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Michael Carpenter  

Effectiveness and success of investment management firms.

Mike’s specialty is enhancing the impact, effectiveness and success of investment management firms, investment sales professionals and financial advisors in bull bear & uncertain markets. He is nationally known for his creative sales and marketing methods, unique investment insights, business building, and presentation skills. His product neutral, user-friendly “Risk-Wise” method shows investment professionals how to demystify risk and take the fear our risk management. This nontechnical approach allows financial professionals to convert elevated investor uncertainty, anxiety, and concerns about risk from business frustrations into powerful business and trust building forces. Michael’s writings and articles have appeared in national industry-wide publications and he conducts workshops and seminars around the country for investment professionals and/or their clients on a number of subjects including practical user-friendly ways to better understand and manage investment risk. His numerous presentations and workshops have included custom programs for investment industry professionals on the campuses of Harvard and Columbia Universities Mr. Carpenter has an outstanding reputation for helping individual investors make the most of challenging markets and helping investment professionals, investment marketing and sales professionals, and their firms, energize their business growth in any market or economic conditions. Mike’s 35 plus years in the financial services include experience as a successful financial advisor, division manager, and senior, national level positions with firms including UBS/PaineWebber Inc., John Hancock Financial Services, Inc., MFS, Transamerica Capital Inc., and Rydex Global Advisors before establishing his own consulting firm in 2003.

TOPICS • The Greatest Business Building Opportunity of Our Lifetimes • How to Turn Risk & Uncertainty Into a Business Building Opportunity • Common Risk Related Decision Making Traps and How to Avoid Them • Understanding & Benefiting From the Risk Perception / Risk Reality “Gap” • “Risk-Wise” Communications: The Secret to Improving Investor Trust In Uncertain Times • How to Help Your Clients Convert Risks Into Inconveniences • How to Create A Successful Bear Market Strategy Plan • What Every Financial Advisor & Investor Needs To Know About the Biology, Physiology & Psychology of Risks, Threats, and Uncertainty • “No Nonsense” Risk Management Strategy, Planning & Practice • Are You Ready for the “Next Normal?” • What Do We Do Now? • Risk Management Lessons from History That Can Help Us Today

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