A Bank CEO on 'the Single Greatest Branding Decision We've Ever Made'
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Isn't home where we all want to be? |
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| 0:25.8 | listings every month based on average new for sale and rental listings, July 24 to June 2025. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello everyone and welcome to At Bairns. I'm Andy Surwer and welcome to our guest, Scott Adelson, |
| 0:40.3 | CEO of Houlihan Loki. Scott, great to see you. Thanks for joining us. Thank you for having Andy. |
| 0:44.9 | So Hulahan Loki is a moderate size investment banking business. What does that mean in practical terms? What do you guys do? |
| 0:55.0 | So consider ourselves one of the independent investment banks and there are a handful of us that are public companies. |
| 1:02.0 | We happen to be the largest of them. And it is basically think of no balance sheet, typically, no sales and trading operations. |
| 1:11.3 | It is an advisory focused, in our case global investment bank. |
| 1:15.2 | We're focused in a few areas, mergers and acquisitions, raising capital almost exclusively |
| 1:22.2 | or predominantly private capital, financial restructuring, and then our legacy business of many years ago, |
| 1:28.3 | which is all around financial advisory services. |
| 1:30.3 | Right. |
| 1:31.3 | What does that mean financial advisory services? |
| 1:33.3 | There's different components to it, financial opinions, portfolio valuations, very important |
| 1:38.3 | today as more and more illiquid securities needing marks on those securities around the world. |
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