And you guys got 400 million, you know,
under management now. And is it to get
to a billion? Is it to exit? What's the
goal?
>> Uh, right now the goal is to scale it to
a billion.
>> You're like in the Matrix. You You got
out of the Matrix.
>> Yeah. It's kind of a red pill situation.
Remember Wizard of Oz?
>> Yeah.
>> Like it's this big thing and then you
realize it's just the old man when you
look behind the curtain. Right. So,
>> um, that's what we're trying to help
people understand. The industry itself
spend a lot of money creating the
illusion that they can predict the
future, which they can't.
>> Yeah. And they do a lot of stuff that
isn't necessarily on the up and up for
me.
Welcome back to another episode of the
M19 podcast. Today we are going to go
over how you can have better financial
planning and it's going to be from a guy
who's managing over $400 million of
assets right now, helping people save
money on their taxes, hit their goals,
and everything else. I've got Alan
Camori. What's up, man?
>> How's it going, man?
>> It's good to see you. We are out here in
beautiful Celane, Idaho.
>> And uh man, I'm excited. Day one of this
trip.
>> Me too. Me too.
>> Yeah. How'd you like uh Pebble last time
we were out there?
>> It was It was epic. I wish it would have
played better.
>> Yeah. We didn't play great, but man, the
weather was great.
>> Yeah, it was. It was It was a good
group. I think
>> that being my first trip, that was the
best part was getting to see it
firsthand.
>> Yeah.
>> More than just knowing that it's
probably going to be like that.
>> Yeah. You know, getting to walk the walk
was fun.
>> Yeah.
>> So, let's jump into your story a little
bit. Um you are in the financial
planning space. What exactly do you guys
do?
>> Um well the the industry itself is kind
of broad right and you know a lot of
people everybody and their mom knows
somebody in this industry and on one end
the industry you got your insurance guys
and the other end you got your
warehouses like your marrows and all
that stuff. Um typically we sit
somewhere in the middle where we're
trying to make sure that we can help you
create whatever outcomes you're trying
to create. So, it's all about making
sure that you can do what you say you
want to do using money as a tool,
>> right?
>> And within that, you have all the
different pieces of financial planning
all the way to estate planning, tax
planning, all that other stuff. But, um,
essentially, the thing that we want, the
thing that we care about the most is
that you understand what you're doing,
that you can do it, and that you
actually get there.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. Yeah, cuz I think a lot of guys
when they they think about tax savings
or just financial or wealth management,
let's just say, they're like, I don't
know, I made some money. Invest it. Hey,
I made some money. I have a tax problem.
Yeah.
>> Like it's reactionary.
>> Yeah. And and even when you when you
invest it, if you commoditize it,
>> then it's the cheapest provider is going
to be the winner. Right.
>> Right. That's why everybody is always
like, "Oh, just drop it in a S&P 500
ETF, right?"
>> You know, with expenses below five basis
points. But expense is not the only
factor that you have to to weigh out. So
there's a lot of research that's
published. It's a lot of people a lot of
people don't use it. But there's
academic empirical research that shows
you if you start tilting the portfolios
down to the smaller sizes and more
towards the the value side of things
which are more distressed companies that
there's more juice you can squeeze out
of the same fruit of of risk. So when
you say you're you're getting them to
these smaller companies, like are we
talking publicly traded companies that
are just smaller or
>> Yeah. So you might you might not be in
Apple for example as much, right?
>> Which everybody's tilted. When we look
at
>> everybody's in like the top eight, what
do they call them?
>> Mag seven. Yeah. Which is like 35% of
the S&P right now. And it's just um it's
companies not like Apple that you've
heard of that you're familiar with. It
might be the people selling something to
Apple,
>> right?
>> I mean, if you look at a small cap
company, it's $2 billion. It's a big
company.
>> It's just that you've never heard of
them.
>> Yeah. I mean, a $2 billion company's
huge.
>> Yeah.
>> They're just not 100 billion.
>> Yeah. Exactly.
>> What do you think of uh SpaceX and
what's happening right now? I mean, at
the time of filming this, they just went
public this week
>> and Yeah,
>> a lot of people ask a lot of there's a
lot of demand because everybody knows
what happened to Tesla. Um,
>> but it's it's tough. I mean,
statistically speaking, IPOs
underperform. So
the way that we do things is we invest
in broad-based markets according to the
academic research of Dr. Eugene FMA and
Dr. Harry Marowitz. Marowitz has passed
already, but um basically if if there is
going to be SpaceX in the portfolio,
it's got to go through its paces a
little bit in order for it to be u to
hit all the metrics in order to
>> Yeah. want to make sure it's not just
doing a
>> not not that it's a pump and dump but
like
>> but that's what happens a lot is I know
everybody's excited it goes up and then
typical investors looking at it from the
side
>> typical investors know in intuitively
buy high I mean buy low sell high but
what they do is they buy high sell low
because they're waiting
>> for it to come up they get confidence
and then they start buying in
>> I don't know that I believe in it let me
go buy it at the peak
>> and then when something happens when the
when the sexiness of the deal is done
and you see a little bit of a pullback
they go oh no I don't like that and they
pull out. So, you know, just kind of
creates a downward spiral.
>> Yeah. So, with the investments you're
talking about, you like people in
smaller companies because they're going
to perform better.
>> Um, generally, you still you're still
going to own the big companies, right?
So, a lot of people think the S&P 500 is
diversified, for example, but is it
really because it's 500 of the largest
US growth stocks that and it's like a
third of it is those seven companies we
talked about earlier. So if you can
tilt, you still need those because in
certain times those are going to
outperform everything else,
>> right?
>> But if you you don't tilt it smaller and
you don't have any international
exposure, you don't have any of that
other stuff or you don't have any fixed
income that you can use to buy when the
equities are down,
>> then it's going to it's not going to
turn out the way that you
>> So do you guys create your own basic
like S&P 500 that you put your clients
in or what?
>> No, it's a it's a fund of funds model
that we use. We don't um we don't
actually trade on it ourselves. It
trades on an algorithm with a investment
advisor partner that we have and
basically what that does is it creates
automatic discipline because it can't be
overwritten by human emotion.
>> Right.
>> Right. So within that there's going to
be international exposure in the
different sizes. All the things are
according to those Nobel Prize winning
research principles.
>> Yeah.
>> Um so that's really the only way we do
it. It's not it's not the sexiest
though.
>> Yeah.
>> Right. Because they they the industry
packages things for people to
>> want to do. Yeah.
>> Not necessarily what's good for them,
but I always joke around with people
like the way we do things is like the
female peacock.
>> Okay.
>> As opposed to the male peacock.
>> I don't What's the difference?
>> Like the male peacock has all the
feathers and and it's bright blue and
all that stuff. Uh
>> a female peacock is still nice. It's
just not as um
>> doesn't have all the flash.
>> It doesn't have all the flash. Yeah.
>> Yeah. I don't like that. I like I like
the flash.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Most people do. Yeah.
>> Yeah. Yeah. For myself personally.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> So, tell me how how did you even get in
this industry?
Um, so I was playing baseball right in
college and um
>> I mean really that was like the only way
you you go to school cuz you want to
play.
>> Yeah.
>> So, um, when I was finishing up, it was
2008,
>> so that was when the the housing market
crashed and everything. I was in LA
>> and basically it was the only thing that
you could do or get hired at during all
that stuff, even though the market was
down and all that stuff,
>> right?
>> Yeah. Um, because they don't pay you a
salary,
>> right? So, think of like uh Pursuit of
Happiness with Will Smith. It was, you
know, basically they give you a big book
to call and that's what you're doing for
the first year and most people don't
make it out of that,
>> right?
>> Um and this is in Beverly Hills, so a
lot different when you're a kid from
Hawaii trying to
>> call on people in in LA and especially
Beverly Hills. But that's how I got into
it. But
>> ended up loving it because
>> not really from the model that we were
at in Beverly Hills. That was just a
strict sales model. That's where I got
exposed to understanding that behind the
curtain,
>> none of this financial industry stuff is
about helping people. It's about making
money and it's about sales.
>> Yeah.
>> So, even the bonding and rapport that
people do, they're they're classically
trained to do that with the client to
make them feel like you like them
>> and all they're trying to do is sell you
something.
>> Um, I don't believe that that's the
right way to do it. I think it should be
consultative. So,
>> it's more of a what are you trying to do
and let's figure out the best possible
way to get there. And maybe there's some
things that you haven't thought about or
different problem solving techniques
that you can have
>> in order to um to get there
>> more effectively. Yeah.
>> Right. So what at what point did you go
out on your own?
>> After about six years?
>> Okay.
>> I I kind of got tired of the of the
machine. I was at a big company, but um
you just I I just didn't agree with how
they were doing it. Right. Right. Nobody
would high-five you when you figured out
this really complex problem or helped
somebody get to some spot they wanted to
get to.
>> Right.
>> They only high-five you when you did
what they wanted you to do.
>> When you made a sale.
>> Yeah. When you made a sale for their
thing, right?
>> And so after that, I went independent
and I
>> What was it like leaving like a cushy
position and and starting your own firm?
>> Um little bit of a risk because you
basically have to start all over again,
>> right?
>> Right. Um, so that was 12 years ago and
um, little bit of a risk, but it it was
one of those things where are you going
to do what's right and put yourself
second,
>> right?
>> Or are you going to do what you don't
really want to do for the reasons you
don't want to do it and put yourself
first and your comfort first. So that's
really what it came down to.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. And since then, I've turned my
life over a few times even.
>> Yeah. like what what are some of the
biggest changes you've had to make over
the last decade now running your own
firm?
>> Uh more on the entrepreneurial side. Um
you know, we're kind of taught in the
business
uh to be more of a practitioner.
You're the one doing the plans. You're
the one figuring things out. Um but the
only way to help more people and scale
effectively is to be more of an
entrepreneurial mindset. So own the
company and and increase the reach. It's
like why you know people write books to
increase the amount of people that can
get you know the knowledge.
>> Yeah.
>> It's the same thing. So if you if you
really are purpose driven and you really
want to help people out the only way to
do that is to have more and more of you
>> right
>> out there trying to get you know trying
to get that message out there. So the
mission is to save as many families as
we can from this from the sales trap.
>> Yeah. Of just
>> you know not necessarily putting the
client first just trying to get the
money in the door. Yeah. And then the
people they the industry itself spend a
lot of money creating the illusion that
they can predict the future which they
can't.
>> Yeah.
>> And they do a lot of stuff that isn't
necessarily on the up and up for me.
>> Um like a fund that does poorly gets
absorbed into another fund.
>> Right. There are big names that
everybody knows.
>> Big names have maybe like 1,200 funds.
>> But if they knew which one was going to
be a best one, how many would they need?
>> You just need one.
>> You need one. Yeah. It would be called
the best fund ever, you know? So, so
that's the kind of stuff that that they
that they'll do. And um
>> they'll make money five ways from you
and you don't even see three or four of
them.
>> Right. Right. There's a lot of hidden
cost.
>> Yeah.
>> So, you're a golfer. You're a baseball
guy, too. You know, you played college
baseball and everything else.
>> Um what got you into golf?
>> Was actually after senior day. So, my
roommate was our second baseman. And you
know, I don't know if you remember your
senior day. Did Did you even go?
>> Well, I got drafted.
>> Drafted and you went, right? So, so I
had a senior day and I I'm running in at
the, you know, last game and it hits you
like, man, you're done.
>> Yeah.
>> Like this was your identity for so long
and you're not going to do it anymore,
>> right?
>> Um I didn't want to go to Sweden, you
know, on a pro contract.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> You know, um but uh my second baseman
was our our second baseman was my
roommate and he's like, "What are we
going to do?" And we both were like,
"Let's play golf."
>> You guys know I love the game of golf
and that is why I started M19. It is a
golf mastermind for entrepreneurs who
are doing over seven figures in their
business and who want to go on bucket
list golf trips together. We already
have hundreds of members all across the
country and we've been to some of the
best courses in the world. Places like
Pebble Beach, Pinehurst, Bandon Dunes,
and many others. The course is the best
place to do deals, make great
relationships, and have fun. So go to
mastermind 19.com today.
>> My dad was a golfer. Um I just never
really wanted to play when I was a kid,
but
>> but yeah, that's how I got into golf and
it was a mess the first couple years. I
don't know if it was for you.
>> Oh, yeah. Yeah. I suck.
>> Yeah. You blast the ball far but very
crooked, right?
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> It's big old slices from baseball guys.
>> Yep. For sure.
>> Yeah. So, what made you want to join
M19?
>> Um
the the sense of community with
like-minded people, especially in
Hawaii, it's kind of hard because um
you're kind of isolated out there. We
have clientele across the nation, but
>> in Hawaii, you seem to be the only one
that thinks a certain way
>> in a lot of circles. So,
>> um, expanding that reach and just having
a a community that can help each other
out that's all based on furthering your
own mission. Um,
>> and then I'd followed you for a while
and then when you started posting a lot
more about your faith is when I was
like, "Okay, that's it."
>> And my my business coach was telling me
I need to get involved in something like
that. And it was the perfect
>> combination of the the all that other
stuff that we want, right? The
community, the problem solving, the
having connections in different
>> areas and fields that can help you out,
but then and then the golf part was kind
of enticing.
>> Yeah.
Just just going and hanging out.
>> Yeah. We'll play Pebble Beach and we'll
go to abandoned dunes, you know. So,
yeah.
>> Tough cell.
>> Yeah. Exactly.
>> What uh what do you think's the biggest
thing you've learned? because you you
you said you already went to Pebble.
This is your second trip. Um I've seen
you golfing with guys out in Scottsdale
and other things too.
>> Yep. Um the coolest thing is really just
everybody that I've met through the
group is cut from a similar cloth. We
might be in different industries and all
that, but the the mindset and the fact
that you want to help people and you
genuinely want to see people succeed.
>> Yeah.
>> And you're willing to do that and
there's no ego in this group, which is
really cool, right? Um, and if there
was, I don't think they would have made
it through Yeah.
>> the interview process. So, I really like
that is
>> Or they'll get kicked out.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That'll happen, too.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which, um, but I
appreciate that because it keeps it
keeps the mission going instead of it
just being a me a membership drive.
Right.
>> Right. Um, but yeah, everybody's super
cool, super willing to help you out.
everybody. There's so many successful
people in the group, but if you were to
meet them on the street, you may or may
not know that they were running some
Yeah.
>> big business, you know.
>> Have you been able to pick up anything
from other guys who are in like the
financial services space?
>> Yeah, I mean, I I we see it everywhere,
even in this group, but um yeah, the the
hard part is just having them understand
or having anybody understand that there
is this machine and this trap that
exists and it may or may not be the best
thing for the for the client. So if you
really care about the client then
>> yeah helping them see the other see
that. Yeah. So that's actually part of
the mission too.
>> You're like in the matrix. You you got
out of the matrix.
>> Yeah. It's kind of a red pill situation.
Um and I and I my hope is that more
people even in this group even if
because I don't look at anybody as
competitors.
>> Want to help as many people as we can.
But I would hope that
>> as I talk to people in the industry that
they can kind of see that too,
>> right?
>> Yeah. Cuz I was, you know, Matrix is a
perfect example. I was once in there and
then I saw the other side of it and I
>> remember Wizard of Oz.
>> Yeah.
>> Like it's this big thing and then you
realize it's just the old man when you
look behind the curtain. Right. Right.
So,
>> um that's what we're trying to help
people understand.
>> Yeah. So, what do you think's the next
stage for you guys? And and what are the
goals with growing the firm? I mean, you
guys got 400 million, you know, under
management now. And uh is it to get to a
billion? Is it to exit? What's the goal?
Uh right now the goal is to scale it to
a billion which we're definitely on road
uh on our way to do that in the next
three to five years. Um so that's the
first kind of you know major
>> focal point right now because that's a
marker for us that shows us that we've
helped save more people from that trap.
Right.
>> Right.
>> And then um and then as we build from
there Yeah. getting up to two and and
seeing how far it'll go as the way it
stands now. I don't plan on exiting. I
like doing this. Um I believe in the
mission too. So, I don't really ever
plan to retire from this. Um,
>> I do have, you know, I have real estate
staff and and whatnot, but um but yeah,
it's it's fun.
>> What do you think you got to do
differently to get there?
>> Um, we got to do a lot of what we've
been doing over the last year or two.
Um, all roads to us lead through
education. So, unless the awareness
happens and unless you understand the
context of why we do things the way we
do,
>> it's not sticky enough. And then you
fall into the comm the commoditization
trap.
>> Yeah. You're like, I'll just do the easy
route.
>> Yeah. Exactly. I'll just do this because
it's cheaper or I'll just do this
because of whatever it is. People don't
pay people in our profession because of
the investment management. That should
just be a given. They pay us so that you
know like if you're if you're a captain
of a ship
>> and your flight your flight's going and
it's smooth and you hit a little bit of
turbulence. You pay us because when you
hit turbulence, we stop you from opening
the door mid-flight. Yeah.
>> You know what I mean? like people
selling their Bitcoin.
>> Yeah. So then when you think about that,
it doesn't it doesn't matter if your fee
was 50% but everything in your life that
you wanted to do still happen, right?
>> The fee wouldn't be a problem,
>> right? But I think that's the biggest
thing that people don't understand
because they look at it as a cost as
opposed to
>> like an insurance policy or
>> Yeah. Would you say that for most people
when it comes to wealth management, it's
like how many people are focused on just
kind of preservation and being
riskaverse versus growth?
Yeah, it depends. Um, generally speaking
though, you want all of it, right?
Right. So, even if you're 75 year old
kind of cruising in retirement, you
still want money that you need short
term that you can't really afford for it
to go up and down, then you want money
in a second bucket that maybe you'll go
on another couple trips if the market's
up or not, but you don't have to touch
that money for three years even if the
market's bad. And then you have your
last bucket generally with with more
horsepower, right?
>> And over time, that's what's going to
offset everything getting more expensive
and all that stuff. And then
operationally what you do is you just
move the profit over in years that the
market's up and when the market's bad,
you're holding off and and even buying
them.
>> Yeah. What do you what do you think of
the market right now with just this AI?
You know, some people call it a bubble.
>> Yeah, that's that's tough because it's
kind of like 1999 again with the
internet stuff, right? So, um,
>> and then I'm just seeing all these
companies like, yeah, actually tokens
are more expensive than humans. Like,
what are
>> this isn't working out the way we
thought. I don't know what's going to
happen. The thing about what we do is we
don't we don't even try to predict the
future because we know we can't. Right.
But the industry itself is going to be
huge. I mean, it's already here, right?
>> Right. And the in the next 6 months
it'll do what it did from inception,
right? Or or past that. So,
>> they're going to be huge companies.
There's going to be huge valuations. You
don't know which one they are uh
beforehand. If you did,
>> you'd be all in them.
>> I only need one stock. just give me the
one that's the 100x
>> and then you know when to get in and
when to get out.
>> Yeah, exactly. I got to know when to
buy, when to sell.
>> If it were only that easy, right? Um
>> but yeah, I mean that's that's it's
going to be a big space, but again, when
you stick to the fundamentals and you
only do it the discipline way. It might
not be the sexy way,
>> right?
>> But it's really the you don't have to
apologize for anything. You don't have
to,
>> you know, chase the one versus you avoid
shiny object syndrome. So
>> dope.
>> Yeah. Well, if anyone wants to work with
you, where would they where would they
go?
>> Uh, they can just go to our website. Um,
it's uh correlationadvisors.com, but
it's called
>> Correlation Advisors.
>> Yeah, it's correlation with only one R
though. It's on purpose. Um, C O R E L A
T I N Advisors.
>> Um, it was uh
>> it was available.
>> No, actually that's a part of it was
when you own an independent firm, man,
you run into if you have a good idea, 28
guys have it already. But
>> yeah,
>> it's um it really is based on the
acronym C O R E.
>> Okay.
>> Core.
>> Yeah.
>> Um which is creating outcomes requires
execution.
>> Oh, I like that.
>> And then there's, you know, some
justosition of words like elations in
there. Relation.
>> Got it.
>> So it's kind of how and then correlation
is a metric that we look at too, like
how closely linked is something to each
other.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> What would you say to as we wrap up,
somebody's watching this, they're
thinking about uh joining M19, what
would you tell them?
>> Oh, do it. Do it. If you're the type
that wants that community, you want to
meet great people, um, learn in
humility,
that's that's definitely the that to me,
I said this to one of the uh other
members, you know, Eric.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. So, I I um I was telling him after
that second day mastermind that we did.
>> Yeah.
>> I told him, dude, that was worth the
whole cost of the trip.
>> Yeah. that two-hour session,
>> but now we get to go play spy glass. So,
it's like
>> and we also still get to go play, oh, I
forgot about that. And then tomorrow we
play another course. So, I would say
>> if you're that type entrepreneur, high
performer,
>> you know, looking for that community,
then
>> yeah,
>> it's really it's going to be really hard
to beat this for sure.
>> Well, awesome, bro.
>> Well, I appreciate you coming on, man.
We're gonna have some fun today at uh
Aendale out here in Celane. It's going
to be a great trip and uh
>> uh we're we're playing in the same group
uh today. So, we're gonna
>> we're going to have a match.
>> Yeah,
>> we're going to have a good match. We
talked about thousand match um for the
week and uh it's going to be good. I'll
whoever loses donating to charity.
>> Yep. Donate to charity and I'll be 35 to
40 yards behind you on every hole. But
>> every most Well, actually, that's pretty
good for most.
>> That's actually pretty good.
>> Yeah.
>> But anyways, guys, um go check out
Allen's firm. We will link to it down
below. Uh if you need help getting out
of the matrix and you want to invest the
right way and know like that somebody's
got your back and that they are, you
know, not serving their best interest
but your best interest, go check them
out. We will link to it down below and
we'll see you on the next episode.
Peace.