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Lendingjoellewis/finance_skillsAnalyze lending products including mortgages, HELOCs, and personal loans with amortization and comparison tools. Use when the user asks about mortgage comparison, fixed vs ARM rates, loan qualification, amortization schedules, extra payments, or buying points. Also trigger when users mention 'monthly payment calculation', '15-year vs 30-year mortgage', 'PMI', 'APR vs interest rate', 'HELOC', 'home equity', 'should I buy down the rate', 'biweekly payments', or ask how much house they can afford.02Liquidity Managementjoellewis/finance_skillsPlan and manage cash flow to ensure adequate liquidity while minimizing opportunity cost of excess cash. Use when the user asks about cash flow forecasting, CD or bond laddering, liquidity tiers, income smoothing for variable earners, or sweep strategies. Also trigger when users mention 'T-bill ladder', 'where to park cash', 'irregular income budgeting', 'freelancer cash management', 'lumpy expenses', 'liquidity ratio', 'how much cash to hold', or ask how to plan for large upcoming expenses.02Margin Operationsjoellewis/finance_skillsGuide margin lending, margin requirements, and margin call operations for brokerage and advisory accounts. Use when calculating Reg T initial margin or buying power, determining maintenance margin or house requirements, evaluating portfolio margin eligibility under OCC TIMS, generating or resolving margin calls (fed call, house call, exchange call, day-trade call), designing forced liquidation waterfall logic, structuring securities-backed lines of credit (SBLOC), computing margin interest impact on returns, assessing concentrated position margin, understanding pattern day trader rules, or reviewing FINRA 4210 and Reg U requirements. Also covers SMA calculations and short margin mechanics. For OTC derivatives margin (variation/initial margin, CSAs, SIMM) see counterparty-risk.02Market Datajoellewis/finance_skillsDesign and manage market data infrastructure — real-time and delayed feeds, Level 1/2/3 depth, consolidated tape vs direct feeds, vendor selection, licensing, and distribution architecture. Use when choosing between real-time and delayed data, evaluating market data vendors like Bloomberg or Refinitiv, designing ticker plants or fan-out architecture, managing exchange data licensing and entitlements, diagnosing stale quotes or missing ticks, deciding between SIP and direct exchange feeds, or assessing Level 2/3 depth-of-book requirements for trading. Trigger on: market data, Level 1/2/3, depth of book, consolidated tape, SIP, direct feed, NBBO, ticker plant, B-PIPE, data license, non-display use, market data entitlements, conflation, tick data, real-time feed.02Next Best Actionjoellewis/finance_skillsDesign and implement next-best-action engines that surface proactive, prioritized recommendations to advisors based on portfolio, life, market, and compliance events. Use when the user asks about building event-driven advisor alerts, designing trigger logic for portfolio drift or large cash movements, prioritizing competing actions across a book of business, routing NBA recommendations to the right team member, measuring NBA acceptance rates, or automating compliance-driven actions like annual review reminders. Also trigger when users mention 'next best action', 'advisor nudges', 'proactive outreach', 'what should I do for this client', 'event-driven triggers', 'action queue', 'client contact gap', 'RMD reminder', or 'advisor productivity tool'.02Operational Riskjoellewis/finance_skillsGuide identification, measurement, and management of operational risk in trading and brokerage operations. Use when designing trade error detection and correction procedures, investigating trade breaks and reconciliation failures, classifying loss events under Basel taxonomy, developing key risk indicators (KRIs) and dashboards, responding to system outages or data feed failures or order routing errors, conducting root cause analysis after a trade error or operational incident, planning business continuity and disaster recovery for trading desks, preparing for FINRA or SEC operational risk examinations, or assessing technology risk in OMS and market data systems. Also covers fat-finger errors, error account P&L, and corrective action tracking.02Order Lifecyclejoellewis/finance_skillsGuide the design and implementation of order lifecycle management in trading systems. Owns FIX application-layer message flows (NewOrderSingle, ExecutionReport, cancel/replace) and order state. Use when building an order state machine for an OMS or EMS, handling cancel/replace race conditions, defining pre-submission validation rules (buying power, position limits, restricted lists), selecting order types and time-in-force instructions, designing multi-leg or OCO or bracket orders, building CAT-compliant audit trails, troubleshooting order rejections or unexpected state transitions, hardening an OMS against edge cases, or implementing order persistence and recovery for failover. Also covers execution-report handling, ClOrdID chaining, and partial fill aggregation. For FIX session management (logon, sequence gaps, disconnects) see exchange-connectivity.02Order Management Advisorjoellewis/finance_skillsManage the advisor trade lifecycle from order entry through settlement, covering block trading, allocation, pre-trade compliance, custodian routing, and error correction. Use when the user asks about designing an OMS for an RIA, executing model portfolio changes across many accounts, structuring block trades with fair allocation, configuring pre-trade compliance rules or restricted lists, routing orders to multiple custodians, handling trade errors or corrections, managing cash in trading workflows, or evaluating OMS platforms. Also trigger when users mention 'block trade', 'trade allocation', 'order management system', 'iRebal', 'Orion Trading', 'Tamarac Trading', 'best execution', 'trade error', 'mutual fund vs ETF orders', or 'audit trail'.02Performance Attributionjoellewis/finance_skillsDecompose portfolio returns into explainable components to identify where value was added or lost. Use when the user asks about Brinson attribution, allocation vs selection effects, factor-based attribution, fixed-income attribution, or currency attribution. Also trigger when users mention 'what drove my returns', 'was it stock picking or sector bets', 'alpha decomposition', 'multi-period linking', 'interaction effect', 'active return breakdown', or ask why their portfolio outperformed or underperformed the benchmark.02Performance Metricsjoellewis/finance_skillsEvaluate investment performance on a risk-adjusted basis using industry-standard ratios and capture analysis. Use when the user asks about Sharpe ratio, Sortino ratio, Information Ratio, Treynor ratio, Calmar ratio, Omega ratio, or upside/downside capture. Also trigger when users mention 'risk-adjusted returns', 'return per unit of risk', 'M-squared', 'is this fund worth the volatility', 'how to compare two managers', 'capture ratio', or ask which investment performed better after accounting for risk.02Performance Reportingjoellewis/finance_skillsGenerate clear, accurate performance reports for investment portfolios with benchmarks, attribution, and risk dashboards. Use when the user asks about portfolio performance reports, return summaries, benchmark comparison, risk dashboards, goal progress tracking, or GIPS-compliant reporting. Also trigger when users mention 'quarterly report', 'how did my portfolio do', 'time-weighted vs money-weighted return', 'annualized returns', 'net-of-fee performance', 'rolling Sharpe', or ask how to present investment results to clients.02Portfolio Management Systemsjoellewis/finance_skillsSelect, configure, and operate portfolio management systems for advisory firms, covering model portfolios, UMA/sleeve management, drift monitoring, rebalancing, and custodian data feeds. Use when the user asks about choosing a PMS platform, building or distributing model portfolios, implementing UMA or sleeve-based management, setting drift monitoring thresholds, aggregating held-away assets, reconciling PMS with custodian records, configuring PMS-based billing, or troubleshooting custodian feed issues. Also trigger when users mention 'portfolio management system', 'Orion', 'Black Diamond', 'Tamarac', 'Addepar', 'Advent APX', 'model portfolio', 'sleeve management', 'rebalancing engine', 'custodian feed', or 'PMS migration'.03Post Trade Compliancejoellewis/finance_skillsGuide post-trade compliance monitoring and trade surveillance system design. Use when building alert logic to detect churning, front-running, cherry-picking, layering, spoofing, wash trading, or marking the close, implementing post-trade best execution review, evaluating allocation fairness with pro-rata verification or dispersion analysis, designing exception-based monitoring workflows with escalation paths, correlating trading with MNPI events for insider trading detection, building personal trading surveillance for preclearance and blackout enforcement, determining SAR or blue sheet or CAT reporting triggers, or tuning surveillance thresholds to reduce false positives. Also covers turnover ratios, cost-to-equity ratios, and investigation case management.02Pre Trade Compliancejoellewis/finance_skillsGuide the design and implementation of automated pre-trade compliance systems that validate orders before execution. Use when building a compliance rule engine for an RIA or broker-dealer, configuring hard blocks and soft blocks, maintaining restricted and watch lists including MNPI-driven restrictions, setting concentration limits at security/sector/issuer level, implementing position limits or short selling controls, enforcing wash sale detection or free-riding prevention or pattern day trader identification, applying client-specific ESG screens or legal constraints, designing compliance override workflows with authorization and documentation, backtesting compliance rules, or evaluating compliance check latency impact on execution quality.02Privacy Data Securityjoellewis/finance_skillsDesign and operate privacy and data security programs for SEC-registered firms under Reg S-P, Reg S-ID, and SEC cybersecurity expectations. Use when the user asks about privacy notices, the Safeguards Rule, identity theft prevention programs, breach notification obligations, vendor security due diligence, incident response planning, data classification, or state privacy law compliance. Also trigger when users mention 'customer data was exposed', 'do we need to notify clients of a breach', 'cybersecurity exam prep', 'cloud vendor risk assessment', 'encrypting client data', 'BYOD security policy', 'Red Flags Rule', 'NY DFS 500 requirements', or ask how to handle a cybersecurity incident.01Proposal Generationjoellewis/finance_skillsGenerate end-to-end investment proposals covering risk profiling, model portfolio recommendation, fee illustration, projections, and compliance review. Use when the user asks about creating a proposal for a prospect, mapping risk questionnaire scores to model portfolios, building fee illustrations with tiered costs, producing Monte Carlo or scenario projections, analyzing a prospect's current portfolio for improvement opportunities, reviewing proposals for SEC Marketing Rule compliance, or designing proposal templates for a multi-advisor firm. Also trigger when users mention 'investment proposal', 'proposal generation', 'risk profiling', 'Riskalyze', 'Nitrogen', 'fee illustration', 'transition analysis', 'current vs proposed portfolio', or 'proposal compliance review'.02Qualitative Valuationjoellewis/finance_skillsAssess business quality, competitive positioning, and sustainability of value creation beyond financial models. Use when the user asks about economic moats, competitive advantages, Porter's Five Forces, management quality, ESG integration, or business model analysis. Also trigger when users mention 'does this company have a moat', 'switching costs', 'network effects', 'brand value', 'management track record', 'capital allocation', 'insider ownership', 'red flags', or ask whether a company's advantage is durable.01Quantitative Valuationjoellewis/finance_skillsEstimate intrinsic value of stocks and companies using DCF, dividend discount models, comparable multiples, and residual income. Use when the user asks about discounted cash flow, DCF models, WACC, terminal value, dividend discount models, comparable multiples, or sum-of-the-parts valuation. Also trigger when users mention 'what is this stock worth', 'fair value estimate', 'Gordon growth model', 'free cash flow valuation', 'cost of equity', 'sensitivity analysis', 'exit multiple', or ask whether a stock is overvalued or undervalued.02Real Assetsjoellewis/finance_skillsAnalyze real estate and infrastructure investments including REITs, direct property valuation, and infrastructure assets. Use when the user asks about real estate investing, REITs, cap rates, NOI, FFO, AFFO, property valuation, or infrastructure investments. Also trigger when users mention 'rental property analysis', 'cash-on-cash return', 'gross rent multiplier', 'REIT dividends', 'real estate sectors', 'cell towers', 'toll roads', 'LTV ratio', 'DSCR', or ask whether to invest in real estate directly or through REITs.02Rebalancingjoellewis/finance_skillsMaintain portfolio allocations over time using calendar-based, threshold-based, and tax-efficient rebalancing strategies. Use when the user asks about when to rebalance, rebalancing bands, transaction cost trade-offs, tax-efficient rebalancing, or the rebalancing premium. Also trigger when users mention 'my portfolio drifted', 'how often should I rebalance', 'rebalancing across taxable and IRA accounts', 'volatility harvesting', 'buy low sell high automatically', or ask whether to use cash flows to rebalance.02Reconciliationjoellewis/finance_skillsDesign and operate reconciliation processes across portfolio management, custodian, and clearing systems. Use when building a daily position, cash, or transaction reconciliation process, investigating discrepancies between internal records and custodian records, diagnosing recurring break patterns from corporate actions or pricing differences, setting tolerance thresholds for position, cash, or market value matching, implementing three-way reconciliation, designing break investigation workflows with aging and escalation, normalizing multi-custodian feeds from Schwab, Fidelity, or Pershing, reconciling cost basis or accrued income, or preparing for examinations on books and records accuracy.02Reference Datajoellewis/finance_skillsDesign and manage reference data systems — security master, client master, account master, identifier mapping, pricing data sources, golden source designation, and governance. Use when building or evaluating a security master database, mapping identifiers across systems (CUSIP to ISIN, SEDOL to FIGI), designing client master models for onboarding or KYC, defining account master attributes across custodians, designating golden sources and MDM patterns across systems, establishing a pricing vendor hierarchy with fallback order, establishing reference data governance and stewardship, handling identifier changes from corporate actions, or troubleshooting issues traced to missing or changed identifiers. Trigger on: security master, CUSIP, ISIN, SEDOL, FIGI, client master, account master, pricing data, reference data, golden source, MDM, master data, identifier mapping, data governance, vendor hierarchy.01Reg Bijoellewis/finance_skillsAnalyze the broker-dealer standard of conduct under SEC Regulation Best Interest's four obligations: Disclosure, Care, Conflict of Interest, and Compliance. Owns what triggers a 'recommendation' under Reg BI and the canonical comparison of Reg BI vs FINRA suitability vs IA fiduciary duty. Use when the user asks whether a broker-dealer recommendation satisfies Reg BI, how to evaluate reasonably available alternatives, rollover recommendation compliance, dual-registrant capacity disclosure, share class or account type recommendations, or Reg BI examination preparation. Also trigger when users mention 'best interest standard for brokers', 'is this a Reg BI recommendation', 'care obligation documentation', 'sales contest elimination requirement', or ask how Reg BI differs from suitability or fiduciary duty. (For the IA fiduciary duty itself and DOL rules, use fiduciary-standards.)01Regulatory Reportingjoellewis/finance_skillsGuide regulatory filing mechanics and deadlines for investment advisers, broker-dealers, and large traders — which forms to file, where, and by when. Use when the user asks about Form PF filing thresholds, 13F institutional holdings reports, 13H large trader filings, Form ADV amendment filing timing (including the annual updating amendment filed via IARD), FOCUS report preparation, blue sheet requests, CAT reporting infrastructure, or FINRA short interest and TRACE reporting. Also trigger when users mention 'filing deadline calendar', 'do we need to file Form PF', 'crossed the $100M 13F threshold', 'CAT clock synchronization', 'how to respond to a blue sheet request', or 'FOCUS report errors'. (For what the ADV brochure must contain and when it must be delivered to clients, use client-disclosures.)02Return Calculationsjoellewis/finance_skillsCompute and compare investment return metrics including TWR, MWR (dollar-weighted IRR on portfolio cash flows), CAGR, and annualized returns. Use when the user asks about portfolio performance calculation, comparing manager returns, linking sub-period returns, understanding why different return methods give different numbers, converting returns across time periods, or computing the IRR of an investor's own contributions and withdrawals. Also trigger when users mention 'how much did I make', 'annual return', 'compound growth', 'dollar-weighted vs time-weighted', 'what was my rate of return', 'geometric vs arithmetic mean', 'log returns', or ask about the effect of cash flows on reported returns. For project or loan IRR, NPV, and generic 'solve for the rate' problems, use time-value-of-money instead.02Sales Practicesjoellewis/finance_skillsIdentify and prevent sales practice violations under FINRA and SEC rules governing broker-dealer conduct. Use when the user asks about churning or excessive trading metrics, mutual fund breakpoint discounts, selling away or private securities transactions, outside business activities, unauthorized trading, supervisory procedure design, senior investor protections, trusted contact persons, variable annuity suitability, or options account approval. Also trigger when users mention 'turnover ratio is high', 'rep did trades without authorization', 'breakpoint abuse', 'trusted contact for elderly client', 'selling away from the firm', 'supervision failure', '1035 exchange review', 'marking the close', or ask whether a broker's conduct violates FINRA rules.01Savings Goalsjoellewis/finance_skillsPlan and track savings for specific financial goals including retirement, education, and home purchase. Use when the user asks about required savings rates, 529 plans, retirement accumulation targets, down payment planning, or goal prioritization. Also trigger when users mention 'how much do I need to save each month', 'am I on track for retirement', 'college savings', 'safe withdrawal rate', '4% rule', 'FIRE savings rate', 'catch-up contributions', 'employer match', or ask how to balance competing savings goals.02Settlement Clearingjoellewis/finance_skillsGuide the understanding and management of trade settlement and clearing processes. Use when designing settlement workflows for T+1 compliance, understanding DTC/NSCC/FICC clearing infrastructure, analyzing continuous net settlement (CNS) netting obligations, setting up institutional trade processing (affirmation, confirmation, allocation, matching), investigating settlement fails and designing fail reduction programs, implementing buy-in procedures under Reg SHO Rule 204, assessing corporate action impact on pending settlements, evaluating DVP/RVP mechanics for institutional deliveries, handling when-issued or as-of trades, or managing settlement bank relationships and intraday liquidity. Also covers FX funding gaps for cross-border T+1 settlement.02Statistics Fundamentalsjoellewis/finance_skillsApply statistical methods to financial data including descriptive statistics, covariance estimation, regression, hypothesis testing, and resampling. Use when the user asks about return distributions, correlation between assets, building a covariance matrix, running a CAPM regression, testing whether alpha is significant, checking if returns are normal, or estimating confidence intervals. Also trigger when users mention 'volatility', 'how correlated are these', 'fat tails', 'skewness', 'R-squared', 'beta of a fund', 'bootstrap a Sharpe ratio', 'shrinkage estimator', 'Ledoit-Wolf', or ask why their optimizer produces unstable weights.02Stp Automationjoellewis/finance_skillsMeasure and raise straight-through processing (STP) rates in securities operations through zero-touch, exception-based processing. Use when measuring STP rates and analyzing manual touchpoints in an existing process, replacing review-all workflows with exception-based processing, evaluating RPA vs API-based vs hybrid automation for legacy systems, building exception queuing, categorization, and auto-resolution workflows, conducting process mining or root cause analysis on exception volumes, or setting STP rate targets and continuous improvement programs. For approval chains, four-eyes controls, and SLA monitoring, see workflow-automation.02Tax Efficiencyjoellewis/finance_skillsMaximizes after-tax returns through strategic asset location, gain/loss management, and withdrawal sequencing. Use when the user asks about asset location, Roth conversions, tax-efficient withdrawals, tax lot selection, or charitable giving with appreciated securities. Also trigger when users mention 'which account should I hold bonds in', 'tax drag', 'Roth vs Traditional', 'RMD planning', 'bracket stuffing', 'HIFO vs FIFO', or ask how to minimize taxes on investments. For tax-loss harvesting execution and wash-sale mechanics, see the tax-loss-harvesting skill.02Tax Loss Harvestingjoellewis/finance_skillsExecute a complete tax-loss harvesting workflow from candidate identification through post-harvest monitoring. Use when the user asks about finding TLH candidates, gain/loss budgeting, replacement security selection, wash-sale compliance, or harvest execution planning. Also trigger when users mention 'unrealized losses in my portfolio', 'swap ETFs for tax purposes', 'harvest losses before year-end', 'substantially identical security', 'wash-sale window', 'NIIT offset', 'loss carryforward', or ask how much tax they can save by harvesting.01Time Value Of Moneyjoellewis/finance_skillsCalculate present value, future value, NPV, IRR for projects and loans, loan payments, and amortization schedules across all compounding conventions. Use when the user asks about discounting cash flows, valuing an annuity or perpetuity, comparing investments with different timing, building a mortgage amortization table, evaluating whether a project is worth pursuing, or solving for the rate that equates cash flows (project IRR, loan IRR, yield on an investment). Also trigger when users mention 'what is it worth today', 'how much will I have in 20 years', 'monthly payment on a loan', 'discount rate', 'Gordon growth model', 'effective annual rate', 'continuous compounding', or ask how to compare a lump sum versus a stream of payments. For portfolio money-weighted return (dollar-weighted IRR on an investor's contributions and withdrawals), use return-calculations instead.02Trade Executionjoellewis/finance_skillsGuide the design, evaluation, and monitoring of trade execution quality and best execution practices. Use when assessing best execution obligations under FINRA Rule 5310 or RIA fiduciary duty, designing smart order routing across exchanges and dark pools, selecting execution algorithms (VWAP, TWAP, implementation shortfall, POV), building transaction cost analysis (TCA) for pre-trade estimation or post-trade measurement, analyzing bid-ask spread decomposition or market impact or information leakage, conducting best execution committee reviews, evaluating payment for order flow (PFOF) arrangements, interpreting Rule 605/606 reports, or handling fixed income or ETF execution via RFQ protocols. Also covers Reg NMS Order Protection Rule and venue fee structures.02Volatility Modelingjoellewis/finance_skillsModel, forecast, and interpret volatility using time-series models and options-implied measures. Use when the user asks about EWMA, GARCH models, implied volatility, volatility surfaces, volatility term structure, or the VIX. Also trigger when users mention 'volatility smile', 'volatility skew', 'realized vs implied vol', 'volatility risk premium', 'vol clustering', 'mean-reverting volatility', 'options pricing inputs', 'RiskMetrics', 'decay factor', or ask how to forecast future volatility for risk management.02Workflow Automationjoellewis/finance_skillsDesign human-in-the-loop workflow orchestration for securities operations: task routing, approval chains, and SLA monitoring. Use when building multi-level approval chains with dollar thresholds and delegation of authority, enforcing four-eyes (maker-checker) controls, defining escalation rules for aging work items approaching SLA breach, designing human-in-the-loop gates, selecting a workflow engine or BPM platform (Camunda, Pega, ServiceNow), modeling a process as a state machine, adding audit trails for SEC Rule 17a-3/17a-4 or FINRA supervisory obligations, or migrating from email-and-spreadsheet tracking. For zero-touch automation rates and STP measurement, see stp-automation.02
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