In the wealth management space, advice is everywhere, but understanding is rare.Most advisory platforms today are powered by backward-looking data: portfolio balances, transactions, and risk scores. These inputs make sense to systems, but not to people.Marla Sofer sees the blind spot. She started as a financial advisor, then spent over a decade inside the operating cores of JP Morgan and BlackRock. She’s helped scale product and partnership teams inside Microsoft. Today, she’s building Knowmee, a company that operates on a simple premise:

If you want to give better advice, you need better data. And not just more of it, more human data.

In the latest episode of Advisor Ally, we sat down with veteran financial advisor Jack M. Firestone, who recently retired after 37 years in wealth management and over 35 successful years at the helm of Firestone Capital Management. Jack opens up about his unexpected journey from the symphony orchestra world into finance, how he built an $800M+ client-centric advisory firm, and the secrets behind his success in cultivating multi-generational client relationships.

The latest episode of Advisor Ally with Serge Berger, Chief Investment Officer at Blue Marlin Advisors LLC.The latest episode of Advisor Ally with Serge Berger, Chief Investment Officer at Blue Marlin Advisors LLC. A wide-ranging conversation on the most pressing and often misunderstood realities of investing, market behavior, and the future of financial advice in an AI-driven world.