May 5, 2019 - DAVID BAHNSEN (financial advisor / author) and DAN SCHUR (political advisor)

Summary: DAVID BAHNSEN (financial advisor / author) and DAN SCHUR (political advisor) David L. Bahnsen is the founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of The Bahnsen Group, a bi-coastal private wealth management firm with offices in Newport Beach, CA and New York City, managing over $1.5 billion in client assets. David is consistently named as one of the top financial advisors in America by Barron's, Forbes, and the Financial Times. He brought The Bahnsen Group independent in April 2015 after eight years as a Chairman's Club Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and seven years as a First Vice President at UBS Financial Services. David is a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox Business and is a regular contributor to National Review and Forbes. David serves on the Board of Directors for the National Review Institute and is a founding Trustee for Pacifica Christian High School of Orange County. He is the author of the book, Crisis of Responsibility: Our Cultural Addiction to Blame and How You Can Cure It (Post Hill Press). His new book, The Case for Dividend Growth: Investing in a Post-Crisis World (Post Hill Press), releases April 9, 2019. David's true passions include anything related to USC football, the financial markets, politics, and his house in the desert. His ultimate passions are his lovely wife of 17+ years, Joleen, their gorgeous and brilliant children, sons Mitchell and Graham, and daughter Sadie, and the life they've created together on both coasts. Also joining us on the show this week is our Special Guest - professor and political advisor - Dan Schnur! Dan Schnur is a Professor at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communications, the University of California - Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies and Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy. He is the founder of the USC/LA Times statewide political poll. Dan is currently the director of the Sacramento Bee's "California Influencers" series, an election-year project in which he leads a weekly online conversation between 60 of the state's most respected experts in politics, government and public policy regarding the issues that are shaping the midterm elections (www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/influencers/). Previously, Dan worked on four presidential and three gubernatorial campaigns as one of California's leading political strategists. He served as the national Director of Communications for the 2000 presidential campaign of U.S. Senator John McCain and was the chief media spokesman for California Governor Pete Wilson. In 2010, Dan was appointed Chairman of the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), where he implemented groundbreaking campaign finance disclosure requirements. Dan's commentaries have appeared in several newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Sacramento Bee, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. In addition, he has been an analyst and political commentator for CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and National Public Radio.