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What do you enjoy most about wealth management?
Building long-term relationships with families by providing clarity and objectivity in my role as trusted advisor.
What's the biggest challenge?
Differentiating successful long-term investing from shorter-term speculation.
What do you love most about being part of Aspiriant?
Being in the trenches day-to-day, with a group of industry veterans, solely committed to our clients.
What professional accomplishments are you most proud of?
Understanding the concerns, needs and complexities of high net worth families and serving them at the highest levels.
What qualities of yours make you best suited to what you do?
Curiosity and a commitment to constantly improve myself.
How should people think about their wealth?
Do the heavy lifting up front and have a plan in place for your wealth. Be disciplined around it.
What do you love to do outside of work?
Family and faith are priorities. Then either playing basketball, coaching basketball or dreaming about basketball.
What would you be doing if you weren't working at Aspiriant?
Playing small forward for the L.A. Lakers.
What was the most influential book you've read and why?
“Outliers,” by Malcolm Gladwell. Highly successful people get there by smarts, ambition and hustle. But luck and good fortune play a huge role as well. Be great, be humble and give back.
Bio
Sam joined Aspiriant in 2003 as an associate in Investment Advisory and has since worked his way up to a director and principal of the company.
Sam has provided investment advice to individuals, families and foundations for over 15 years. Prior to joining Aspiriant, he worked as a consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Los Angeles, where he specialized in tax services for high net worth families.
Sam earned his M.B.A. from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and studied finance at C.S. Northridge.
Sam is an active supporter of Hope for LA, an organization focused on serving the underprivileged and marginalized in Los Angeles. He lives in Calabasas, Calif., with his wife and two kids. He’s an avid golfer and plays regular games of pick-up basketball when not coaching youth sports.
