separate exposure from skill and break skill into stock selection, timing, and consistency. The episode highlights Aapryl metrics such as the Aapryl Score (rank 1–5) and expected alpha, supported by ongoing quarterly testing and machine learning to form a forward-looking view. They also cover the Zephyr–Aapryl partnership embedding Aapryl analytics in the Zephyr dashboard, including coverage of SMA managers via Zephyr’s PSN database, to improve diligence, communication, transparency, and decision accountability.
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00:00 Welcome to the Podcast
01:15 Meet Bill and Cesar
03:46 Why Skill Beats Performance
07:30 Advisor and Allocator Impact
09:31 Aapryl Score and Expected Alpha
11:51 Peer Groups and Return Based Analysis
15:09 Zephyr Aapryl Partnership
20:26 Who Benefits and SMA Coverage
24:48 Transparency and Evidence Based Testing
27:57 Wrap Up and Where to Learn More
Connect with Ryan Nauman:
Let's go.
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:Ryan: Hello everyone and welcome to
zephyr's adjusted for Risk Podcast
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:from the shores of Lake Tahoe.
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:I'm Ryan Amman, the market
strategist here at Zephyr.
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:Like so many other aspects within the
wealth management space, the different
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:ways allocators and wealth managers
can analyze investment strategies.
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:managers has evolved.
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:One can look at the underlining
holdings or focus on return streams
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:to uncover performance behavior.
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:Well, I am lucky to have on two
industry experts who can help
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:us understand the different
approaches and what they believe.
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:Might be the more superior approach.
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:But first, today's episode is sponsored
by the award-winning Zephyr, which
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:helps investment professionals
make more informed investment
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:decisions on behalf flare clients.
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:Alright, I've already talked enough.
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:Let's go ahead and move on
to the stars of the show.
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:I am honored.
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:I'm very excited to welcome Bill
Hemley and she Cesar Gonzalez.
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:Bill is the Director of Product
and account Management, and Cesar
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:is the lead client consultant.
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:At April, both of them
from April, and Cesar.
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:Thank you so much for coming on.
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:Really, it's an honor to have you on.
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:I've known you guys for some time, Cesar.
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:We've worked together in the past
and some content in the past.
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:It's gonna be a great conversation.
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:Really excited about it.
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:You know, Kim you please tell us a
little bit more about yourself in April.
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:Let's go ahead and start with you, bill.
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:Bill Himpele: So thank you very
much, Ryan, for having us on today.
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:We're, we're certainly excited and
proud to, to, to speak with you here.
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:So I am the Director of
Product management in April.
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:I've been in the industry for
about 20 years in, in with
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:investment management technology.
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:And I lead the product strategy for our
April platform and the April platform
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:Decomposes manager performance to
try to find repeatable skills like
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:stock selection or factor timing.
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:Using peer, relative attribution
trying to help allocators see,
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:you know, beyond just the raw
returns to try to identify a skill.
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:Ryan: Fantastic.
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:Cesar Gonzales: I'm Cesar Gonzalez.
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:I've been in the industry for 35 years
as an allocator, as a manager researcher.
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:So the perspective that I provide as
we talk to Zephyr user is how can you
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:use it from a, allocation perspective,
how do you use it to tell your
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:prospective clients how to use you?
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:So I work closely with clients, our
consultants as a managers who are
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:trying to explain their performance in
a way that is credible and actionable.
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:You know, what we see consistently is the
traditional tools tells you what happened,
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:but not why it happened in a way that
you can really rely on going forward.
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:So.
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:April fills that gap by helping clients
isolate through skill, communicate it
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:clearly, whether that's in a manager
selection, client reporting, or due
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:diligence efforts, nice to see you again.
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:Ryan.
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:Ryan: That's fantastic, Cesar
and Bill, thank you for that.
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:And Cesar, real quickly, I am glad you.
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:You brought that up about, know,
just the behavior and you know,
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:the manager, what the Yeah.
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:How they're doing it
and, and the scale too.
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:How are they outperforming,
I think it's very important.
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:And why do you think it's important
to move from more of the performance?
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:reporting to skill-based
analytics when explaining a
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:manager's performance behavior.
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:What's the difference between the two?
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:The, the performance only reporting
or in the skill-based analytics?
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:Cesar Gonzales: Ryan,
that's a good question.
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:So when we look at performance
only reporting, that only
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:tells you the outcome.
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:So it's backward looking.
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:It doesn't tell you what caused them.
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:The problem is that most outperformance
is actually driven by market and
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:style exposure, not manager skill.
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:And those exposure are cyclical in nature.
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:So what looks like a top manager
in one period often doesn't
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:persist in the next period.
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:So using skill-based analysis
changes that by asking a different
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:question, did the manager do beyond
the exposure they were taking?
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:So that as an allocator.
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:will pay the the alpha fee,
not for a beta exposure.
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:Ryan: Bill, do you have
anything to add there too?
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:Bill Himpele: Yeah, that's exactly right.
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:That's exactly right.
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:We found that a lot of the traditional
metrics are not very persistent.
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:Um, in, in some cases they're,
you know, they say the, the best
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:way to find a five star manager
in 36 months is to look for a.
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:Three star manager today.
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:Um, and so that's, that's why we're
looking to, to, to sort of move
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than just that, that raw performance
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:We want to try to find what will happen.
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:Ryan: I love that.
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:And Cesar, you mentioned it before too,
I always talk about, you know, it's
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:easy to ask, you know, like how, but
it's why, you brought it up before too.
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:I, I always, I always have questions.
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:Why did something happen?
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:Why did you do that?
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:Or a lot of people ask me, Ron,
why in the world did you do that?
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:I don't know most of the time
why I did something, but like,
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:why did the manager outperform?
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:Sure they outperformed,
that's great, but why?
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:Are they gonna be able to do it again?
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:You brought it up perfectly and
and that's the most important part.
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:Cesar Gonzales: So.
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:. If you, if you think of it, you know,
the challenge really is everyone's used
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:to looking at the traditional alpha or
peer ranking, and they don't tend to
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:be persistent you know, a, a measure
of whether the manager has success.
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:So you end up selecting managers
based on what just work.
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:Not what likely to work because all the,
you know, the information ratio, all those
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:it shifts the conversation from
who outperformed to who has
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:repeatedly you know, have that
process that lead to outperformance.
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:If you identify a good manager, that
would lead to better manager selection,
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:better portfolio construction, and,
and ultimately fewer surprises when
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:the market condition changes because
now you are trying to find the best
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:manager or the one that has a higher
probability of outperforming for
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:a particular role in the portfolio
instead of just hiring a manager.
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:And expecting them to perform in all
types of markets, all types of styles.
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:The April Analytics allows you to go
more refined in evaluating whether
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:Ryan: Bill, so let's, turn the page here.
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:Why does the shift to skills-based
analytics matter to, like you guys said,
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:like to advisors and allocators, the
people that are making the decisions
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:on what managers to use, and said,
we're so used to looking all of our
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:analytics for the most part that we're
accustomed to, whether it's information
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:ratio alpha, it's backwards looking.
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:Why is this shift important
to advisors and allocators?
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:Bill Himpele: I think it's important
because we need to, to sort of find
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:out, like Cesar just said, you know,
who has the best process, who, you
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:know, when the market conditions
change, uh, and, and a manager who
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:You still need that, that exposure
for, for that type of style.
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:So you still want to have a manager
that may not be in favor, but you need
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:the manager who's gonna outperform
the other managers of that style.
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:And so the skill is, or the, the,
the task is to find the managers
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:with the best skill, regardless
of the market conditions.
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:So I think that's sort of the reason
why we, why we are, are shifting
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:the look to the skill as opposed
to just those, you know, who's
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:Ryan: Yeah.
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:Cesar Gonzales: and we start that
really by fixing the benchmark problem.
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:Instead of comparing a manager
to a generic index, we build
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:that style adjusted clone,
which we call passive portfolio.
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:That reflects the manager actual.
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:Investments that leads us to isolate
what portion of the return came from
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skill into three components.
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:You know, stock selection, their
timing, their consistency, and and
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which of those persist over time.
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looking view on the manager skill, not
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:Cesar is, you know, how does April address
this shift to skill-based analytics?
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:You talked or you mentioned, like I said.
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:You know, information ratio, it's a
great statistic, measures consistency
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:and are you outperforming, are you you
know, offsetting that fee the manager's
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:charging, but also there's other
statistics that are backwards looking.
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:there certain statistics that you use
that might be more forward looking or
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:are they more, like you said, based
on skill and other just analytics that
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:you look and the returns that might
help you forward looking analytics?
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:Cesar Gonzales: Yeah.
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:So one of the key metrics we have is
the April score, which is rank one to
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:five, one being the best, meaning that
three years forward, we're predicting
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:that this particular manager relative to
their peer group, has a higher likelihood
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:of outperforming, is a aggregation of
different skill metrics where we look at
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:each individual category, and depending on
the category, it'll favor as a indicator.
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which is a, a modified batting average,
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know, the magnitude of outperformance.
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managers, know, three years
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will try to em to emphasize.
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:So what will happen now as an alligator
is you, at the at the manager, you
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you say, okay, I made a beta bet and
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evaluating, interviewing meanders
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I focus my energy on those that
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same time it allows you to more refine
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the o other options that you have.
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anything to add there?
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:I think it's very important to do, like,
you know, that peer comparison, right?
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something, but it means so much more
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:Bill Himpele: Yeah, and that's
foundational to the April methodology.
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:Everything is, is
essentially peer relative.
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:Because you know, we, you know,
you typically have already made a
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:decision on the type of manager that
you're looking to allocate towards.
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:So what matters now is, okay, which
manager does better than their peers?
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metrics, all of our skill rankings.
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relative to a peer group.
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objective peer group too.
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:You know, we don't just take,
you know, our data feed and say,
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themselves into peer group A or B.
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:Um, we actually objectively we'll reassign
managers to a peer group if we feel that
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just the standard peer group as well.
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:Cesar Gonzales: And.
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:Ryan: Yeah, go ahead, Cesar.
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:Cesar Gonzales: The other
data that's unique to April
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looking, you're just stating what's the
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of this manager from a, you know, a
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we believe this manager can produce.
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to the April score.
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alpha, and this is helpful for managers
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expected alpha from a manager or for
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particular category, I index them.
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opportunities, when you say, okay,
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that would fit what we're looking
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:Ryan: Yeah, that's great.
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:And to go back to Bill, your
universe that you guys create,
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returns based style analysis to look at
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industry where, you know, there's
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that also produce a dividend sure.
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sometimes act like a value manager too,
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more so than holdings.
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mutual funds give you all the holdings?
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:Bill Himpele: That's exactly right.
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because the data's very hard to
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great about returns based is that you can
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and almost immediately get some insights,
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:Ryan: Yeah, versus trying to figure
out exactly what the hold, you know,
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:Bill Himpele: right.
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:Ryan: are and that's what's great about
separately managed accounts even ETFs
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more efficient there, but in terms of
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more efficient, like you said, timely.
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:So speaking of that, and Zephyr and
April the two firms recently made
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:Bill, can you please tell us a little
bit more about that partnership?
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:Bill Himpele: We're
really excited about this.
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:Um, so I guess it was early January,
um, we began to embed some of our
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:And that's an overall strategy
that we have is to take April.
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April platform you know, which is
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platform, but, uh, our strategy
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meet the users where they are.
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:So let's, let's take
our analytics and, um.
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advisors and allocators are doing
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:their, their manager analysis.
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:And so what we've done is we've taken
our skill metrics some of the ones
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you can go into the Zephyr dashboard
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what type of skill ratings they have.
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the, the research that's already being
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that users are already seeing in Zephyr.
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:Now this is sort of another layer
that they can put on top of that.
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goal is not to necessarily
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is very deep rooted and it's very hard
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into the game of saying, Hey, stop using
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meet users where they are embed our, our
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they're in Bloomberg, they're using fin
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for us make a lot of sense to, uh, to
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know, the traditional metrics as well.
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about the partnership with Zephyr.
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and a lot of, you know, users really,
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anything to add there?
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well, and, and, and we.
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of managers and you know, many of
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you already have clients wants to
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diligence on a product or a manager.
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often tell people in the research
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story of that investment manager,
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know, doing a back test, looking
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different time periods, rolling returns.
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around that performance and you
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are also very excited.
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another layer to that story.
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:help you understand, the performance and
the behavior of a manager and forward
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day, guys, what's most important is the
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meeting, their investment objectives.
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investment professionals make more
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decisions and we're excited about it.
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get a better understanding of, of a
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know, we, we've really been focusing a lot
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on managers for manager selection, but
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this to be pretty helpful as well.
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you know, as a marketing tool.
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from a style perspective to see are
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say that they're doing, and how do
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you said it Bill, are they doing
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really following that investment
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instead of a value fund.
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:Cesar Gonzales: it really allows for
a more transparent and more credible
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in our own personal experience.
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you have to to a client what
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whereas, you know, the traditional
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you're actually guiding them on how to
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you know, using the April insights.
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very important right now.
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shortly, Cesar, but real quickly, let's
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and April help allocators and managers?
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go a little bit deeper and, you know,
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:Cesar Gonzales: So for allocators,
it really makes their D diligence
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benefiting from pure exposure versus
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them change the communication of
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you know, relying on relative
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from or not coming from.
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timing, or consistency it provides
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happened and what the client should
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transparency and then it gives the manager
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again because you're a value
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:The insight from April allows you to
communicate what really is happening with
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what's happening in your peer group,
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group is having a, a challenging market.
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not to make a knee-jerk reaction of
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and, and understand is there something
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market environment, that just be pulling
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without doing additional research.
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to, you know what Bill was saying,
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don't want it a, you know, apples to
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comparing the same manager to like
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:managers, otherwise your analysis
will get all thrown outta whack.
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:Bill, you know, a lot of times, and it's
evolved now, changed a little bit, but.
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investment performance and managers,
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Zephyr, kind of as a generic term.
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any type of manager.
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think of mutual funds.
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managed account database, which
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databases in the industry in
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strengths of, of the partnership of this
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the PSN database for our separately
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we, and we've had that partnership.
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about eight, eight or nine years now.
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is, that is one of the great parts
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we're layering our our analytics
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that already exists within Zephyr.
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said, separately managed accounts.
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we're gonna talk about Cesar.
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industry now, especially younger
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transparency in their investments.
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what they're holding.
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are more transparent, but really
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each individual name.
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or growth in because of the
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with returns based style analysis is
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but you have the transparency of holdings.
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analysis much more comprehensive.
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investment management in the
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of active management.
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:How is April addressing this shift to
transparency and evidence-based evolution
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:Cesar Gonzales: Sure.
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:So the industry is moving towards
more evidence-based decision making.
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the staffing, the type of skills they
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managing and leading pension plans.
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being used still relies on metrics.
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at different ways, like an April
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you know, is this a good forward
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rely on from an efficacy standpoint?
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:So what we do is we test
our skill metrics, you know.
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that we include the entire universe
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show that manders with stronger
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outperform over the next three years.
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provide the proof that this is
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quarter, not just based on a back
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the new type of investors increases.
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you know, public plans are incorporating
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insights that April is providing
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at being transparent with the manager,
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for the decisions that they made.
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on the April score, you can
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:Ryan: Predictable.
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a lot about this on the podcast.
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you know, I feel as if this combination,
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a portfolio manager, a strategy,
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because it might be more show, more
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and exactly what they're doing.
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:Bill Himpele: I think that, I
think Cesar really nailed that.
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strategy and our, our perspective.
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:Ryan: Awesome gentlemen,
great conversation.
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:Ryan: about the analytics and you
know, the, the analytics behind the
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a, of a portfolio manager of a strategy.
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trying to understand that story.
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returns over a five year.
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tells you one piece of the pie.
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understanding that that's what we're
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:Thank you so much, bill and
Cesar for coming on the show.
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:Bill, where can our audience get
more information about April?
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:Bill Himpele: You can, you can
either go to our website april.com
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:and it's spelled A-A-P-R-Y-L.
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:You can reach out to [email protected]
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the AMZ conference down in Naples.
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you can go to the Zephyr dashboard
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:Ryan: Fantastic.
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:All right gentlemen, thank you
so much and thank you everyone
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Zephyr's adjusted for Risk podcast.
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on the Zephyr YouTube channel and Spotify.
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:Thank you very much and have
a great rest of your week.
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:Cesar Gonzales: Okay, you take care.